Is there a trick to removing stick-on wheel weights from Fuchs?

[MarkY]

My new tires came and I made a deal with my mechanic that he would mount and balance my new tires if I cleaned the wheels up myself. Since I don't want some high school wrench screwing with my Fuchs, I took him up on the deal.

However, does anyone have any great ways to remove the old wheel weights without harming my Fuchs?

Thanks

[89911]

No trick, just pull. Instead of prying these off, try to carefully grab the weight with a set of plyers or vise grips and then pull without touching the wheel. These weight will generally still leave a mark where they were. That is why I insist they place them on the inside of the rim. If that is where yours are, then just pry em off.

[Schrup]

I used PB Blaster, worked like a charm. Make sure you don't stink up you home with it. I'm sure any penetrating oil would work. It just kind of melted the adhesive.

[AirCooledExcellence]

Yeah, like Paul said!

Cheers,

Tim.

[Bill Verburg]

The weights just pry off, I use 3M General Purpose Adhesive Remover to clean the residue off.

As Mike said only use weights on the inner side.

[Milu]

WD40 removes the stick on weights and residue and also helps to polish out any blemishes.

[kach22i]

I have very old adhesive blemishes on mine. What will get the old stuff off? WD-40 does little to nothing for this.

[Paulporsche]

3M Adhesive Remover, as Bill Verberg said. Also stuff like paint thinner, lacquer thinner, acetone, some citrus cleaners, rubber cement thinner, lighter fluid, brake fluid, and some other glue removal products, the names of which I can't think right now.

Paul

[kach22i]

Thanks, my old phone dials will never look better.

[Paulporsche]

Be careful kach22i.

If your wheels are not anodized, but have clear coatings, some of the above may remove the coating. Try the citrus solvent or paint thinner, or the proprietary products before acetone or lacquer type products. And brake fluid may just be too risky since it could disolve your paint.

Let us know what worked.

Paul

[david914]

I just did this very thing a couple of nights ago ( I think I still have a slight buzz from the fumes ) At any rate, what seemed to work best is to carefully pry off the weight, scrape off as much of the foam tape as possible with your fingernails or a plastic scraper, then use a kitchen "Dobie" pad soaked in 3M General Purpose Adhesive Remover. After everything was off, I followed up with some alcohol to remove any remaining residue. Lotsa work, but your wrench will thank you for it!

[Paulporsche]

If you check the " how do you remove old weigh tadhesive from back of fuchs" thread you will see some other ideas, incl Toluene, Methyl Ethyl Ketone, Naptha, and the 2 I couldn't recall: Goo Gone and DE SOLV IT.