Alloy Wheel Balance Weights - Adhesive Removal

[kjl]

I have spent the day taking the wheels off my recently acquired E350 Bluetec to see how worn the pads are as the car has covered nearly 42,000 miles in its first year.
While the wheels were off I thought I would clean the inside of the rims and remove the old adhesive from where the previous weights had been. The only way I could think of doing it without scratching the wheel was to use a thin piece of plastic as a scraper, but it took a long time and there was still traces of the old adhesive. I tried alloy wheel cleaner and turpentine to shift the offending adhesive but to no affect.
Does anybody have a tried and tested method for removing the old adhesive without damaging the wheel.

 

[rom1]

try some dental floss, get it under the weight and use a sawing action to remove the weight. use Tcut or some polish to remove the left overs, if there is a lot of stickiness left WD-40 shifts it quite quickly.

 

[Jeff666]

isopropyl alcohol... or whiteboard cleaner works quite well ...

J.

 

[stwat]

Lighter fluid works very well.

 

[streethawk]

I have spent the day taking the wheels off my recently acquired E350 Bluetec to see how worn the pads are as the car has covered nearly 42,000 miles in its first year.
While the wheels were off I thought I would clean the inside of the rims and remove the old adhesive from where the previous weights had been. The only way I could think of doing it without scratching the wheel was to use a thin piece of plastic as a scraper, but it took a long time and there was still traces of the old adhesive. I tried alloy wheel cleaner and turpentine to shift the offending adhesive but to no affect.
Does anybody have a tried and tested method for removing the old adhesive without damaging the wheel.

Acetone if that's how it's spelt
(nail varnish remover).

 

[flowrider]

You can buy remover specifically for the job, Google sticky stuff remover.

 

[boxbrownie]

As above, buy some "label remover" it usually smells like Oranges but takes stubborn old adhesive off quite easily.