Warped Rim

frd906 · 28-10-2009, 06:59 AM

hey guys, other day i got told by my fathers mechanic that the left hand side front rim was warped, which is causing the massive wear on the inside, the mags are 18, now he said it was warped by looking at it and watching it as he spun the rim around,

Is there any other way they can tell if its warped or not,

RG · 28-10-2009, 08:01 AM

Take it to a tyre shop and get them to check it, they'll soon find out if they can't balance it.

JC · 28-10-2009, 12:40 PM

Double post....next!

JC · 28-10-2009, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by frd906

hey guys, other day i got told by my fathers mechanic that the left hand side front rim was warped, which is causing the massive wear on the inside, the mags are 18, now he said it was warped by looking at it and watching it as he spun the rim around,

Is there any other way they can tell if its warped or not,

If it has "run out" it's warped. If it's warped just a little bit, they can still balance it to run true/round, but if it's a big warp, then it needs to be replaced or repaired. As RG suggests, take it to a tyre shop and ask for it to be balanced.

frd906 · 28-10-2009, 02:59 PM

cheers

svo supporter · 28-10-2009, 08:17 PM

Generally these sorts of rims, presuming it's fitted to an AU, tend to "buckle" on the inside edge. You could spot it your self, by taking the rim off and rolling it on the concrete keeping an eye on the rim.

As for it causing tyre wear problems. One word Bulldust. Again assuming this wheel/tyre unit has spent it's life on the left front, since the tyre was put onto the rim and your car, I would say it has too much negative camber on that corner.

See how you fair

MNM96 · 28-10-2009, 08:37 PM

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Originally Posted by svo supporter

Generally these sorts of rims, presuming it's fitted to an AU, tend to "buckle" on the inside edge. You could spot it your self, by taking the rim off and rolling it on the concrete keeping an eye on the rim.

As for it causing tyre wear problems. One word Bulldust. Again assuming this wheel/tyre unit has spent it's life on the left front, since the tyre was put onto the rim and your car, I would say it has too much negative camber on that corner.

See how you fair

That's two less than stunning statements!

Firstly, Why pull the wheel off the car. Just jack it up and spin it while looking at both the inner and outer edges to check for trueness!

Secondly, without a picture, or at a minimum a description of the wear, it would be ridiculous to offer a cause for the supposed wear.

To the OP, as previously offered, a tyre shop will check it for nix! While your there, ask them what caused the wear.

And out of interest, post a pic!

Mike

svo supporter · 29-10-2009, 01:05 AM

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Originally Posted by MNM96

That's two less than stunning statements!

Secondly, without a picture, or at a minimum a description of the wear, it would be ridiculous to offer a cause for the supposed wear.

And out of interest, post a pic!

Mike

Oh what a ridiculas statement by yourself. Minimal statemen was made. INSIDE EDGE WEAR. Surprise, surprise, I do wheel alignments for a living and inside edge wear on the left front tyre is camber. If there is inside edge wear on both front tyres, then I would have said POSSIBILY camber or POSSIBLE toe or both.

Now a little bit of commonsense should tell you, if a wheel is wobbling badly from side to side, that would mean it would be scrubbing the whole surface of the tyre, therefore wearing out the whole tread face. However, this one is only wearing one edge. So it can't be a wheel buckle issue.

Think about it

Another query. Does the steering wheel shake? If it doesn't, that means the "buckle" isn't really bad. If it does, it might be adviseable to have the front wheels balanced. It WON'T fix a tyre wear problem, only a tyre BALANCE problem

The Monty · 29-10-2009, 05:39 AM

If its only a small buckle, putting it on the rear will help also.

frd906 · 29-10-2009, 09:59 AM

well when i took it for a wheel alingment at a tyer place in jimmbomba, they set the wheel alignment up, when i got it home the left hand side rim was pointing out and the right and side rim was dead straight, i took it back to them and said there is a problem with the wheel alingment, they said thier is nothing wrong with it, and they set it up so that the car pulls to the left, apprantly all cars are designed to pull to the left, thats there qoute anyways, any one reading this beware of this tyer place only found out this place is s@#T

luckly i have 2 spare rims the same on the car, which are getting tyers on today as i post this, and the 2 other ones on the front will be come my spare mags and tyers

frd906 · 29-10-2009, 10:01 AM

yeh im waitig fo the car to be finsihed today, 2 grand in repairs under the car new tyers etc.

when i get them home will post pic

Mr Hardware · 29-10-2009, 08:19 PM

from my understandings from dealing with many, many, many warped/buckled/bent/destroyed rims from the taxis, svo supporter is bang on the money.

and frd906 do you purposely misspell Jimboomba?

frd906 · 29-10-2009, 08:54 PM

cars back today, they put new tyers on my 2 spare rims, no shaking at all now all gone, but they rplaced alot of front end things. will update with pics when i get back from my trip to glenn innes

svo supporter · 29-10-2009, 09:50 PM

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Originally Posted by frd906

well when i took it for a wheel alingment at a tyer place in jimmbomba, they set the wheel alignment up, when i got it home the left hand side rim was pointing out and the right and side rim was dead straight, i took it back to them and said there is a problem with the wheel alingment, they said thier is nothing wrong with it, and they set it up so that the car pulls to the left, apprantly all cars are designed to pull to the left, thats there qoute anyways, any one reading this beware of this tyer place only found out this place is s@#T

All that tells me is they stuffed up the alignment and gave it toe out and the steering wheel is crooked. Unfortunately the brain isn't working to well this hour of the night to figure out which way the steering wheel is facing.

As for a car going left. That shows slackness where they couldn't be bothered playing round with Casters and possibly cambers to get it driving straight. Unfortunately it's only too common and they've used a bulldust excuse for their slackness. I will add, 99% of the time Casters have nothing to do with tyre wear.