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[N61AOP]

Just got some new tyres for my Omega, it needed three  .
I noticed that the tyre fitters put balancing weights on the outside rims of the rear wheels. I thought balancing weights went inside alloy wheels. Have they done it wrong or am I just being thick?

[Auto Addict]

Weights can be fitted either side of the wheel, depends where they're needed.

[N61AOP]

OK thanks for that.

[Andy B]

Just got some new tyres for my Omega, it needed three  .
I noticed that the tyre fitters put balancing weights on the outside rims of the rear wheels. I thought balancing weights went inside alloy wheels. Have they done it wrong or am I just being thick?

Not on my wheels! :-? They're always told to use stick on weights on the INSIDE!!!


That said, there's no rim to clip clip-on weights to on the facelift Elite rims 

[Andy B]

Weights can be fitted either side of the wheel, depends where they're needed.

Just easier for the tyre fitter to clip em on the outside edge.

[tunnie]

WIM always put them on the inside, was always surprised how small those sticky weights are.

When i first got my 2.2 that had them on the outside, they corrode the alloys too 

Look much better being on the inside

[Andy B]

...... they corrode the alloys too 
 ......

My main objection to them

[waspy]

If the tyres are fiited correctly, weights shouldn't be needed

[mudflap]

If the tyres are fiited correctly, weights shouldn't be needed

true, though it would take hours to fit and refit the tyre on the rim to make it "perfect", and could still need a gram or two here and there  - all wheels and tyres will need a balancing check, in all the years i was fitting tyres when they were mostly steel rims and alloys were just coming in,  i only saw one or two wheels that didn't need any weights on it, though these days the alloy wheels and tyres are better quality and made to tighter tolerances but will still need balance weights, if only small ones. 

clip-on weights can scratch the anodiser surface on alloy rims, stick on weights can be used instead. Inner and outer rims are calculated separately on the balancing machine and would usually need weights on both.
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[waspy]

If the tyres are fiited correctly, weights shouldn't be needed

true, though it would take hours to fit and refit the tyre on the rim to make it "perfect", and could still need a gram or two here and there  - all wheels and tyres will need a balancing check, in all the years i was fitting tyres when they were mostly steel rims and alloys were just coming in,  i only saw one or two wheels that didn't need any weights on it, though these days the alloy wheels and tyres are better quality and made to tighter tolerances but will still need balance weights, if only small ones. 

clip-on weights can scratch the anodiser surface on alloy rims, stick on weights can be used instead. Inner and outer rims are calculated separately on the balancing machine and would usually need weights on both.
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Yeh exactly & that's what the tyre fitter said to me when i mentioned it