I decided to make a new topic on this - hopefully that is ok. I finally put my tire on and aired it up. I noticed that there is like 1/8th or so gap between the edge of the rim and the tire. I know the bead sat because there was two loud pops and I am not losing any air. I deflated it twice and inflated and still the small gap persist. Do not think I have seen these on any of the four tires I have mounted so far. Want to find out if this normal. The gap is all around uniformly on both sides.
Edit: did some search and found that some tires come with a rim protection feature that makes the bead seat a bit below the lip of the rim. I did not quite find if this particular tire has that feature, but gonna assume that is the case.
No way.... Rim protective bead I have on our SUV and it amounts to an extra deep profile so that the rim is deeper within the tire itself; this protects the rim from mean curbs...