S4Del

So took my curb rashed wheels down to wheel techniques in campbell to get them repaired, repainted. Getting them done up in gunmetal this time.

Just got a call that 3 of the wheels are bent. So, had the wheels on my car for 15k miles total, in California. What are the chances that I managed to bend 3 out of 4 wheels in a year and a half? I am guessing not really high.

Well, I bought them used, they had been 'refinished' and repainted before I got them, and seemed fine. This might even explain the really messed up wear on my yokohama's

So if you buy used wheels, that cost any significant amount of money, get them checked first.

In the end, my wheels will be good as new, Wheel Techniques does amazing work. It will be cheaper than going out and buying a whole new set of wheels, and really no one else has Magneseum Technomagnesios, but still, I am a little ticked off right now.

Andy Hedin

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S4Del

lot of choices. I am not going to pawn them off on some unknowing fool, and I don't feel like going out and spending 2k on rims that weigh 2x as much.

So I get them fixed, repainted etc. Figure they will be better than they were when I had them on the car, since they won't be bent.

Also if they were that bad I would have probably noticed before, so, heres to hoping.

RKA

My friend did her master's in Materials Engineering at Lehigh. At the time, WCC was working on wheel repair techniques, and they sent they repaired sample back to Lehigh, where my friend was analyzing the reworked metal samples. She mentioned to me that cold working a rim (bending it back into shape) would result in a weaker rim, but the hot working techniques that WCC employed resulted in a stronger material than what they started with.

Mike S

this is why when you bend a piece of metal back and fourth, it eventually snaps. It's also why a forged wheel is stronger than a cast wheel.