removing tire balancing adhesive tape

[Patalohas]

Has anyone heard about removing taped weight adhesive by scrubbing it off with a brillo pad and or steel brush using brake clean as a solvent? Apparently this is "common" practice according to my state's local BMW dealership. What i thought would be a routine wheel rotation and balance on staggered 4.8i 20's turned into a huge Pain in the butt. The dealer scratched off all the clearcoat and paint where the old weights used to be leaving bare primer and even scratched parts of the outside face fo the rims during the rebalancing. The Brakeclean mixed with the rubber in the valvestem to leave brown dribbles down the front of 2 rims that have somehow altered the chemical makeup of the clearcoat and are now a permanent stain. To top it all off, the Unidirectional and staggered tires were never swapped L to R (as reqested and acknowledged by 2 Service Advisors) they were just balaced and rotated FRONT to BACK! Can you imagine 20 x 10.5 rims on the front! Need I say more? Well there is more. Per the SA's suggestion, he wanted to see if my warranty would cover changing out the front rt. turn signal bulb (I know bout 1hr. in labor) I said sure do it if it's covered. It wasn't covered and they did it anyways....you owe us $150 now! No way, i say, so they were nice enough to charge me only for the parts- $37 for bulb and burnt out "connector" B.S.! I'm feeling really POed about the whole thing so i inspect the work done (researched it here the night before taking the X in) It turns out that the highly trained tech overtightended the mounting bolts to the light housing and cracked both top moounting brackets! Gee could have guessed that! They were in perfect shape the night before when i looked at em. Well I don't think that anyone could have messed up a tire rotation and bulb replacement as well as this dealer so I thought that I would share. Going to have the car looked at by the Shop Manager tomorrow. Ugh! How can I post pics. of this? Thanks guys and girls.