Bent Aluminium Rim
#21
05-24-2010, 06:42 PM
Yep. It is a shame that you can only get about $15 for a used aluminum rim. I had a driver who bent one a couple of years ago and I believe that it cost me $400 to replace it.
By the way, the only way that you can tell the rim is bent is by rolling it. When you look at it you can't tell that it is bent. That is one reason that I would like to salvage it, if possible. That and the $350-400 for a new aluminum rim. I would break out the duct tape, if I had to. 
#22
06-09-2010, 05:16 AM
You can buy used ones from a junk yard for $100 each. I bought four 24.5 aluminum inners from C&H in Westmoreland, TN and have had no issues with them.
A bad rim can kill a tire repairman. I did my car's Alba rim with a bottle jack and got it back to where the ride was tolerable. Unbelievable how elastic that aluminum was when I jacked it. But a truck rim... A CMV tire is a 100psi bomb waiting to go off if anything breaks. That'll take a guy's head off. Just Google stuff like "died - killed - truck tire - exploded". That's not something to cheap out on. Seriously.
__________________
The reason I'm a narcissist is cause everyone else is so lame. |
|
