New wheels / tires - lots of wheel weights on one wheel
 

Got a wheel and tire package shipped (17" Vintage Wheel V40 and Nitto NT555s). Three wheels have between 2 and 7 stick on 1/4 oz weights in one row but one wheel has 22 all in one row. I would think this would have raised a red flag since it is so far out compared to the others. What is an acceptable limit and should I be concerned about a defect and return this wheel/tire combo?

I don't like to see over 3 oz total weight. Most likely you need to have the tire spun 180 degrees on the wheel and re-balance and it will get better. If, not then, check the run-out of the wheel and tire. Most modern tire/wheel balancers can check this easily. If one has excessive run-out then, yes, return/exchange it.

Good luck!

Seen this work quite a few times. You'd be surprised how freakin lazy people can be when asked to do this simple fix.... "my machine says its fine like that... acceptable limits."


Jeff-

I concur... I used to do this myself, good tires usually balance out with an ounce or less. I rarely had a tire I could not fix by breaking the bead and reseating it. I never took issue with doing this as a tire tech. I have also seen shops hit high weights like this because they did not have the wheel seated in the machine correctly, made them do it over.

If spinning the tire on the wheel 180 degrees doesn't fix it have them balance just the wheel to see if the wheel or the tire is the issue .

Depending on what method they used to balance the wheel you may or may not be able to easily fix the issue .