eliminating exposed wheel weights

[ahlem]

Good Evening,

I have a set of bottlecaps that look great except for the 2 1/2" long wheel weights. I don't like the idea of accelerated corrosion from dissimilar metals either. Any one ever face this with bottlecaps?

[TobyB]

get better tires!

Seriously, that's over 3 oz of weight...

You can always try rotating the tire on the rim (it means

dismounting and remounting it) but I've never found that

to make much (over 1/2 oz) difference...

Practically speaking, you can get weight in stick- on form-

I THINK you can get this to work on a bottlecap,

but it might be a bit tenuous.

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[robspeed]

Good Evening,

I have a set of bottlecaps that look great except for the 2 1/2" long wheel weights. I don't like the idea of accelerated corrosion from dissimilar metals either. Any one ever face this with bottlecaps?

get em rebalanced and ask for stick-on weights. bottlecaps are painted so you dont need to worry about corrosion...

[Guest]

There is a way but will cost you BIG! You can have them forced balanced.

This means they balance every tire and mark it. After that the machine will tell you what rim to what tire. Then it will tell you exactlly where to put the tire on the rim. This takes alot of time and is not cheap. The result is very little to NO weight.

[John_in_VA]

using weights. A good tire shop will have stick-on weights for the inside of the rim, as well as clip-on weights of the proper profile for the rim AND they are painted vs. a plain ol' lead blob with a clip.

[MichaelP]

bottlecaps are painted so you dont need to worry about corrosion...

True dat. Stick on weights will work ok, or just ask to have the clip-on weights mounted to the inside of the rim. I've been doing that with all kinds of wheels, especially with ones that don't have a lip on the outside that's clippable.

There is a downside -- sort of -- to stick ons or inside-rim-mounting, where you'll need more/bigger weights than on the outside edge of the rim. Think back to high school physics, centripetal motion and mass concentrated closer to the xyz axis of rotation...

[c.d.iesel]

'MODERN' BALANCING MACHINES HAVE SETTINGS

just for this purpose - placing the needed weight (Tape-a-weight)

at the innermost edge, and just inside the spokes for the outer plane

But if you must 'old skol' clamp-on weight, use either BLACK or Silver

paint brushed on the outer weight to make them blend in with the rim - and prevent discolorization oxidation.