Today I washed the car and when I had the right front rim in the work I got a heart attack! The rim border is bent, but still repairable with a hammer I think.

I remember a big bumper in the road 8 days back, but I did not noticed the damage. DAMN, this happend with 225/45/16 tire. I think those light weight rims are not as strong as usual heavier rims. I drove 3 years with 225/35/17 and hitted for sure some bumpers, but nothing happend.

Well, I think that is the price for performance.

Christian - who thinks 5 instead 4 rims would be better.

 

Post some pics.....

 

Do you mean speed bump when you say "bumper"? I'm assuming so. Yeah, those Volks in order to be so light sacrifice a lot of strenght.

 

damn that's shitty!

 

yeah, a hole in the asphalt, speed bumper? I think we mean the same

 

I'm sorry did you say the rim border was bent and you were going to take a hammer to it??????????????????

 

I will bring it to a rim repair shop, I think rims with minor bens gets repaired like this.

 

<--has bent 5

 

I once repaired the inside rim of my niche shocking shocks with a hammer. I covered it with a towel and went to town on it. It stopped leaking air and went back to regular shape. Drove fine until april 25th when my prelude was stolen, the guys took the rims off and resold the car (i think) to some rican and the rican got caught with it. I got it back with prelude si alloys on it. Hopefully the niche's will fail on him and he will die

 

Oh okay. I thought you yourself was going to attempt the repair. I was gonna say you have ***** them me. When I bent my SE-37's the 1st thing i did was take them to a wheel repair place.

 

Ahh, he's talking about a pot hole.

 

Pot hole = \_/

Speed bump = _/\_

And California has its very own rain runoff troughs, which can be worse than either of the above.

 

i think its a volk thing. i have a bent gtn at the moment. i can't feel any vibration, but it is visible to the naked eye. thank god its on the inside lip.

 

yeah, pot hole is the right word.

 

when i first read that i thought you really had a heart attack

 

yep. i'd have a heart attack too if it was mine. but i've done it before on another set of volks, and i had one then... hope you get it fixed soon.

 

WOW! Dude, that sux. If that happend to my TE-37 I would **** a brick. then call the insurance company to get $$$$$. Well anyways I thought the rims were forged so you mustta banged the **** out of that rim. well good day mate.

Jay

 

yea i've seen many a bent te37