This is an oldie but a goodie…
Quality of metal matters. Legit, high quality wheel manufacturers produce wheels that may bend upon contact with a pothole or something of the sort, but they are supposed to. They don’t however, shatter and explode into pieces like Rotas, Sportmax wheels, etc. You get what you pay for, bottom line. This was caused
Posted by user “Phans784” back in 2007 on the Nicoclub forums…
i got a call from the shop that was putting my new ka in at and it went like this.. ” Your engine is in but your wheel disintergrated when one of our guys was driving it.”
he wasnt kidding apparently, he said he was just going around a turn on the highway (the owner of the shop is a family friend) and bang the wheel exploded. I had a hard time believing that but then i saw it in person. the tire was still on the wheel holding the broken section together. the tire was not damaged at all.
luckly he had an extra set of se-r wheels laying around so i could drive it home
so who knows that the real story is but im very curious to see if anyone else has had something similer happen with their sportmax wheels.
Guess the bike rack and shit ton of stickers was too heavy for the wheels and it exploded, haha…
