Mostly Harmless

Had the wheels balanced by someone actually competent today, i.e. not Tires Plus, and the car is riding much nicer… but I think I may have lost some weights again.
Three wheels now have weights on the outside of the rim, where I can easily keep track of them! One wheel doesn’t. I don’t know if that’s because the weights are on the inside or because the weights have fallen off.

I’ll ask the guy tomorrow and/or look for inside weights. In any case it’s much better than before, and I may only need to have one wheel rebalanced (or it that re-re-rebalanced?)

Now what I want is some of these neato balancing beads. I’ve found a place that sells them online, but they’re about $300-$400 a case (enough to do several dozen wheels).

Of course, I could just buy a whole ‘nuther set of wheels and tires, prebalanced, from Tirerack, which would also rid me of those scummy brake dust encrusted wheels. (Grrr, argh!)