Have noticed this is quite popular around the paddock...and am interested in taping over my wheel weights to see if I can prevent them from coming off.

Any of you guys know of a preferred tape(noticed that it's usually a aluminum foil like) that's going to stand up to the heat as well as be sticky enough to hold them to the wheel?

Thanks,

It's aluminum tape that you can pick up from Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. Usually in the heating section.

It's aluminum tape that you can pick up from Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. Usually in the heating section.

Niiiice, thanks.

yup

...and am interested in taping over my wheel weights to see if I can prevent them from coming off.
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Ever walk around the hot pits at a track? Its always littered with stray wheel weights.

Ever walk around the hot pits at a track? Its always littered with stray wheel weights.
Oh, now I get what you mean. Can't say that I ever have, my weights are on the inner part of the rim, not the lip.

Oh, now I get what you mean. Can't say that I ever have, my weights are on the inner part of the rim, not the lip.

So are mine, regardless it 'supposedly' prevents weights from flying off at extreme speeds.

Nice tip, I was wondering how to keep my wheel weights on.

I have seen some rather painful unintentional body work on a 911 that had a few wheel weights come off at speed on the track. A nice hard inside-out door ding on those beautiful wide rear fenders . . . . Tape them up.

Yeap.....one of the guys at our track day had his weight come off fly around and cut up his brakeline...:(...

Yeap.....one of the guys at our track day had his weight come off fly around and cut up his brakeline...:(...

Wow.

We didn't used to - and then we were at Buttonwillow in June (hot) and I saw a weight that had been trying to slide off as the adhesive was melting.

Since then, we tape them with the aluminum tape from Home Depot, Lowe's, OSH, etc.

I like the 200mph aerodynamic lightweight hardcore custom made alloy based composite adhesive backed tape.

It's aluminum tape that you can pick up from Home Depot, Lowe's, etc. Usually in the heating section.

What do you use to get it cleaned off when you get them rebalanced?

Any basic "goo" cleaner will work. Then again, we use them on race wheels, so the tires usually get mounted and balanced at the track and we don't get around to getting the goo off until after 4-5 different sets of tires have been mounted onto the wheels.

What do you use to get it cleaned off when you get them rebalanced?

The aluminum stuff can be peeled off without too much trouble, and the remaining adhesive seems to (eventually) come off with the usual adhesive removers (GooGone would work, I'm sure, but my wheel guy uses some other sort of universal wheel solvent, I think).

I started using the stuff based on hearing about it, and not running it... I remember (like Scott and Ralph) one really hot day out at Buttonwillow where I started to get some wheel shimmy pretty bad. One wheel had lost all of it's weights, and another which used to have weights on opposite sides of the wheel now had several on one side! ha!

Thanks for reminding me. I keep forgetting that I want to tape up my wheel weights until after they've fallen off or moved around. :eeps:

you would think that the centrifugal force of the wheel spinning at high speeds would cause the weights to adhere even harder. I have seen the infamous wheel weight grave yards at the track though. It changed my life forever.

you would think that the centrifugal force of the wheel spinning at high speeds would cause the weights to adhere even harder. I have seen the infamous wheel weight grave yards at the track though. It changed my life forever.

Dirt, grime tar, side loads, old adhesive, it all adds up to loose weights. Plus if someone puts them on the lip and not niside, it can fly off easier.