ShadowsPapa
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If they are aluminum wheels in most cases they won't have a lip thin enough like steel wheels to put the drive-on weights.
Aluminum wheels are forged (even cold forged) and machined and for the rim lip where the outer bead of the tire sits to have strength it won't be thin like a steel wheel.
Wheels like on my SX4 do have a more standard inner bead lip for weights. BUT - those have a steel core so the inner lip is more like a steel wheel and the outer is like a "mag wheel". I don't know about the Sport wheels on the Jeeps.
The Overland wheel is also steel and aluminum. A magnet will stick to the core of the wheel, but not to the face, like my Eagle wheels.
Assuming for safety - kids who eat lead and the environment, the weights used are not lead but are steel.
Go take a magnet to the weights on your Jeep wheels.......
Aluminum wheels are forged (even cold forged) and machined and for the rim lip where the outer bead of the tire sits to have strength it won't be thin like a steel wheel.
Wheels like on my SX4 do have a more standard inner bead lip for weights. BUT - those have a steel core so the inner lip is more like a steel wheel and the outer is like a "mag wheel". I don't know about the Sport wheels on the Jeeps.
The Overland wheel is also steel and aluminum. A magnet will stick to the core of the wheel, but not to the face, like my Eagle wheels.
Assuming for safety - kids who eat lead and the environment, the weights used are not lead but are steel.
Go take a magnet to the weights on your Jeep wheels.......
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