I bought these bbs lm wheels from some peice of fucking shit that said they were in “GREAT” shape… they got here today and theres little nicks;/scratches everywhere, which w.e ill powdercoat them, but one issue im having is something rubbing soo hard on the inside of the wheel that the fucking outside is actually raised… does anyone know if this wheel is safe to run or should i return them? I just spent $1,500 on tires so if its ok ill just deal with it and w.e but i dont want my wheel cracking or making my tires loose air
it takes ALOT to deform one of the strongest wheels made, almost 2" wide of a cup formed from whatever was wedged into the wheel/caliper or suspension to cut that 1/4" grove into the barrel.
I have seen CCW’s from track cars get rocks wedged into the caliper and wheel cut a rim in 2 like a parting tool on a lathe.
It looks like a metal suspension component, bolt head or something with a nice square shape to the “cutting surface” contacted the rim and wedged/lathe’d off a good bit of material and deformed the rim too.
the section in red, across the entire circumference of the wheel looks concaved, or bent out from whatever was wedged in there.
I bet if you took a caliper measurement lip to lip across the width of the wheel, the damaged on is slightly narrower because of that concave too, proving my assumption.
I let 3 diff people check em out and i got the one balanced and everything checked out… while its fucked up, everyone said I should be good on the street so I took a substantial partial refund and am gonna roll with what i got… there at mike woods right now getting powdercoated the oem greyish/black color due to them being in less then mint shape as advertised.
