1st time pony owner. Need to know if this many balance weights is normal. Seems like a lot

 

There is no such thing as over balanced.

When a wheel needs that many weights to be balanced, the rim is out of round,
bent, damaged, or the tire is wonky.

 

What he said.

 

Just bought this mustang from the dealer a week ago. Suggestions on how to present this to them to say it needs to be replaced? perhaps a 3rd party verification?

 

If you did not get any kind of warranty, then you can forget about them helping you.
You have to let them know within three days of purchase, that's the law. When I
drove mine home, I made a note of ALL the issues, and they were all addressed.

IF they are cool, they will take care of it, but I doubt that they will buy a new rim
to satisfy that. The reason being, as I said, it's either the rim or the tire. They
will want you to replace the tire and balance it again to be sure... It will be a little
bit of a fight, that may produce no results.

 

You should also check to see if the tire is dynamic or static balanced.

Easiest way is to see if there are weights both on the outer edge of the rim like this and on the inner edge (furthest away from the hub). If there are only weights on the front side nearest the hub, that's a static balance. It's not uncommon to see a ****z ton of weights for alloy wheels that are just static balanced. Dynamic balance would have weights on both inner and outer edges and would use less weights.

If in doubt, just take it to a reputable tire shop. They can best advise you of what's up.

 

The only time I had that many weights on a rim is when it was damaged...

 

I'll second that, with that many weights, there has to be something wrong.

 

In the days of "bubble balancers", the now-and-then tire encountered having an imbalance running across the tread at an ANGLE, were next to impossible to get real good. That type of imbalance is "dynamic imbalance", and will cause the wheel to "wiggle" side to side via the pivot action of the steering knuckle, if in front.

Today's spin balancers are amazingly good at balancing to near perfection, because they detect both radial or static imbalance as well as dynamic.