Kinda new here, thanks for the great forum and wealth of info.
I was changing out my stock front springs this morning (EPI's) and noticed that the right front tire has what seems like alot of those stick on weights on the inside of the rim. None of the other three wheels have any at all... Polaris must have put them on or does the dealer? Bike does wobble ever so slightly at higher speeds, but nothing too noticable. Am I in for trouble with this wheel later on? Anyone else notice this? (I think I attached a pic below, but not sure it will come thru...)

 

I have never seen weights like that. I have had my rims and tires balanced but they used traditional weights like on a car. I would check back in with the dealer and see what they say.....

 

Have never seen that kind before, mine are clip on ones too. Wouldnt think the stick on ones would hold up to mud,snow,water,sticks.........What year is your machine? Did you buy it new with those weights on there?

 

those are better than the clip on weights, they are very hard to remove, the clip ons might slide if you are in really thick mud

 

those are balanced at the rim factory (for lack of a better description.)
if they cant take enough material on the heavy side then they put those weights on.

 

Thanks for the replies everyone. It's an '08 Sportsman 500 HO EFI. Those weights are stuck on good with 3M doublesided sticky tape or something. The next set of tires I get might be challenging to balance if I have to try to get them off! Just seems like an awful lot of weight especially since there isn't any at all on the other wheels. Makes me wonder if the rim itself was borderline defective so they tried to balance it. I guess time will tell if there's an issue...

 

i would lean more toward the weights being on there for the tire. the tire might be out of round and cause it to hope or it might not run true with the wheel. you dont usually find a wheel that will need weight on its own.

 

on my 08 800 2 of the four wheels have those weights.they are called static weights to balance the tires