I'm not highly charged about this as others here because there is already an alternative and it will be replaced with other metals. Not a big deal.

IIRC, there is a ban on a material used in brake pads coming out too. Being the ingenious humans we are, we'll probably find a better substance to use in pads that may be even better.

As long as there are alternatives, I'm okay. It's when there is no alternative or at least not yet and there is government regulation prohibiting something is when we should get up in arms.

 

+1

 

You guys balance your wheels? So that's what I've been doing wrong.

 

Only the steering wheel. It's the key to driving flatout.









Professional Racing and Driving Coach

 

You guys should see how much lead weights my dealership goes through a year. The non led weights work just fine and the same as the lead ones do. Lead and oxide is a bitch. Unless the weights are carefully sorted out and recycled they can end up in the dump or being burned in trash burning power plants. This is the end result of a lead weight that ends up in the trash around here. it gwets burned up and goes into the air where it ends up in the water soil and food.

 

Around here, lead weights are gone. The substitute is physically larger and twice as expensive.

 

As wheels spin atoms of lead fly off into the atmosphere and we breath them in and die. It is a good thing our government is on top of this problem.

 

Ecology 101 guys, think about it: the lead weights eventually get into our waterways and thus we end up drinking it. Or fish end up living in high-lead waters, and then we eat them. So it's not that we are eating our wheel weights (duh!!), it's that other critters do, or they are left to live in our garbage in waterways. If we can switch to a material less toxic, that is the responsible thing to do. This is not arbitrary regulation. This is a well-known problem with an easy solution.

 

Must be wheel weights

 

You're screwing up a lot of good political ranting. Please use PMs.

 

I likez my lead and also my asbestos lined coffee cup...and thalidomide...bring on the thalidomide...oh and creosote...nothin wrong with some good ole hazardous substances. come one...i am sure we can find a way to do without. let's talk about race cars instead.

 

Stop whining about lead ending up in things. Remember, it's all natural - comes straight from the Earth.

 

Yep

 

I'm more concerned about the elimination of lead in solder on circuit boards than wheel weights.

 

+^ eleventh billion.

The military will never go to lead free, medical electronics are exempt, but not for much longer.

RoHS sucks