Wheel ceramic affect wheel weights?

[Setec Astronomy]

yellow rubber eraser off the VHB

Are you talking about one of these?:

[DFB]

And for real OCD.....ahem....one preps the wheel before getting new tires installed (if you are fortunate enough to be using a different set of wheels physically on the car). It's my preferred way to get wheels mounted if the opportunity exists


It's alot easier to remove weight, then yellow rubber eraser off the VHB so the tire tech has a perfectly clean wheel to do his thing.....and if he's mounting it right after......the hard part is done. Removing leftover weight sticker after the fact with adhesive remove, plastic scraper, etc is more work that can be avoided if it was done off the car

This is my approach too.

[Desertnate]

The couple times I've done it I don't think I had to resort to an eraser wheel. I plastic razor blade removed the big chunks of adhesive tape and then I used a little 3M adhesive remover to clean up what was left.

[chefwong]

Yes, on the rubber wheel

I've done the plastic scraper - then 3M Adhesive, solvent, terminator, more scraping route. IME, the tape is just tenacious and annoying this route. Even with the soaking of it with adhesive remove, etc. After you get the black portion of the tape off, sometime it's the clear part that is stuck and you scrape more, etc. ....and it's alot harder to do at times with limited clearances of rotor to barrel.

Hence, I prefer to do it wheels off if one has that option.

Productivity wise, I just tape off the surrounding area, then eraser it off and then use a solvent if any residual bits remain when I *back off* on the rubber wheel
The one extra value as well with doing it pre shop visit, is that you are the one removing the weight and deciding what micro marring get's put in or not.....yeah, I know, no one will ever see it, it's the dang barrel for gawds sake ;-)

[raysaint]

It'll be up to the tire shop to remove or add weights, based on proper balancing. I'm sure they do this all the time.

I'm gonna coat the face of the rims, have the new rubber mounted and balanced, bring the wheel assemblies home, and then finish coating the barrels; that way any weights will be in place. And I'll do the rubber cleaning, then have them installed on the car. Then do first dressing on the rubber.