tegra69

can an alluminum rim BREAK or will it just bend?

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00accord44

Depends how hard you hit the fucker. As long as you aint shootin ICBMs at your wheels, they will just bend. (If you have a wheel worth its weight in piss) Still, it should take a pretty nice pothole to bend your wheels. The majority of wheelss nowdays are engineered to be resistant to denting/bending around the rim. I hit a hefty Chicago pothole with my left front wheel while doing about 90mph (some asshole tried to merge into my lane while I was right next to him! I move left some, then BANG ) Anyways, afer that major hit, my rim is only slightly out of round. I'm getting it replaced soon. My tire got an impact bubble though. THOSE MUST BE FIXED ASAP!!! You never know when they could rupture your tire and send you/your car for a nice ride. I didn't realize I had one once and drove all the way from Chicago to Florida with a growing bubble. Higher speed created more heat, creates an unstable bubble. Luckily I made it to Florida with no busted tire.

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Barwick

only if you buy rimZ dawggggg..

wtf is with people spelling crap like "my boyz"?

Anything can break, and anything will if it hits zomething hard enough. SSR competitionz are light and cheap but break easy. Volk TE37'z are light and expenzive and are ztronger.

See how stupid it sounds? "my rimz..." ugh.. stupid people.

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$3000 buying and fixing = 13.75 @ 104.8 mph & outhandles most cars on the road. Not bad for $3000.

00accord44

Do you need a hug or something???

Jeebus take it easy there fella

CivicLeader

Yeah bro....
If you hit a curb/pot-hole hard enough..it will bend...or even break a rim.

My experience:
I have a set of 18" Racing Hart M7000's sitting in my living room because I caught the edge of a median and it literally took the lip of my drivers side front rim, bent it back, and proceeded to peel it from the rest of the rim...tire stayed on fine and didn't loose any air...but the rim was totally fukd...they are for sale by the way...cheap!

My brother has 19" Lowenhart LD1's on his 2004 CL Type-S and he just found out that he has a cracked rim...has to either replace it or weld his existing rim....

If you get a set of rims...you now have to be even more careful driving then you ever were before...especially if you have a smaller series tire...the bumps just get bigger and bigger with a smaller series tire...

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