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The red dot is not necessarily the heaviest spot of the tire.
From Yokohama:
To facilitate proper balancing, Yokohama places red and yellow marks on the sidewalls of its tires to enable the best possible match-mounting of the tire/wheel assembly. There are two methods of match-mounting...