2 months ago I ran over what looked like an alternator with my left wheel on the freeway at 70mph. Needless to say I was pissed but once out of the car I found no damage to it or the tire. Last week I pulled the front wheels to check the brakes when I noticed a nominal sized lump dead center of the left wheel. damn things bent but only in the middle, now it does not vibrate or anything but I hate that it's there. They are GT7's so my question is has anyone ever bought just the outer wheel assm. since my center part is perfect and a new wheel is $500 or more and if so what dealer will do this for me, Thanks for any help.

 

In my past two plus years of being on these forums, the general consensus for a barrel replacement on Volks has been: "no" you can't switch it out.

Maybe if it was an HRE or some sort of custom wheel, but even at that it'd be alot more than 500 bucks.

Can you take it to a wheel repair shop?
Most places will repair bends on the barrel for around 100 bucks depending on it's severity.

 

Yeah I do live about an hour from a wheel repair shop in houston but I hate to down my car though I may have to, guess 100 bucks is better than 500.

 

wait so your $2,000+ set of rims bent? no way.... volks must suck.

 

It was a hard hard hit, Sounded like a grenade, I believe any other wheel would have completely split open. I'm glad they're are forged.

 

Just 1 rim BTW [thank God].

 

What?

All wheels bend if nailed hard enough.

The only difference is, quality wheels will bend slightly, whereas your average cracker jack wheels will shatter right off and have you spinning into your own fiery death.

 

hehhehehe
someone might be jealous.

 

+1

 

You Give Danville a Bad Rep.



considering everyone there has an SUV on 22"s, i'm surprised you havent seen any dents from running over those wild turkeys down Diablo Road..

 

I give Danville a bad name? Umm considering I made a sarcastic comment about volks... Hmm lets see I have VOLKS ON MY CAR, I have a 440whp car, blah blah blah.... So calm down buddy

 

Sorry to hear that Dave, but your not getting your rims back from me! (hehe) I hate to hear that, it seems you have the same luck as me.........BAD! Just an update, my other 2 rims and 4 tires from STATUS have arrived and the wheels look great on the car. Thanks again and good luck with this endeavor.

 

Glad you like em you'll have to post some pics. of your car for all to see, at least you can't see the bent part from the outside but knowing it's there drives me nuts so I'll be ordering one in the next few weeks.

 

Try buying $5k+ HRE that are banned from IMSA and other road race event due to the wheel crack during the event.. so you can have crack wheel or bend wheel?

 

Yeah dude if you had Axis Heros you might not be posting about this at all.
Volk is king!

NzZ

 

Behind Work and BBS respectively LOL

 

Strength - Volk and BBS is top notch forged wheels. Work is cast wheel.

Styling - Volk, popular wheels designs (ce28n, te37, all the GT wheels, all the SF wheels. Work is ok but seems like the S1's are the only popular design. BBS can only go so far with the same mesh design.

Volk is #1.

 

You're kidding that Work is only cast wheels right? BBS and Work stay true to their roots and do not just release a ton of designs for the sake of it. Look at the Work Equips. It is so old skool that you can probably find an image of it in the dictionary on what a 5 spoke designed rim looks like. If these rims companies were not respected, their designs would not be TIMELESS.

 

I'll admit some of the Work designs are great. But like I said, it seems like only the S1's are popular these days.

And Works are casted. Pretty expensive for a cast weel.