Tire Weights

[skidoomxz99]

My 02 EB has around 10K miles on General Grabbers and I recently had the tires rebalanced. After the tires were balanced and rotated there was no more vibration on the highway and the car rode smooth. Yesterday, I had my 02 on the highway and I noticed that there was a slight vibration around 65mph +. I then noticed that the 2 rear wheels have lost the 2 outside coated weights (I marked them since the weights falling off happened as well when my uncle was fixing my 4WD at his shop).

So, I will be going back to my tire shop to get the 2 rear tires balanced.. But, does anyone have any idea why the weights would continually fall off? Could this be something with the rims? I have the stock OE wheels.


Thanks!

 

[EasyRhino]

could be that the tech did not properly crimp on the wieghts, but that seems unlikely.

 

[skidoomxz99]

Thanks Easyrhino. I went to the tireshop this morning and had the 2 rear tires rebalanced. It's weird that the weights came off twice recently on these rims.

Could there be something that is causing this?

 

[DLinkOZ]

Would it be possible to have them use the stick-on weights on the inside of the rim? If there's some situation causing the outer crimp-on weights to come off, that would negate it. I've had some really nice wheels in the past that used the stick-ons (so you don't see them) and had no issues with them coming off.

 

[skidoomxz99]

Would it be possible to have them use the stick-on weights on the inside of the rim? If there's some situation causing the outer crimp-on weights to come off, that would negate it. I've had some really nice wheels in the past that used the stick-ons (so you don't see them) and had no issues with them coming off.

If these weights come off then I will have the stick on weights installed. I have stick-on weights on my Mustang Cobra and have had no issues.

Thanks!