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.

 

I should have taken pics of the damage. The powder coat was peeled back and definitely corroded. To be fair, they were Winter rims and tires were on there over 12 years. My factory Olds aluminum rims had peeling clearcoat and corroded all over but the lips definitely had some where weights sat.

 

Concur. Clip ons with aluminum wheels WILL corrode the wheel. Newer alloys though are designed with thicker or different edges where I don't think you could even get clip ons to work. But stick ons are predominatly used on spinny balancers. They typically use an inner/outer weight balancing plan similar to the clip ons. Weight is weight. Doesn't matter as long as the wheel is balanced. Lucky we don't have to worry about those goofy balancing beads inside the tires like those Jeep guys like to do for their big tires they run.

 

Yup, Go Gorilla tape or metal

 

Yeah, the factory Challenger rims have no clip on weights. Less of an edge and almost ceramic or powder coat, can't see them sticking too well. I didn't even know balance beads existed till I saw YouTuber's using them. Taping on weights is funny but would probably help.