What is that?
Wheel weights. Their wheels will be unbalanced, meaning their steering will vibrate at certain speeds, depending on what the new balance is.
It’s not unsafe per se, at least not primarily. It’s annoying as fuck tho.
Holy shit my brother I had seen these things for years, thrown in the ground and always figured they had something to do with cars, only didn’t know WHAT. you sir have scratched that mental itch and my brain lobes are forever thankful
Hahaha no worries!
Is that literally why they exist? To fuck with people?
They are used to balance tires, but only one or a few in the right locations.
Aaaah
Haha no, wheels and tires can’t be produced balanced consistently. So after the tire is put on the wheel, you put those weights on to balance them.
No, they are used to balance wheels and tires that are out of balance.
When a new tire is mounted on a wheel, it has to be balanced on a machine that spins it, locates the light side, operator adds weights to make it balance.
Nope. If you walk past cars you will often see this.
My car has a few one one of the rims
I got a flat tire and needed to replace the tires. Since I was going to get new tires soon anyway my quick replacement was a used tire different from my others.
My car was unbalanced and it felt so weird, had to keep checking if I got another flat because the vibration feeling was so off.
Oh shit. I had an old beater that would shake apart at certain rpms. It was a hand me down that I drove into the ground and didn’t spend money on, so I never got it inspected. Didn’t know the solution was so easy.
You could randomly stick weights on it and slowly figure out of if you really wanted to.
To balance a tire properly you need a bubble balancer.
/c/fuckcars would love this
!fuckcars@lemmy.world exists!
Ohhh the syntax for tagging subs is an exclamation point?
Yep, and I the web UI it also autocompletes so much easier. Not sure about all the apps though
Doesn’t auto complete on Liftoff.
On connect it renders your link excluding the exclamation mark, but the other one includes it as a part of the link… Odd
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Yeah, sounds like a YOU issue tbh…
It’s their fault for parking illegally.
Buy a fuck load of wheel weights here: https://www.ebay.com/itm/233731184483
Nice try, eBay wheel weight merchant.
Remove tire from rim, place shot put in tire and remount, victory.
I’ve been spending too much time on noncredibledefense, I thought they were ERA blocks at first glance.
Well, they can be… just not very good ERA blocks…
Anyone getting the urge to steal these and sell them
Mess up their handling so they lose control and hit somebody? This is totally f*cked up.
Not sure if you’re trying to be funny, but in case someone thinks you are being serious_ Unbalanced tyres will not cause someone to lose control. They’ll get a little vibration feedback through the steering wheel, which may even be felt by passengers.
This is an extremely unlikely outcome, but no reasonable person would be tampering with other people’s cars after seeing a meme on lemmy anyway. We’re just telling jokes here.
Can’t even tell wtf I’m looking at. Terrible meme
Git gud at mémé understandment, pleb.
Defenition of a skill issue.
They didn’t know what it was, that isn’t a skill issue, just good old fashioned ignorance.
Meanwhile, you failed to spell “definition” correctly, which is a skill issue.
Whoosh
I disagree with them about it being terrible too; but I think it’s an issue of ignorance, not skill. I didn’t know what it was either, but thankfully the kind people up at the top comments answered an asker! ^^
You could have googled it in less words
What words would someone search if they had no idea what was in the image?
https://www.google.com/search?q=metal+squares+on+car+wheel
“metal squares on car wheel” does it right away.
