so this tire shop installed snow tires. I just notice there are small plates missing on the rear wheel. Do you know what are those plates andwhat is called. It's like small plate/chips inside the rim

Asked by Nick Jan 17, 2015 at 04:45 PM about the 2014 Ford Mustang

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

Rear wheel is missin all those plates
and front wheel had 7 and now there
are only 4. Wth Are those TPMS
censor or those plates are for
breaks? Please help

2 Answers

30

Those are balancing plates. They will not affect you if the tire shop balanced your tires. Every tire needs to be balanced nd needs diferent number/size of plates

965

those are actually wheel weights they are adhesive for rims as a wheel weight on the outside looks ugly they place them on the front most part of the inner part of the rim and they are for ballancing the tires

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