As hounddogg says, stick-on wheel weights are nothing new. They've been in use for a hell of a long time. Also, you can't balance a wheel by putting weight only on the inside lip, so the chrome clad Sport and Laramie wheels and the painted 5-spoke SLT wheels all would require stick-on weights because there is no outer lip. No tire shop should be charging you extra for using stick-on weights and if they aren't familiar with them I'd be heading out the door pronto.

Rob

 

Thanks for all the info guys. The last post makes me wonder if what I heard coming off the wheels was in fact the old stick-on weights that the garage may have repositioned during balancing. I never thought to look under the chrome cladding to look for weights - I will definitely check that out!

 

You can't re-use a stick-on weight that was pulled off. Or you shouldn't anyway.

 

My 2008 had clamp ons...just 1year behind your truck. all Rams prior to 2009 had clamp ons. Not sure why? I know my truck is 4yrs old, but when you say YEARS, I think of like 10yrs...
Even my wife's 2007 Sonata had stickies on the inside behind the spokes.

 

Depends on the wheel etc. Some of these wheels clamp on won't work. Some had stick ons and a stupid butt took them off and pounded a clamp on type on not caring what he gouged or scratched.

 

Glenn..I am one that likes mine balanced almost perfect, the stick on weights are the only way to go, most shops already know they cant put the old style on with out tearing the lip up, the chrome plastic will not hold that type, the most important thing I found is talk to the service manager, ask him if they have the correct adapter to mount chrome clad dodge wheels, you can not just spin the big wing nut down on our wheels, i have a tsb that shows the correct adapters, i will try and find it, after talking with the service manager, he put one of my wheels on there and to his suprise the big wing nut clamped down on the plastic chrome part and not the wheel itself, giving the balancer a false reading, it took a collet type adapter to get it right, I have had my truck at out our local track and it is balanced PERFECT to a gps 100+ MPH, so 70/80 is just fine, it took me talking to the guy he had no idea of an adapter, i am sure by now there are other adapters that work but most tie changers do not know this or care. I took mine to 3 shops that TRIED to balance them..and got my money back, some of them made it shake worse that when i started, I have 305/55/20 on stock chrome clad rims, good luck and let us know

I found it here it is hope this helps
www.wkjeeps.com/tsb/tsb_wk_2200209.pdf

 

Thanks, BULLRAM. I have been busy with work lately and I guess I have let this slide. I can notice a slight shimmy on the highway but I won't be going back to that particular garage - it is a waste of my time. Things change slow around here so I doubt they will have the proper gear to balance my wheels anytime soon. Matter of fact the mechanic said they just purchased a brand new machine so there ya go... If it pisses me off too much I will go to the stealer to get them re-balanced. Live and learn I guess.

 

Surprised no one else has mentioned this but why not use balancing beads internally? I have them on mine and they work great. Having after market wheels, I dont want anything clamped or stickied on my rims.

 

Weed shoe, I never heard of balancing beads. Are they omething new? Many yrs ago, more than I'll admit., I worked for an oil, tire, battery dealer. It was way back when radial irks had just come out! You old even buy re-tread tires! Anyhow, there was a formula for according to the size of the tire/wheel you would add so muh anti-freeze, (water would freeze in Maine) to the inside of the tire to balance it. It actually worked! Have often said with all these fancy wheels today it would be the way to go.

 

These are who I used

http://www.counteractbalancing.com/counteract/