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I bet you they put a inexperienced shop apprentice on the tire changing. I'd raise some serious stink over that.
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The OP should tell the manager that the scratches have created stress risers in the alloy, and he wants a new wheel.
 

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If I did that in our shop my tool box would be sitting outside the door.

We use a plastic scraper to pry the weights off then hit it with carb cleaner to get rid of the glue residue.

Just as an aside, this was on our alignment machine yesterday. It is not unusual for us to get very high end restorations in for alignments and power steering conversions

If you damage a car like this one it gets very expensive very fast.

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Yikes!!!! That's terrible. :sadface:
 


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If I did that in our shop my tool box would be sitting outside the door.

We use a plastic scraper to pry the weights off then hit it with carb cleaner to get rid of the glue residue.

Just as an aside, this was on our alignment machine yesterday. It is not unusual for us to get very high end restorations in for alignments and power steering conversions

If you damage a car like this one it gets very expensive very fast.

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That Cadillac is a very beautiful car.
 

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If I did that in our shop my tool box would be sitting outside the door.

We use a plastic scraper to pry the weights off then hit it with carb cleaner to get rid of the glue residue.

Just as an aside, this was on our alignment machine yesterday. It is not unusual for us to get very high end restorations in for alignments and power steering conversions

If you damage a car like this one it gets very expensive very fast.

IMG_20260602_105137018_HDR.webp
That's my wife's dream car, she loves cars with fins - but she would have to get it repainted. She hates that color on cars.
 

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That's my wife's dream car, she loves cars with fins - but she would have to get it repainted. She hates that color on cars.
We also have a 59 Chevy of some sort in the shop. also with fins that could generate enough lift at speed to make it a plane instead of a car
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