Mazda Miata: wheel balance question

In article <66dFc.9710$texas.rr.com>,
pws <rr.com> wrote:
 

Yes.

--
Lanny Chambers, St. Louis, USA
'94C
the alignment page:
http://www.hummingbirds.net/alignment.html

the better the wheels and the better the tires, the more likely true balance
w/o weights.

Chris
92BB&T

"Lanny Chambers" <net> wrote in message
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Chris D'Agnolo wrote: 

This is just a Yoko EVS-100 on a 2001 rim, the pair must have good
specs, there are weights on the other three wheels. What I am wondering
is, if the tire and wheel manufacturers can get it right one time, why
can't that be standard? I don't know a lot about tire making, but it
seems like it would be possible to produce both wheels and tires
consistently with no heavy spots (especially when both are brand new). I
am guessing that it is a cost issue.


Pat
'96M

pws wrote:
 

It's also possible that both your wheel and tire have
imperfections that perfectly cancel, regardless of process
control.

How do you like those ES100s? I put a set on my '02 SE
and they're certainly noisy, especially in turns. They
seem to perform quite well, though. I've only driven in
the dry with them.

Dana

Dana Myers wrote:
 

I highly recommend the Yokohama ES100s, though I agree that they are a
bit noisy. They do perform well in the dry, but they are also a very
nice rain tire, as I found out after it rained during most of June here.
I really liked the price as well.

Pat
'96M

Say Pat, After all this, if you still want some "wheel weights", I can
send you some. :-) I have a large box of them and you can just go put
some on that wheel so that it will bounce., You can take them off and
you will know that it didn't need them and feel a lot better about it.
:-) :-) (just in fun)

Bruce RED '91 ( I have spent hours with a wheel balancing
machine to try to get to "zero" !! What a job!!!!! ) (No mater how
many wheels and tires I tried to use, the "darn" machine still weighs
too much !!!! :-)

pws wrote:

 

The ES100s really do seem to offer not only excellent bang:buck
but very good performance regardless of price. The noise isn't
normally an issue since I drive top-down almost all of the time.

It probably won't rain until November here...

So - what tire pressure are you running in yours? I'm at
30psi-ish right now and that seems to be about right, but
I haven't experimented much yet.

Cheers,
Dana

BRUCE HASKIN wrote:
 

This would not be the first time that I tracked down a non-existant car
problem and made things worse by "fixing" it. ;-)

Pat
'96M