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Large number of wheel weights on replacement snowflake rims.

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kfjethro Enthusiast

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I'm halfway thru getting my 18" snowflakes replaced under warranty due to the finish peeling.

The dealer is having trouble getting new rims which are not scratched.

I noticed that one of the new rims they installed has a string of 12 x 3 oz weights glued to the rim.

This wheel is using one of my original tires and I never had more than one weight on my old rims.

Other than the string of weights not looking so good, do 12 weights indicate a low quality rim ?

 

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No, it indicates there's an excessive amount of unequal weight distribution in the rim or you have a tire that's the same way. What size tires are on this?

 

 

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kfjethro Enthusiast

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My tires are standard equipment Goodyear SRA 265/65R18 RWOLs.

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Those tires usually aren't bad. It's the Goodyear 20's that normally have an issue. More inclined to say you have bad rims

 

 

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I'll ask the dealership about it when I go in for the installation of the remaining 2 rims. Out of the first 6 rims they ordered, only two weren't cosmetically damaged and now I am wondering that one of those two might be way out of balance.

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The dealer put 16 weights on one of the rear wheels so 12 is not looking too bad now. The only problem is they stacked two strips of 8 on top of each other rather than both on the rim.

I suspect these weights will fall off like the previous set did The first set was laying on my driveway in the morning after they were installed. I have been to the dealer once a week since my original post to get these new rims installed. I have had to have my rear tires remounted twice and balanced three times so far. The fronts have been balanced twice. Each time the tires are cleaned before service and they come back filthy and damaged. The RWOL are starting to turn brown due to their carelessness. They are destroying my like new tires. Today they chipped the paint on one of the rims doing the re-balancing so it's back for another rim.

Spurshot Senior Enthusiast

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I would check the tire with that much weight on it. I'd bet the tire is out of round. No amount of weight will fix vibration from an badly out of round tire.

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I would check the tire with that much weight on it. I'd bet the tire is out of round. No amount of weight will fix vibration from an badly out of round tire.

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You need to find a new dealer.. The person that is balancing your wheels/tires is an idiot.

 

If the wheels need that much weight on them, then the tech should be talking to the service writer and manager about this issue.

 

Either get you new wheels or new tires or both. But they should be using a Hunter Road Force (HRF) balancer to determine this. If they used the HRF balancer then they could determine the heavy spots on both the wheels and tires and move the tire on the wheel to help correct that problem. If it cant be corrected, the HRF balancer would tel them and that where either new wheels or tires would come into play.

 

Either way, your dealer is wasting your (and their) time with their current way they're doing things.

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I discussed this issue with the service manager's boss this morning and I will be getting a new rim. He explained the pro-active measures they are taking to prevent the problems with the weights coming off. It was a good conversation (seriously). I'm also hoping that I can get the tire replaced under warranty due to the black rubber around the raised white letters peeling off. I bought a tire warranty with the truck and it seems I might have coverage. As it turns out I did have coverage for the tire replaced in my other tire thread. If this is the case it would an all new tire/rim which will hopefully need fewer weights. I tried the truck on the highway today and the tires do seem ok, however, the top strip of weights is already starting to come off. I suspect that the weight of multiple weights tugging on each other doesn't help them stay stuck to the rim. Thanks for you advice and support.

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