about scraping them(cause they are painted) Cleaning them isn't that bad but you do occasionaly scrape your arm as your getting in there around the rotors. I get a lot of compliments on them. I thought tirerack had one of the best prices on them. When I got mine from TR they came w/ TONS of stick on weights...not even close to balanced. I had to have them rebalanced a couple of times to finally get em right. I never had original Z rims on my TT before I got these Moda's so im not sure about the weight thing???