1. Preparatory work: Ensure that the weight, rim and ambient temperature have at least 16 °C. Clean the rims with an appropriate cleaning agent (e. g. isopropanol) to avoid grease and silicone residues on the rim.

2. Adjusting the adhesive weight to the rim contour: Adjust the adhesive weight with the protective foil to the rim radius. The radius of the weight body and the rim must run at least parallel to each other. It is even better, if the radius of the weight body is smaller than the rim radius.

3. Removing the protective foil After having adjusted the weight to the rim radius, remove the protective foil from the adhesive tape. Ensure that the adhesive weight is not touched prior to the adhesion!

4. Assembling the weight: Now press the weight to the rim from the middle towards the outer edges. The pressure should be at least 100 kPa.

Changes of rim paintings!

Upon pressure of the automotive companies, all rim manufacturers have changed over to "water-soluble paintings" in the year 2005. So far "solvent-containing paintings" were in use. Those paintings contain waxes, which allow exhalations when burning-in the paintings and avoid the formation of blisters. The formerly added solvents mostly compensated the waxes. This is no longer the case with the water-soluble paintings and thus various wax concentrations develop on the adhesion surfaces, which can only be removed by a wet cleaning with e. g. isopropanol. The required surface tension values of > 32 mN/m can only be achieved with such a pretreatment! Without a precleaning the adhesion values drop below 28 mN/m and a secure adhesion is not obtained, and after 1 or 2 days the weights may detach from the rim for no apparent reason.

Note

After the assembly, 80 - 90 % of the final adhesive force are achieved after approx. 24 h. The full adhesive force is achieved after 72 h.