anybody can balance wide 5 brm's
you're right russ.
I heard sometime ago about someone using a drum to balance them. I have no idea how. Maybe someone else does.
the problem with balancing stock wide 5 wheels is that tire balancing machines dont come with a cone large enough to fit the huge stock wide 5 center.
that is why you need a special wide 5 adapter with a small inside diameter that bolts to the wheel itself and then the cone on the balancing machine fits into it. there is a tire shop near/in maple ridge (i think) that has that adapter. that's where i got my stock wide 5's balanced after i mounted the 135's. the owner has a nice kombi too, and does alot of vw tire balancing at the shop.
the drum trick would work. bolt the drum to your wheel and then mount that on the balancing machine. not as precise tho, imo.