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Old 08-15-2014, 01:15 AM   #82 (permalink)
j-rho
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In the new Camaro Z28, Chevrolet marketing got some mileage out of how they're texturing the wheel bead surface to keep the tire from rotating too much on the wheel:
Camaro Z/28 is so grippy GM had to find way to keep tires from slipping on wheels - Autoblog
In reality this sort of thing has been happening on hard-driven cars for a long time. So if you have a tire-based imbalance, there's not much help in balancing if you have sticky tires you'll push hard.

An inherently unbalanced wheel, I suppose it could help, but balancing isn't usually done that way, and the tire has a much greater impact on the balance of the overall package.

But to each their own...
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