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Need tire/wheel advice, quick!
by Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Feb 15, 2008 at 02:09 AM
| I have an 04 MSM with 17" Racing Hart wheels. About 6 months ago the city
scraped the road I take to work and the next morning I whacked both right
rims on a manhole which was sticking up probably 2" from the roadway.
Nose to tail traffic, I didn't even see it.
Both right tires have been leaking air ever since, about 10 lbs/week.
Today I got a (non-repairable) flat on one of the left side tires. The
tire shop checked out the tires and found the right front is noticeably
out of round, the right rear slightly less so. They thought possibly the
rims could be repaired but didn't know of any local shops that did it.
Some options, keeping in mind the car has 30k miles and I need new tires
anyway:
1. Buy new 205/17/40 tires and get the rims repaired. How expensive is
this? In general, how repairable are tires like these? I'm worried that
being aluminum alloy (I think) they have been weakened and will be more
susceptible to damage in the future. I'm in Central Florida.
2. Get new 16" wheels and 205/16/45 tires. The current 17" wheels are 17
lbs each and I will not be considering anything heavier. I'm considering:
OZ Crono HT's, 15.5 lbs, 42mm offset, $203.
S****t Edition D4's, 17 lbs, 38mm offset, $75 (closeout).
The OZ wheels look much nicer, very close to my current Racing Harts. I
had pretty much decided to get those until I scrolled to the bottom of
the page and saw how much cheaper the S****t Editions were. Which wheel is
likely to be stronger? Otherwise, does anyone know of a strong, light,
cheap 16" wheel?
Tires. I'm not too which is the best deal price performance-wise.
Throwing cost out the window, it'd be OZ Crono's and Goodyear Eagle F1 GS-
D3's.
What do all you experts think? (Quickly -- I'm driving on two bent rims
and a space-saver spare!)


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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-15 02:09:20 |
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pws <pwshelton@[EMAIL |
2008-02-14 21:14:06 |
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Jazz_Azz <shkarst@[EMA |
2008-02-15 08:54:37 |
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pws <pwshelton@[EMAIL |
2008-02-15 11:32:48 |
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Lanny Chambers <lanny@ |
2008-02-14 21:47:09 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-15 05:17:16 |
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Lanny Chambers <lanny@ |
2008-02-15 00:09:32 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-15 15:01:10 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-15 18:07:35 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-16 01:40:35 |
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shkarst@[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
2008-02-15 18:51:14 |
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Jazz_Azz <shkarst@[EMA |
2008-02-16 09:29:28 |
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Lanny Chambers <lanny@ |
2008-02-16 03:50:48 |
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"Chris D'Agnolo" |
2008-02-16 09:05:10 |
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pws <pwshelton@[EMAIL |
2008-02-16 17:38:11 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-16 20:10:06 |
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Lanny Chambers <lanny@ |
2008-02-16 22:07:31 |
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Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL |
2008-02-24 06:08:09 |
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