Wheel Design

[Larry C Leung]

I've had more problems with the orignal UrQ style ronals on both my 4KQ
and my winter wheels on the 200 with snow (which gets stuck in the
spokes) than with open smooth spoked wheels. Didn't seem to effect the
braking. The sad part is the steel OEM style rims I used to winter with
my GTi for 3 seasons never had the problem of loading up with stuff.

LL - NY

On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 22:34:53 -0000 "Iain Atkinson"
<iain.atkinson at tesco.net> writes:
>Hi all,
>
>just wanted to share this with you, i have just come back from New
>Year's at
>my sisters in the north of England, both journey's on heavily
>salted/gritted
>motorways. The wheel's i have on  my coupe q are not the original's
>they are
>an aftermarket 5 spoke (fitted by the PO not me), now i noticed a few
>times
>that after driving for a while without the need for braking, when i
>did i
>got a really brake judder, a few hard applications of brakes no
>judder.
>
>When i came to wash the car this pm i all the crud on the wheels fell
>off as
>i hosed it down, including on the inside of the rim, now i can only
>assume
>all this crap was going of the disc and pad before hitting the inside
>of
>rim.
>
>BTW this is the first car i have ever owned with wheels that are not
>the
>original, i am just wondering if the open design of the rim caused my
>braking problem.
>
>
>Iain
>