Re: wheel no-no's.

[kdbinney@juno.com (Kyle D Binney)]

At the restaurant where I used to work a cool chef had this happen to a
nice truck he used to show that was all done up.  Apparently you are
supposed to carefully inspect rims with the bolts going around every year
for cracks.  He didnt know this till after but unlike the other cars
mentioned his truck rolled a couple times and bent the frame around a
tree after removing acouple.  He was just having fun going home from work
one night. 

Moral, if your rims are like this check them out good.

Kyle

On Sun, 18 May 1997 20:27:45 -0500 (CDT) trnsfrma@ix.netcom.com (Shawn C.
Meze) writes:
>Today I learned that if you own a set of "Sparco Racing Wheels" (thats 
>
>the brand brand name. Im not sure of the actual wheel name but its 
>simular to a BBS RS-II web or mesh pattern.) and you also autox on 
>them, you might just want to get rid of them right now! A friend of 
>mine driving a Honda Civic EX at the track today completely broke the 
>center out of the wheel while going through a mildly long left hander. 
>
>Luckily, there was only slight damage to the car.
>
>While inspecting the rest of the wheels, we found numerous cracks on 
>the remaining 3 wheels. If you own a set, or know somebody who does, 
>look really close where the web meets the rim and also where the bolt 
>holes are. We found cracks all over the entire wheel which is either a 
>
>manufacture defect or they are simply not strong enough for the rigors 
>
>of autox. 
>
>BTW* This is the second autox season on these wheels. (about 18 
>events)
>
>
>Shawn
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