Originally Posted by
awunder
Oi.
I'll send you the wheel and you can see for yourselves. Nonsensical it may be: but there it is. Spokes should be roughly the same tension all around not all tight on one side and all loose on the other. When I got the replacement wheel, they were not all tight on one side and all loose on the other. Now they are. And I would certainly notice if the brakes started to rub!
Matt and Errol at Mad Dog Bikes both agree - rim is straight and true, but spokes on one side are crazy tight, and that's not right.
Rear wheels have tighter spoke tension on the drive side than on the non-drive side.
That is by design, since the hub flanges are not centered between the frame dropouts, but the rim needs to be. The higher drive side tension is needed to center the rim closer to the drive side hub flange.
If the mechanic judges the spoke tension to be normal, then ride them, or sell them for cheap to someone, and explain you are nervous about them.