In a message dated 7/16/03 3:56:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, gull@GULL.US writes:
> I don't buy it. Steel wheels are tremendously strong and I've never seen > one fail, on any vehicle...by contrast, alloy wheels get bent by potholes > here all the time, and there are stories of pieces of the rim exploding > ive got at least half a dozen bent steel vanagon rims here in a stack of wheels. anything will bend, steel or alloy. never say never. chris |
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