[cobra7]

OK, I'm pretty anal about cars and scratches/dings. I go crazy when I get the most minor stone chip in the bumper. But, if you expect the service guys to worry about scratching the insides of your rims when taking off balancing weights, it just ain't gonna happen, so don't drive yourself crazy about it. Nobody's gonna notice and it won't affect the value of your car come trade-in time. Just let it go. Now if they scratch your bumper or ding your door, then scream bloody hell!

Basically, if you want the car babied that much, you're gonna have to do all of the service yourself. I watched the service guys work for a while at my dealership the other day. If you saw how they drive the cars in and out of the shop and how careless they can be when working on them, you'd never take your car to a shop again. It's not their car and many of them don't even care about cars - it's just a job to them, so you can't expect that they're gonna treat it like you would. It would be nice, but it's not realistic. The service guy's goal was to get those wheels balanced as quickly as possible, not to sit there and meticulously remove each weight without inflicting the slightest scratch on the inside of four rims.