look what i did!

[Pookapotamus]

i dont really know where i did this but i expect when we were down wheeling with the cruzers. luckily i had a spare rim and just switched it over. but it was still holding air and i have been on the highway a couple of times, did not even notice a vibration!

 

[OffRoadNewbie]

  wow nice work Pook !!! Aaron hit a rock that weekend as well but he has steel wheels so a hammer fixed it 

[Rich99]

Ouch! Pook,  do you have an extra rim of the same type? That's pretty amazing in that it didn't leave you stranded.

[morerpmfred]

Same mud hole that tweaked my passenger back rim on the way in and the same mud hole and  where i popped the front passenger bead of my tire on the way out.

The day before I ordered my rims I was driving the work van with alloy rims and did the same thing at idle driving over a curb. The week before I was debating steel or alloys.

[SwampSinger]

that sucks pooks... it will be a tough one to repair. 

get some steelies. they are heavier but cheaper and will bend, not break. You can always put the hammer on a steely if it's bent. I took chunks off my aluminum rims before. There is a place in Calgary that fixes em but I think this is too big of a piece to fix.

Good thing...it didn't rip the sidewall of your new Dick Cepek 

[Justink]

That's one straight piece to have been took off by a rock 

[Bnine]

Steel rims are a poor choice unless its on a dedicated trail rig.

Otherwise their crappy construction leads to constant balancing issues, more frequent death wobble, and increased maintenance requirements on unit bearings and ball joints.

Breaking aluminum rims is so rare its not somethung that should be considered important when choosing a rim.

[Pookapotamus]

once again i am only guessing where i broke this,  so i dont really know what i hit. could even be a series of hits as i dont remember a particually violent hit to that side.

thanks for explaining that billy thats exactly why i went with these rims for now. well untill i can afford a better off road rim cause i am not sure exactly how stong the stock zj snowflakes are. so far this is the first problem i have had with them and if i hit them hard enough to this dammage and only notice it when i was under the jeep doing maintenance, well that works for me!

[mike s]

Steels are generally better off roading, just buy decent ones.  Like alloy for wieght savings, scuffed a couple so far but nothing like yours. Think age and fatigue play a part if they break or bounce off the big clunks.

[SwampSinger]

If you don't mind spending the money; aluminum is the way to go.....I totally agree with Bill.  I did it with Bonnie and her set up is killer. The good quality tires/rims combo balance quite well even if the they were never put on a machine to be balanced.  You pay for what you get. I went with the steelies because I didn't want to spend the $ on a rim that I would beat. Also...at the time, I chipped my aluminum rims at 3 different places when I hit rocks with them. They were stock rims...I'm not sure how good they are... "Stock" might say it all. Yours might have been weaken before and something you hit took that chunk out.

I suggested Steelies because it seemed you were doing a budget build when you were doing your gears on a previous post....and steelies are cheaper.

My steelies suck arse for driving on the road. I don't care because I have hydro assist and the ram is keeping everything in place. My Jeep is not a DD also.

My next tire/rim set up will be with hummer double bead lock rims (if I have low funds) or good aluminum bead locks and good tires.

Cheers,
Dom

[hps4evr]

i think the wheel repair place is calgary wheel??? they can fix that rim i bet. ive seen worse.
downside its probably cheaper to find 4 used rims then have them fix the one. they did my buddies subaru wheel for 125$. and he tore out at least 8 inches of the bead. for him to get a new rim would have been 500$.

[parabs]

Alberta Wheel.

They do excellent work, but as hps4evr says, they are not real cheap.

When I bought my 15x10 MT Classic II's they were $150 each.  I thought that was pretty cheap for an aluminum rim.  A set of 4 for 600.  Used sets of 4 steelies in the same size seem to have an asking price of 400+, from what I have seen...but perhaps they are not selling. 

[Evil-Jeep]

That's one straight piece to have been took off by a rock 

Agreed, you should take it back to whoever did the mounting on your MC's and explain that the proper way to balance a tire is to add weights........ not to cut out pieces of the rim!