Hello, I recently had a larger tire installed on my truck and they installed the stick on weights.

Last night my wife and I are leaving a resturant and we hear this loud bang and a metal hitting sound. I get out, can't see any issues and we drive home with out problems.

I'm at home and it dawns on me, maybe it was the weights. I go check and sure enough, they're missing. The whole strip, they used 1/4oz ones and I counted another tire and see a total of 3-4oz. I go back to the resturant and can't find them. As I drive home at maybe 30-40mph I can't hear any weird vibrations or feel anything being off.

I happen to check the other tires and another set has fallen off prior without my knowledge. So as of now, I have no weights on the driver rear or the passenger front. Should I have a shop replace them (a little hard to do since the install was in Detroit and I'm in Canada) at my expense or should I just let it be and listen for weird vibrations/noises?

 

The shop did not properly install them. The area should have been cleaned off (many use lighter fluid), warmed if necessary, and then the weights applied. Counting weights on wheel A has no relationship to the amount of weights that were applied to wheel B...

They were applied because your tire was out of balance. If you run without them, the tire will be out of balance and wear accordingly, so that decision is yours.

 

I get that all the weights on each tire are different and do not relate to each other.


Crap.

 

Of course it's possible, but unlikely, that some wheels didn't need any. You should also check for the normal weights that are hammered on.

My F-150, with standard wheels, has normal weights on 3 wheels with 1 wheel requiring stick on weights. I assume, but don't know, that this is because that wheel needs them close to the outside edge.

I rotate every 5,000 miles and stand there watching them. While I think Discount Tire is great, when they rush they miss things. Most often it's balancing the tires, many people don't ask for that during a tire rotation. Sometimes, it's mixing them up, attempting to put them on the wrong spot. I label each tire before leaving home with the final position to avoid the problem. My last visit, they started to check pressure and I said no, I just did that this morning. In my monthly tire check a few weeks later, two of the four (on our Fusion) were at 28 pounds, both rear tires. I surmise that either their machine's pressure setting was off, or they had it set wrong despite my saying "35 pounds" several times.

 

There are those stupid hammered on ones but they are on the inside (backside) edge.

Ironic you mention discount, it was the 14mile @ gratiot store.