Weight of an alloy rim and tyre?

[gavinwibrow]

To save me taking my spare off to weigh, can anyone tell me the approximate weight of a 16" alloy rim plus tyre? I'm trying to get a set of 5 transported from Adelaide to Fremantle. I'm assuming compressed air won't make much difference if the tyres haven't gone flat in the interim!!!
Cheers Gavin

[PhilipA]

Range Rover classic ones with 205x16 tyres weigh 23.5 Kg so probably about 25Kg. so freight will probably go on dimensions.
Regards Philip A

[brenno]

I've not weighed mine, but I've changed a couple recently. I think a reasonable weight would be around 20-25kg per wheel if they are standard tyres.

Factoring in the weight of a pallet, assuming they'll be strapped to one, 200kg for the lot would be in the ballpark I reckon.

Try GKR Transport or WA Freightlines for the transport side of things.

[twr7cx]

Try e-go too I think ego.com.au is the address. They're a division of HUnter Express.

[brougham]

I've got 5 18" tyres coming from tirerack at the moment and the shipping bill lists it as 84kg. That's rubber only.

[Franz]

To save me taking my spare off to weigh, can anyone tell me the approximate weight of a 16" alloy rim plus tyre? I'm trying to get a set of 5 transported from Adelaide to Fremantle. I'm assuming compressed air won't make much difference if the tyres haven't gone flat in the interim!!!
Cheers Gavin
20-25 kg sounded light to me and I had 43 kg in my head - so, I checked and weighed a wheel (265/75 tyres on 8" alloy rim)

Try 47 kgs.

Cheers,

Franz

[PhilipA]

Are you sure your scales are correct?
According to my admitted bathroom scales a 750x16 on a Toyota split rim only weighs 45KG.
And I weighed a 245x75x16LT BFG AT on a RRC alloy at 23.5Kg.And RRC alloys are HEAVY .
I also measured the alloy at 10Kg vs a steel Disco 1 wheel at 13Kg.
Regards Philip A

[gavinwibrow]

20-25 kg sounded light to me and I had 43 kg in my head - so, I checked and weighed a wheel (265/75 tyres on 8" alloy rim)

Try 47 kgs.

Cheers,

Franz
Many thanks Franz - I'm not surprised - heavy to lift!! In light of other comments I'll measure my spare rim which is an 8" six spoke - effectively a range rover lend I understand.

[Franz]

Are you sure your scales are correct?
According to my admitted bathroom scales a 750x16 on a Toyota split rim only weighs 45KG.
And I weighed a 245x75x16LT BFG AT on a RRC alloy at 23.5Kg.And RRC alloys are HEAVY .
I also measured the alloy at 10Kg vs a steel Disco 1 wheel at 13Kg.
Regards Philip A
I also used bathroom scales and I'm reasonably sure they're correct. As I said, I had 43kg in the back of my head from when I weighed them on decent scales. 265/75 MT's will weigh a fair bit more than 245 AT's.

[PhilipA]

Tirerack site lists a 265 75 16 LT BFG ATKO as 24Kg , so given maybe 10-15Kg for a wheel , the weight lies somewhere between our two extremes methinks.
Any way I know they are bloody heavy to lift onto the rear carrier on my D2.
Regards Philip A

[gavinwibrow]

Well my alloy wheel is 12K, so add 24K to that for the tyre (thanks Philip A)= 36k in total.
Now to get some transport quotes.