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.
Nope. If you walk past cars you will often see this.
My car has a few one one of the rims
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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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.
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…
Can’t even tell wtf I’m looking at. Terrible meme
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
Mess up their handling so they lose control and hit somebody? This is totally f*cked up.
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.
