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william489 11-08-20 08:41 AM

small metal clip for balance?
 
I lowered my spare today and noticed I have total 17 small metal clips glued to the spare rim. If you look closely, you will see them and you don't need to lower spare.

A quick question, is this small metal clip meant for wheel rebalance? Thanks.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.clu...342f272000.jpg

tecman 11-08-20 09:15 AM

Yes it is a weight for balancing.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.clu...0c4aa0f3b7.png

https://www.lawsonproducts.com/pdfs/...Weights_PI.pdf

william489 11-08-20 12:58 PM


Originally Posted by tecman (Post 10929353)

Thank you. Guess I shall take all these metal clips off the spare one day as I am sure they will all fall off over time. My GX is 2015 and I can easily pry one off with my hand today.

I am just curious when I swap out my stock tires with LTX defender at costco in a few months, will Costco tire center make use of these metal clips for balancing, if so I better save them for later applications. Each such clip has Fe/5 on it, it looks like they are OEM clips.
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tecman 11-08-20 01:39 PM

No need to save them as they are intended for one time use. I have found a few of these on my garage floor from my GX. Guess the wheel was not cleaned properly before they were stuck on :-/

Flavorus 11-08-20 06:36 PM

That's a lot of weight to balance a wheel!


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