Member Since: 21 Apr 2008
Location: Antwerpen
Posts: 2
Balancing weights
Hi all, this is my first post. Really like the site, besides the useful information it can be quite entertaining as well. Have been reading and browsing on here quite a lot since a few months.
Now my little rant.
Picked up my set of new winter tyres (Vredestein Wintrac) from the dealer yesterday. Today when I started fitting them, I found cracks in two of the balancing weights both on the left side of the car. A third wheel has a weight which is losely fitted. Called the dealer and told him about the sloppy job, also sent him the photos.
He said it would hold and if one would brake off I would just get 'some' vibration in the steering. As we are about to drive to Switserland for a holiday next week, I told him I was not taking any chances.
Going to another shop tomorrow and getting some stick-on/glued weights on, cost 8 Euros per wheel. The original dealer offered to put it right but as he's about 200km away and considering the poor quality of the weights, I politely thanked him for the offer. Still, he told me he would refund me 16 Euros for the two wheels affected.
Now I need to find out to add the photos.
Well, that seems to have worked out well, thanks to Martin's 'Very quick guide to posting gallery pictures to the forum'.
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and told him about the sloppy job, also sent him the photos.
