Tire slime: Whats your opinion?

[svauto-erotic855]

I filled all of my work trucks tires with slime and ABSOLUTELY will never use it again. In the morning the trucks would shake like hell until the stuff got spread around the inside of the tire and it would shake like hell after every stop. In colder weather it was even worse. I had to have 28 tires dismounted and I wiped out the slime with paper towels. Cost me a fortune in time and aggravation.

[bcoop]

You're so stupid you never even understood that thread lol.

The only person who never understood that thread is you, Corky. And yes, the dumb is very strong in here. It's all coming from your keyboard.

[46Tbird]

Bingo. Sand works too, it's an old trick for balancing bias plys.

[CJ]

In theory, yeah. In practice it doesn't work that way. Any bump in the road will disturb the distribution of liquid mass and you will have an imbalance.

If this really worked, filling tires with water/goo would be standard practice.

Justin, pull all the weights off your wheels, fill the tires up with Slime, and give us a report.

It's true hitting a bump can knock it out of balance, but only momentarily as it will return to balance. I balance large off road tires with airsoft BB's, it works great. Slime has excessive friction as I mentioned before, only completely fluid objects would work.

[46Tbird]

a liquid or fluid object in a tire will automatically balance itself. That's assuming it doesn't have excessive or uneven friction.

In theory, yeah. In practice it doesn't work that way. Any bump in the road will disturb the distribution of liquid mass and you will have an imbalance.

If this really worked, filling tires with water/goo would be standard practice.

Justin, pull all the weights off your wheels, fill the tires up with Slime, and give us a report.

[slostang281]

You're so stupid you never even understood that thread lol. The dumb is strong in this thread. I guess you guys aren't familiar with modern tire balancing equipment. At all. So piss off. I come here to talk to those who actually know what they're talking about. Not you dollar store clerks.

You're absolutely correct about the dumb being strong in this thread, it's you. Modern balancers are going to give the same outcome as the first type of balancers. They're never going to balance a tire with slime, fixaflat, etc because the product does not stay in place. It will never distribute itself evenly. I have dealt with that stuff more times than I would like working in dealerships and having to work on cars because there was a vibration due to tires not being balanced. Now, I will go out of my league and actually talk about something I don't know shit about and suggest you to go to MHMR to see if they can help you. I don't know if MHMR can really help you or not but they will point you to the right direction.

[Fry86]

I used to work at discount tire and the reason were hate the stuff its because it gets over everything when you break the tire down! However I have seen it start eating rims but they were steel rims. I wouldn't use it simply for that reason! The only way it can throw off the balance is if you glue a can our box full on one side. Other than that a liquid will not affect the balance enough to ever notice

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[SMEGMA STENCH]

Not according to these guys lol

[CJ]

a liquid or fluid object in a tire will automatically balance itself. That's assuming it doesn't have excessive or uneven friction.

[SMEGMA STENCH]

um yeah, that would work great as long as you point your finger and tell the slime to stay in one spot. Another post for the Stray idea thread?

The stuff works good in tubes but not so well in tubeless tires.

You're so stupid you never even understood that thread lol. The dumb is strong in this thread. I guess you guys aren't familiar with modern tire balancing equipment. At all. So piss off. I come here to talk to those who actually know what they're talking about. Not you dollar store clerks.

[Lason]

Always ran it in my ATV tires with good luck but wouldnt use it in tires that are balanced as mentioned above.

[slostang281]

This is probly me thinking too much, but what if you balanced the tire with the slime stuff already in it? It would be nice to be able to have that stuff in an automotive tire if possible.

um yeah, that would work great as long as you point your finger and tell the slime to stay in one spot. Another post for the Stray idea thread?

The stuff works good in tubes but not so well in tubeless tires.

[Reefer Rae]

Yet another failed IQ test is on the books .

[46Tbird]

This is probly me thinking too much, but what if you balanced the tire with the slime stuff already in it? It would be nice to be able to have that stuff in an automotive tire if possible.

Fluid dynamics isn't your strongest subject, is it?

[TEAMJACOB]

What if you just melted the tire down to a liquid and stirred in the slime with a mixed out of the kitchen. Then put it in a giant cake molding of some sort to let it solidify. Then had it balanced