I wanted to comment on stick-on wheel weights. I also know there will be lots of opinions about this. It was discussed in another thread, but I did not want highjack someone else's post. I worked at an Oldsmobile dealership after school and in the Summer. We only had clip-on weights and state of the art equipment for the time. Who remembers the filling station bubble balancer? I recently retired from a Mercedes-Benz dealership, and the only option available is the inside the wheel stick-on weights. Our service department balance and mount tires on 8-10 cars a day. It was very rare to get a comeback due to a lost wheel weight. There is an issue with this type of weight. Hope and pray the person balancing your tires is having a good day and they take the initiative to first clean the wheel where the weight is being applied. There are products out there for just this application for cleaning the wheel. I am about to put my SSII wheels back on my '68 Cutlass and the trim rings attach to the lip of the wheel, and I plan on using the stick-on weights for that reason. Hopefully, I'll get someone having a good day.

 

Yeah, I remember getting a 255/60R15 Radial to "match" a bias ply on 15x8 rusty Cragar SS wheels. Didn’t know about tire age and one bias ply tire was litterly shredded, the other probably 20 years old! Plus mixing bias and Radial tires. Also didn't know about the special lugnuts and washer's had the wheel fall off when I parked! The replacement tire might have been used, think it was $20 for it all, can't remember. Got it installed, they used the bubble balancer. I used some really crappy, worn out tire machines and balancer's when I apprenticed. Clip on weights was standard fair. Honestly clip on weights were used around here till I just got the last set of my Oldsmobile aluminum factory rwd rims done. The galavalinic corrosion under the clip on weights with aluminum rims is a real issue, especially when they were used in Winter conditions. The design of many factory rims make anything but stick on weights a necessity today.

 

My tire place puts duct tape over the weights...

 

I prefer to use the clip on weights, with stick on you can only static balance wheels which is about the same as the old bubble balance. With clip on weights you can dynamic balance wheels which eliminates most moving vibrations and is more accurate. I have never seen any galvanic corrosion on wheels using clip on weights.