Well...that sucks

"MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s" (mastermario) 08/11/2015 at 08:26 • Filed to: wrenching, wheels

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So somehow I managed to bend the rim on my vehicle...an F150 with the stock P235/75R15 tires. It went from driving perfectly fine when I pulled into my driveway to suddenly the steering wheel shaking at anything over 50mph when I left 2 hours later. When I had left I heard a faint ticking noise and stopped to take a look but couldn’t find anything obvious. I continued on under 50mph when suddenly the ticking got a lot louder after having stopped at an intersection...I pulled over and noticed red dust all over the front left rim. So I threw on my spare and voila...no more issues.

I took the other rim to a tire shop yesterday to see what was going on and when he put it on the balancer he had me come take a look. The wheel visibly wobbles side to side when it’s spinning and was requiring 10 oz. to balance it. I haven’t the faintest clue how this happened, I hadn’t hit any potholes or anything and like I said it went from driving fine to not while sitting in my driveway.

Damn...looks like I’m getting new rims sometime soon

Here's a much cooler version of my truck

450X_FTW > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 08/11/2015 at 09:26

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Michigan potholes will test the limits of any wheel/tire

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > 450X_FTW 08/11/2015 at 09:55

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i’m sitting here trying to convince myself that’s a paved road

450X_FTW > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 08/11/2015 at 10:12

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real deal.

http://blog.mlive.com/chronicle/2008…

brianbrannon > MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s 08/11/2015 at 13:20

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Clicking noise points to loose lug nuts

MasterMario - Keeper of the V8s > brianbrannon 08/11/2015 at 14:17

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that’s what i thought initially, but they were all tight. these rims had been sitting in storage for a while when i bought the truck last year...there was a raised strip of rust on the inside that is now gone...i think that the rust came loose and was rubbing against the caliper. whether that’s what caused the rim to bend or the bent rim is what cause the rust to get knocked off i don’t know, but i have a hard time believing that a bit of rust bent the entire rim