I bought a new set of tires last year which got cupped due to a improperly calibrated alignment machine. I didn’t want to get new tires again so I bought a lightly used set of the exact same tires on rims (that were a different bolt pattern then my car), and they looked perfectly fine. I just had the tires re-mounted to my rims and 2 of them immediately took almost the exact same cupping form as my old tires did.

I’m left with 2 options.. either the tires on the rims I bought weren’t inflated properly and didn’t show the cupping, but they seemed decently inflated (I didn’t check exact psi). Or, the rim is somehow bent causing tires to take this form?

I’m fairly frustrated as it seems like I’m just going to be losing thousands of dollars with this issue. Anyway, any help would be really appreciated. Thanks.

Wanted to also add: my rims were powdercoated around a year ago. Just in case this may somehow matter.