EVO IX vs. Fake Wheels = One FREAKED up CAR
Evolved Member
iTrader: (33)
Joined: Jul 2002
Posts: 5,313
Likes: 1
From: Raleigh, Transplanted from Toronto, Canada
are they Magnesium wheels? looks like it. if so i can see that happening, i seen hair line cracks in magnesium do this before, very little warning signs. she was very lucky. Sad that it happened to such a sweet white ix, sorry about her luck.
edit, if it is magnesium and it did have a hair line crack you should be able to find it or where it started, it will be darker right at the very edge .... just from what ive seen.
edit, if it is magnesium and it did have a hair line crack you should be able to find it or where it started, it will be darker right at the very edge .... just from what ive seen.
Last edited by SmurfZilla; Nov 15, 2011 at 01:46 PM.
Newbie
Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 1
Likes: 0
From: Houston
I work for the engineering department of a large oil company and I know firsthand that casting errors can cause structural defects within the steel. Any number of things can cause those defects (and it's not worth listing here), but the point is that clearly the wheels had a casting defect that caused the wheel to fail when under stress. The point of the matter is that unless the factory has a quality program in place to check for defects before the wheel leaves the factory it's likely these sorts of things will happen.
My suggestion is to get that wheel and have it examined by a metalurgist. If there are injuries, you may have a very solid case for a lawsuit against XXR because of the reasonable expectation the wheel would be able to withstand the usage you put it under.
My suggestion is to get that wheel and have it examined by a metalurgist. If there are injuries, you may have a very solid case for a lawsuit against XXR because of the reasonable expectation the wheel would be able to withstand the usage you put it under.
Last edited by alien_sporez; Nov 15, 2011 at 05:38 AM.
There is no cast steel involved. It's all cast, cast/spun, and cast forged aluminum with finish machining. And if you know anything about metallurgy and studied it, steel is completely different from aluminum in almost every possible way. The lattice is of a completely different structure.
Steel yields and can be cycled infinitely at one half of it's modulus. Aluminum has a finite amount of cycles before it breaks, no matter what the intensity. All aluminum parts will ultimately fail. They all have tons of stress fractures after a few years of use, period.
Steel yields and can be cycled infinitely at one half of it's modulus. Aluminum has a finite amount of cycles before it breaks, no matter what the intensity. All aluminum parts will ultimately fail. They all have tons of stress fractures after a few years of use, period.
That kind of crack won't happen with a good condition forged aluminum wheel or spunrim wheel. I'm betting that is a gravity casted wheel that was not dense enough when made to cut costs
This +1000. Its funny its mentioned that those wheels were bought in order to be used with winter tires but from the pics those tires dont look like winters to me.
complete bull****. There is no evidence to put the story with the pictures.
Notice:
1) gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) gravel in the wheel well
3) missing lug nut
4) the wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. Fail.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
Notice:
1) gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) gravel in the wheel well
3) missing lug nut
4) the wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. Fail.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
Complete BULL****. There is no evidence to put the story with the pictures.
Notice:
1) Gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) Gravel in the wheel well
3) Missing lug nut
4) The wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
Someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. FAIL.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
Notice:
1) Gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) Gravel in the wheel well
3) Missing lug nut
4) The wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
Someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. FAIL.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
This
This
And fixed this for you
This
Complete BULL****. There is no evidence to put the story with the pictures.
Notice:
1) Gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) Gravel in the wheel well
3) Missing lug nut
4) The wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
Someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. FAIL.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
Notice:
1) Gravel in the wheel lug recesses
2) Gravel in the wheel well
3) Missing lug nut
4) The wheel is completely off axis of it's regular position
Someone is trying to pass off a wheel hit hard by a big object as wheel failure. FAIL.
Anyone who knows understands that's not what a wheel failure looks like at speed. In fact everything in the pics supports a collision.
And fixed this for you
I think this is more an issue with lightweight wheels than XXRs specifically... XXRs used to be heavy *** POS and then they became aware of the fact that they needed to make their wheels lighter. Now their weight is comparable to Enkei, Kosei, Buddy Club, etc. but can obliterate if you hit a bad pothole, as is the case with those wheels.
Last edited by ever12; Jul 29, 2013 at 01:10 AM.
