A wheel-weight comeback is a small number that hides in plain sight: fifteen to twenty minutes, a few cents of material, and a shop that never adds it up because no single instance is worth investigating. Our new research report, Comeback Economics, adds it up, using the same formula already published on our comeback calculator: comebacks per week, minutes to fix each, and a loaded labor rate, multiplied out to a number any shop can check for itself.
The report also digs into why a wheel weight actually fails to hold, using 3M's own published wheel-weight application guidelines rather than a guess: incomplete tape wet-out, a contaminated wheel surface, a touched adhesive, a coating mismatch, or a temperature and condensation problem. Every one of those is a process step, which means every one of them is fixable. Read the full report at https://chaossupplies.com/pages/comeback-economics, and download the print edition from the page.