My Nightmare Experience After Fitting New Alloy Wheels In Sri Lanka

[Sampath Gunasekera]

Thanks for sharing your experience. This was new to me. Below article explains technical side of it in simple terms.

http://tires.about.com/od/understanding_wheels/a/hub-centric-vs-lug-centric-wheels.htm

Thanks for sharing the link.

Edited September 24, 2013 by Sampath Gunasekera

[Komisiripala]

umm bit off topic, as this thread is about "balance" i'll ask here.

When aligning your wheels, AKA wheel alignment, do you guys prefer manual alignment or the computer one?

i prefer manual for the facts that the stock camber ratios in the teg are either not found in most of the machines here, and the places that had them, they were wrong. even for the civic, which i didn't mod, this happened. i did an automated adjustment, and wore out my tires in a matter of weeks. then checked the computer figures with the factory settings. way off. clearly our alignment guys with the hi fi equipment don't know their shi'ite. and secondly, it differs now when the car is lowered.

[Magnum]

i prefer manual for the facts that the stock camber ratios in the teg are either not found in most of the machines here, and the places that had them, they were wrong. even for the civic, which i didn't mod, this happened. i did an automated adjustment, and wore out my tires in a matter of weeks. then checked the computer figures with the factory settings. way off. clearly our alignment guys with the hi fi equipment don't know their shi'ite. and secondly, it differs now when the car is lowered.

Same here, tried the automatic adjustment once and wasnt successful, the car was veering towards a side. so since i always go for manual one. probably automatic adjustment only works well for new cars