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Bookworm
08-04-2019, 11:00 AM
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....
Petrol & Powder
08-04-2019, 11:09 AM
:bigsmyl2:
lightman
08-04-2019, 11:55 AM
Thats not so bad. It could have been repair work on the engine or transmission!
Hardcast416taylor
08-04-2019, 12:02 PM
Just imagine that weight coming loose off a rim at about 65 MPH and whizzing across the 4 lane at other traffic?Robert
ioon44
08-05-2019, 08:51 AM
That looks like a steel stick on wheel weight to me.
Petrol & Powder
08-05-2019, 09:26 AM
Hey, if you had found two of them with that oil change they would only be $2720/lb.
Hossfly
08-05-2019, 10:29 AM
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.
Buzzard II
08-17-2019, 08:26 PM
Just imagine that weight coming loose off a rim at about 65 MPH and whizzing across the 4 lane at other traffic?Robert

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.
smithnframe
08-18-2019, 07:56 AM
How did you have to pay for the weight?
lightman
08-18-2019, 10:07 AM
That looks like a steel stick on wheel weight to me.

Good eye! It does look like a steel weight.
Petrol & Powder
08-18-2019, 10:41 AM
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.
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.
Bookworm
08-18-2019, 11:34 AM
Good eye! It does look like a steel weight.

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:
lightman
08-18-2019, 01:39 PM
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:

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