scraping Stebro on speed bumps

[Tessie McMillan]

Hey Zsolt!

I have a feeling someone's going to bring up the subject of "un-sprung
weight" here and "dis" me totally... but that aside, I've been told by
alignment shops and mechanical engineers that the lightweight alloy wheels
damage easily on potholes and speed bumps. I assume this means a bending
or flatspotting on impact. Since my front wheels are especially prone to
getting bent, I would imagine the weight on the front of the car is a
factor in the impact. One of my friends ruined his HRE wheels (in his
Alfa Montreal) on FIA curbing at PIR (but admittedly, his tire profile
was SO low, upon consideration he decided he shouldn't have been running
that set of wheels with those tires on the track at all).

Tess

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Zsolt wrote:

> how do your wheels get bent from speed bumps?
> Zsolt
>