"Steve Bigelow" <stevebigelowXXX@rogers.com> wrote in
news:f6ydnbwhPIDdbMrfRVn-jg@rogers.com:

> If you can find a tire weight table...and a bathroom scale....

Tire Rack posts the weights of the tires and rims that they sell. That
is not the problem.

The problem is that neither the dealership nor auto maker know what the
weight is of the original equipment steel wheels on the car.

If you don't know your starting point, it's impossible to figure out
what the "difference" will be between the weight of the OE wheels and
the aftermarket alloys being considered.

Of course I could figure this out myself by going to a service station,
having them pull a wheel off the car, break the tire off the rim, call
a taxi, carry the wheel home, weigh it on my balance beam scales, take
the taxi back, remount and rebalance the tire, BUT ...

Wouldn't it be a lot easier if someone that already knew this
information simply volunteered it?

It would save me a lot of effort anyways, and that's what sharing
information on usenet's newsgroups is all about.

-- CL.

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