Wheel weight options

wranglerman

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I am getting ready to get some new tires for the Jeep. Right now I have several wheel weights on the rims that do no look that great. I have heard about bags with a sandy material in them that will bust open and do the job of the wheel weights. I have also heard of people putting golf balls in the tires to do the trick. I have been told that the sand will eat away at the inside of the tire. Has anyone tired any of these options or tried anything else that has worked? I want to avoid putting the wheel weights back on the rims if possible.
 

They can put weights on the inside of the wheel that stick on to a flat surface instead of clipping on like a standard weight.
 
not golf balls its ball bearings/BB's, but I rather have the weights listening to all that racket coming from inside tire would dive me nuts, yes you have the inside option of rim for weights unless your rim is bent were they need weight on both inside and outside and if its just that the weights are worn and look fugly they usually don't reuse them anyway,
 

I use a product called Equal. It's similar to Bounty Hunter's suggestion called Dyna beads. It's worked well for the tires i have with no issues on the internal carcass of the tire.
 
They can put weights on the inside of the wheel that stick on to a flat surface instead of clipping on like a standard weight.
If you go to a shop that has good balancers and knows what they're doing, it shouldn't be a problem. My son's Mustang has custom wheels and what you do is put weights on the backside lip AND use stick-on weights in the center of the rim and program the balancer to do it that way since you can't put weights on the outer lip.
The internal balancing stuff, bead, bags, whatever, IMO shouldn't be necessary on tires 35" or less.
 
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