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Need tire/wheel advice, quick!

by Carbon <nobrac@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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!)
 




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

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