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Wheels, Whats the life span?

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paul_humphreys:

--- Quote from: "landylover" ---Hi Paul
If you are scrapping the wheels & you really want to find out the cause of the failure, remove the defective section (& a couple of complete sections) & I'll do an assessment of the weld for you if you like (under the microscope), thats what I do (amongst other things)

Jeff
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I will let you know. I an not sure about welding them up as if they break and cause an accident who is going to take the fall?

As for warning people off of them. Thats up to them to decide.

Paul

Mart:
but maybe a notice as to the wheels for people who aren't sure of the ones your on about so they can take the fault into consideration before they buy said rims?

landraver:

--- Quote from: "mark.yellow.series.3" ---right. so the weld has cracked?
if anything is welded correctly, the welded joint is as strong (if not more so) than the metal its welded onto. so for the wheel to reach the end of its life then you would see the whole rim deteriate.

if the weld is cracked, the its a defective weld.

after the first wheel went, i would sent it back and not use that company again, as there welds obviously arent done properly or checked, and if it broke on the motorway we might not be talking to you now.
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Mark's right, If a weld is done correctly, on a correctly designed component, in the correct position, the parent material will generally fail before the weld.


Jeff
Jeff

Edge:

--- Quote from: "Mart" ---but maybe a notice as to the wheels for people who aren't sure of the ones your on about so they can take the fault into consideration before they buy said rims?
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Yes tell us who dont know.......... you may help save someones wife/child/brother/sister dying in an horriffic road accident :shock:

If theyre selling faulty goods, you should be phoning trading standards and the press......This is quite serious.

If theyre the same as my wheels?????....... it'll be on the news pretty sharpish.

Xtremeteam:
Right:

Please dont any of you take this the wrong way but im gonna say it anyhow,


its a know fault of these 5 spoke rims to crack where the spoke meets the outer rim,be it pash welding or poor materials i know of 2 different folk who have had 2 sets each before this fault was cured,paul unless you bought them brand new recently yours could be a set out of the old batch when the manufacturer was getting the outer rims rolled out house,

personally i would still buy a set of these rims as AFAIK the only rims that are cracking are those from the same batch which IIRC would make them approx 3 years old,


Landylover is correct in that the material will fail before the weld & jarrod i think informing the press etc is a pretty big step to take,

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