OT: How much does an average 15" alloy wheel weigh?

I dont know, but the last ones I bought were 15" alloys + tyres and the courier bill was about 50 quid.

Typically, 8 to 10 Kg. (If you're as sad as me, you can occasionally buy hideous ones off eBay for 99p a set then weigh them in for 60p per kilo.)

You mean sell them for scrap? LOL

For a set of four, presumably.

absolutely. always save and sell aluminium, even ali drinks cans and chinky containers and kitchen foil soon add up to some useful money.

Mrcheerful

Yup. Current prices make it well worth the effort as long as they're not too far away. It helps if they don't come with any tyres on them of course.

i've got a couple of alloys to sell, want to keep two of the good ones for spare, I don't like the look of the space saver.

Go to Halfords. There are always some alloy wheels (replete with rubber) piled up and propped up on display. Now, if you have a weighing scale with a spring hook at one end.....

MrCheerful ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I lobbed an ally-blocked engine (2.0 straight 4, block with crank and pistons, no head or flywheel) into the wheelybin a few years ago...

They hooked it onto the bin wagon, lift, lift, lift, lift... and the entire bin tipped in the truck. Oops.

that was a waste of a fiver or two

MrCheerful ( snipped-for-privacy@hotmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

I know. I just could not be arsed trekking it round. Life is too short.

I've a friend who's in charge of bin collections around here, he says that happens two or three times every day. The composting ones are the most fun, because if they're not fished out of the lorry, they get shredded. Then someone has the delicate job of seperating them from the compost.