$5440 per pound lead

Went to the truck stop the other day, to get the oil changed on my Class 8 International.

As I was waiting (interminably, it always seems) I wandered around the parking lot. I found this -
https://i.imgur.com/SaAkbSj.jpg

A one ounce stick-on weight.

They gave me the oil change and lube free, but the wheel weight cost $340.

That's $5440/lb.

I don't think I can afford their lead anymore....

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Thats not so bad. It could have been repair work on the engine or transmission!

Just imagine that weight coming loose off a rim at about 65 MPH and whizzing across the 4 lane at other traffic?Robert

That looks like a steel stick on wheel weight to me.

Hey, if you had found two of them with that oil change they would only be $2720/lb.

Same here I took a lawn mower tire the other day to get repaired and found 5 buckets of old wheel weights, that repair cost $115.00, next time will just buy new tire. But I wouldn’t have these beautiful wheel weights, oh well.

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Originally Posted by Hardcast416taylor

Just imagine that weight coming loose off a rim at about 65 MPH and whizzing across the 4 lane at other traffic?Robert

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I saw a weight going through the air one morning on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Problem was it was still attached to the truck tire and rim. I stood on the brakes and watched it go through someone else's windshield. Welcome to the City.

How did you have to pay for the weight?

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Originally Posted by ioon44

That looks like a steel stick on wheel weight to me.

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Good eye! It does look like a steel weight.

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Originally Posted by Buzzard II

I saw a weight going through the air one morning on the Cross Bronx Expressway. Problem was it was still attached to the truck tire and rim. I stood on the brakes and watched it go through someone else's windshield. Welcome to the City.

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Cross Bronx Expressway are three words that make me cringe even though it is better today than in the past. I drove through there in the 1980's when the pavement had ruts worn in it and changing lanes at speed was dangerous on dry pavement; downright terrifying in the rain. In those days burned out cars and debris littered the shoulder. It looked like the scene out of a Mad Max movie.

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Originally Posted by lightman

Good eye! It does look like a steel weight.

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I bent it with my bare hands. I'm either as strong as Superman, or it's lead. I know which way I'm betting.:bigsmyl2:

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Originally Posted by Bookworm

I bent it with my bare hands. I'm either as strong as Superman, or it's lead. I know which way I'm betting.:bigsmyl2:

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I guess the picture fooled me! I doubt you would bend a steel weight that small bare handed!