GavinL Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 I sent, via my local agent, my stock MKIV wheels for refurbishment at a well known SE company. Having got the wheels back and fitted them to the car (minus the centre caps but that's another story) I promptly drove along the M25 and hit the wheel shakes at 70mph. Now the local agent is responsible for refitting the tyres and re balancing the wheels after reburbished however not being a petty man I took the car to a tyre shop local to Epsom where I was advised that the balancing had not been done correctly and additionally my front offside wheel had a buckled inner rim. I watched the wheel spinning and it is undoubtly wonky, needing a 20 gram weight to re-balance the wheel. In my opinion the wheel has been dropped at some point when a tyre has not been fitted e.g at the agents, by the van driver or during any stage of the refurb process. I am of course going to speak to the parties involved but before I do could anyone come up with a reasonable explanation as too how I could inflict damage on the inner rim only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 is this the same place I took my wheels to? JB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GavinL Posted February 24, 2002 Author Share Posted February 24, 2002 Hi... No...much further south, near Justin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Wall Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 Quote: from GavinL on 12:14 pm on Feb. 24, 2002[br] I am of course going to speak to the parties involved but before I do could anyone come up with a reasonable explanation as too how I could inflict damage on the inner rim only. IMO this would be pretty hard to do. You would have to hit something like a brick just with the inside edge. But you would then sustain major damage to the underside as the brick would be thrown up not to mention tire damage. You may have been racing in a bus only lane, round here they have curbstones on the middle of the road to stop cars using certain junctions. But that would have taken your exhaust off as well. I thought most inner rim damage is usually caused in accidents after the tire has deflated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GavinL Posted February 24, 2002 Author Share Posted February 24, 2002 Hi... The best one so far is the wheel is an exchange unit and not my original refurbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Cargill Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 I've got a load of the 5 foot square speed humps near me. I usually do them one wheel off and one down the middle, but I can also straddle them - this would run on the inside of the tyres so I guess it's possible to hit the rims if the gods were against you that day. _________ __/ \__ (Edited by Steve Cargill at 6:18 pm on Feb. 24, 2002) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt Posted February 24, 2002 Share Posted February 24, 2002 I have damaged the inside edge only ......... twice before on previous cars!! Both times were due to 'kin great potholes that I encountered at speed . I guess the outside edge missed the drop . This was on TSW rims , admittedly not the strongest. I doubt you could buckle a stock rim without remembering.... I don't think it would be possible to really buckle one by dropping it a few feet either , they are very strong IMO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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