[INTLgunMonkey]

I bought a new set of American Racing wheels from my local tire shop, along with new tires that they mounted and balanced, a couple months back. Within a week or two, I found a strip of stick-on weights laying on the shop floor near one of the wheels. I took that wheel in and had them rebalance it. Dude put a couple stick-ons and a single clamp-on on it.

It stuck in the back of my head that I may have lost other ones but wouldn’t even know it since the wheels are new and there wouldn’t be any indication if the weight came off clean.

I just had the rear wheels off for a couple weeks while I was rebuilding the rear end, and just happened to notice a strip of weights laying where I had one of the wheels during that time.

What gives? Should I ask them to just use clamp-ons? I’d prefer sticks-ons, but I also want them to stay put. Should I just take them somewhere else and hope they know how to get them to stay stuck?

 

[INTLgunMonkey]

Thanks for the rapid feedback. I took it up to the shop and had them redo all four wheels, and remove the one clamp-on that they used last time.

I took brake cleaner, a new rag and duct tape with me. They were using brake cleaner, but a pretty nasty looking rag, so I asked them to use my clean one. When they were done, I took note of how many were on each wheel (so I’d know if any were missing in the future), and put duct tape over them. Hopefully they stay put this time.

 

[INTLgunMonkey]

What I found amazing was when the gent balanced my custom 18 inch wheels and Michelin PS4s tires last December. The two rears (295/30) required “no” weight, and only one of the fronts (225/40) took weight: 1/2 ounce.
He claimed that he always has good luck with the PS4s and that my three piece wheels must have been machined perfectly.

On my DD vehicle wheels I’m happy when it takes 2 ounces or less (per side in some cases)….

That is surprising. That would mean that those two wheels happened to also get perfectly balanced tires, or they indexed just right that the imbalance of the tires offset the imbalance of the wheels.