"What the hell is in this thing?" Danny muttered, trying to balance the wheel. Vance stepped closer, frowning in complete confusion at the extreme weight. Danny rolled the assembly into his service bay and used a pneumatic bead-breaker to unseat the rubber tire from the steel rim.
To Danny's surprise, the thick rubber tire slid off the metal rim smoothly and without any issue. The internal air cavity of the rubber tire was completely clean and empty. There were no hidden drug packages or liquid ballast inside the tire casing at all.
Yet when Danny lifted the bare steel rim off the mounting stand, his arms strained under the immense load. The rubber tire wasn't the problem—the bare steel rim itself was where all the unnatural weight was concentrated.