Exploded 18" styleIV Rim
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Exploded 18" styleIV Rim
What do you make of this? Interested if anyone has experienced or seen this before.
I was driving, from the dealer, just had the car aligned. They said it was slightly off and did an alignment. The car drove better than it did and everything seemed fine. OK. Traffic in front of me, no issues, then WHAM! I though I hit something like a rock or stone, I saw debris in the drivers side mirror. I pulled over to check it and the drivers tire was fine so I continued on. As I go back on the road, the red air pressure sensor light appeared as I was emerging back onto the highway. PPulled over again and the passenger front was flat. I changed to the spare and inspected the wheel. No damage other than what you see here. Just the inner shelf of the rim. No tire damage apparent and the inner and outer lip are perfect. Whats going on?
I was driving, from the dealer, just had the car aligned. They said it was slightly off and did an alignment. The car drove better than it did and everything seemed fine. OK. Traffic in front of me, no issues, then WHAM! I though I hit something like a rock or stone, I saw debris in the drivers side mirror. I pulled over to check it and the drivers tire was fine so I continued on. As I go back on the road, the red air pressure sensor light appeared as I was emerging back onto the highway. PPulled over again and the passenger front was flat. I changed to the spare and inspected the wheel. No damage other than what you see here. Just the inner shelf of the rim. No tire damage apparent and the inner and outer lip are perfect. Whats going on?
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Yes it's crazy
They are the upgrades
No, no warranty. Cost is around $885 or so. Plus tire.
No pot hole, I even went back a few days later and looked again.
I can't find even scratch on the car itself. Nothing on the fascia, nothing on the control arms, and nothing in the wheel well. No damage to the undercarriage protection at all.
You can't see from the pictures but on the inside surface of the crack there are little black marks similar to what gunpowder might look like. No I am not saying there is gunpowder, if you look at the pics of the inside tray you can see some there, they are the black marks that have a rotational pattern. (I'm really going CSI here) so that means the same stuff within the wheel and on the inside surface.
They are the upgrades
No, no warranty. Cost is around $885 or so. Plus tire.
No pot hole, I even went back a few days later and looked again.
I can't find even scratch on the car itself. Nothing on the fascia, nothing on the control arms, and nothing in the wheel well. No damage to the undercarriage protection at all.
You can't see from the pictures but on the inside surface of the crack there are little black marks similar to what gunpowder might look like. No I am not saying there is gunpowder, if you look at the pics of the inside tray you can see some there, they are the black marks that have a rotational pattern. (I'm really going CSI here) so that means the same stuff within the wheel and on the inside surface.
Last edited by tpick23; Sep 8, 2008 at 10:48 AM.
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For what is worth...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCE...spagenameZWDVW
you could probably do the $325 shipped as I doubt many people will be interested in this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCE...spagenameZWDVW
you could probably do the $325 shipped as I doubt many people will be interested in this.
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For what is worth...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCE...spagenameZWDVW
you could probably do the $325 shipped as I doubt many people will be interested in this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/MERCE...spagenameZWDVW
you could probably do the $325 shipped as I doubt many people will be interested in this.
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If you didn't hit anything. It could be a serious defect of the wheel! I would fight with the dealer about getting a new wheel. maybe a set of 4 new wheels!!
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its still in my trunk
But I will be seeing the dealer on Wednesday to sort it out. They say they can tell if I hit something which I would expect, and I thought I did but after looking at it, I'm not so sure anymore. It will be interesting to see if the alignment is still right on or not.
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, I wouldn't have thought the quality to be that bad for AMG rims...
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this just says one thing. OEM doesn't always mean it's the greatest. Brand name wheels aren't always top quality, replicas aren't always low quality.
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i saw someone hit a large bolt that went throught the tire and rim.
I'd say you probably ran over a rock or some type of hard debris with tire pressure being on the low side.
I'd say you probably ran over a rock or some type of hard debris with tire pressure being on the low side.
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them for a replacement.
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what's so hard to believe? tire's soft, rim's hard, if you run over something very hard and smooth you probably won't damage the tire visually, but can cause serious damage to the wheel just like that.
