So, it's last Friday on way back home from a night out for my boy's birthday, I fell a sleep at the wheel. I wrote up to a bang no louder than you would heard when you hit a pothole, and I realized I drifted like 2 feet from my lane into the left shoulder. I stopped, put on my hazards and stepped out my G, looked at my rims and I also **** myself. Being that I was only like 2 minutes from my house I drove my hurt G back home. I checked out the damage on Saturday morning when I get up, and it was not as bad as I thought, I chipped some paint off on my front fender, and I have a few other small scars. However it's nothing a little touch-up paint, wet 2000 grit sandpaper, and my Porter cable can't fix. Now to big problem, I have set of new forged rims in my house, but they still need to be striped, and re-powder coated (I already striped one down, and I don't want to look ghetto but throwing them on), and I sold my stock 19" a while back, so I was rimless. Lucky me my friend just got new rims that Thursday, and is stocks were still at the tire shop with tires. So I'm borrowing his stocks for now, until mine new one are powder coated, and I buy some new tires. When I removed my destroyed rims, I was happy to find I have no major damage, no bend Camber arms, tie rods, toe arm, etc. The only thing is a slice in my rear plastic fender cover thing.

And Yes I know you get what you pay for, but when I got these rims 3 years ago, I didn't know anything about forged vs cast rims, the only thing I cared about was non 5 spoke Black rim with a nice Chrome lip.

Thanks to 3Buddha5, Blkout350GT and jtcohen:biggthumpup:

Now for the pictures.

My rims Before


My front After



My rear after



My slice fender plastic cover and chipped paint



As much as this sucks, It could have been way worst, I'm thankful it was not. So there are two live lessons to be learned here:

1. DON'T DRIVE WHEN YOU ARE TRIED.
2. DON'T BUY CHEAP CASTED RIMS

My rims were made by Speedy wheels, the model was the Octane, the specs are {Front: 19 x 8.5 + 20 offest, Rear: 19 x 9.5 +30 offest.}

 

DAYUMMM You ****ed those rims up man. I fell asleep at the wheel a month ago and ended up with nothing more than a bubble in my tire. I guess I got lucky.

 

wow look at those rims are messed up.. look at the bright side, you can get some real rims now

 

woww...

not all cast rims are bad.. my works at "cast".. but hte casting proccess is a lot diff then wheels made by companys like "speedy" or "ruff racing" etc etc/

 

That why I said "cheap" cast rims

 

A pothole can destroy any wheel. A $100 wheel or a $1,000 wheel.

 

looks like your fender are rolled now..

 

lol ^

 

glad your ok man...damn a red bull woulda gave you a buzz long enough to last the 2 minutes home lol. sorry see your rims busted but its a excuse to buy new rims!!

 

wow those rims = FUBAR

glad to see the damage was not much worse.

 

ouch..

 

Man at least you and the car are ok cause a lot worse things could have transpired.

 

+1, pothole messed up one of my advans. nowhere near that much damaged but lip is bent some and still have to see if I can get it fixed somewhere

 

I hit a manhole opening with my rear rim and nothing happened, it was crazy, but a bolt in the rear shock mount snapped, thank god!!! lol

Ouch though, time for new rims!
Side-note, I was watching Home Improvement today and on Tool Time it was gadget week or something, and they had this little device you put in your ear and when your head starts to lean, it makes an alarm sound. Invest in that! :P

 

wow those things got messed the f up. now buy some better ones.

 

no doubt...plus 1 glad youre ok..

reason to buy new shoes... christmas shopping list, just got expensive but short...

 

^I got new rims, remember I PM you a pic, it was around the same time you got your first set of Gold Works.^

Anyway thanks everybody for seeing that I'm ok. I had my new rim setting in my house for some time now, they been waiting to be powder-coated. I just got a quote from the local powder coating shop, and they said it would cost about $90 a rim the strip my current ****-poor powder coat job, and redo them.

 

^ yeah I remember now....im old...lol

 

Wow that sucks! I remember way back when in 97 when I just got my brand new SE-R and with less then 2000 miles on the odo and not even my first car payment I fell asleep and cost 7000 of damage. I guess it coulda been a lot worse but glad you were ok dude.

 

Thanks