Wheel weights on BRAND NEW rims? Not normal?

[lolwat]

line the marking on the tyres up with your valve (heavy spot and light spot should be marked on the tyre)

[Rice86]

i thought the same when i had my re001 brand new put onto my brand new wantanbes, "why did they have to use them weight, thought all this shit was brand new, should be perfect balance already"..anyways, didn't think much of it as if it was there, it was needed for safety..but in your case that is a fair bit they had to use..try a different place for balancing otherwise just use it and enjoy haha

[T.R.D]

That is normal. If to much weight is required usually get the tyre rotated on the rim. Also the furthur in the wheel the weights go the more they need. They put them there though so you don't see the ugly weights on the lip of the rim and knock on weights may not work on that lip (hard to tell by the photos) but only mark the rims anyway.

[Frak]

Unfortunately this is NOT true, put a rim just on a balancer and you may be suprised. (especially some of the cheap stuff)

I had to laugh at the rim with a bit of weights opposite, try somewhere else to balance your rims/tyres.

[Nicko]

I always get sus when I see weights directly OPPOSITE each other... because that shit should cancel itself out of balanced properly...

[takai]

Plus those weights are pretty light. The stick on ones are normally 4 or 7 grams.

The clamp/clip on ones are generally 14 or 21g, and you can balance it up a lot better with fewer weights.

[lolwat]

wheel weights come in pretty much what ever size you want (in 5 gram incriments), bash on and stick ons
there 80 grams on that first rim, for the outer side, to be honest i wouldnt be too happy with that get the tryes rotated, (keep in mind that you need to use more when you put them on the inside like that as there not right on the edge)

[Javal]

DING DING DING DING DING.

These are the correct responses to your question, although imperfections in tyre and rim manufacture are also contributing factors as previously established.

[Panda BVB700]

most likely stated earlier but wheel weights are put in place to correct the tyres inperfections not the rims

[toyotacrazy]

ummm hmmm...