[s-cars] Can this wheel be repaired?

[Michael Lardizabal]

Probably could be welded, but the problemo is that these 20's need to run 50  series lo profiles IIRC, and any weld would probably just undo itself.

I fubar'd my 18'' wheels once at a road owned by both our local town  and a Cracker Barrel restaurant. Went over a  Mt St Helen's size crater right where the  town road kissed the CB"s entrance, said crater was full of water during the downpour so I had no chance in hell of avoiding it. That wheel was a pretzel when it was all said and done.

I promptly went into the restaurant, spoke to the manager. It took some hollering, but CB finally agreed to pay for a new 18in wheel and Conti tire .

Tell yer friend to fight the city or township.


--- On Fri, 4/3/09, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> wrote:
From: Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Can this wheel be repaired?
To: 
Cc: "s-car-list at audifans.com" <s-car-list at audifans.com>
Date: Friday, April 3, 2009, 3:23 PM


Um, that would be two front *tires*. Doh.

Lee

On Fri Apr 03 14:07:06 CDT 2009, Lee Levitt <lee at wheelman.com> 
wrote:

> RimPro would not repair a wheel that has been cracked.
> 
> Maybe it's the legal liability they don't want to take on, but if 
> I were the owner of that wheel, I'd find the pothole that did it 
> and ask the town for reimbursement for the $600 wheel, the $200 
> alignment, and the replacement of the two front wheels at $500.
> 
> Lee
> 
> 
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