Date:         Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:39:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Audi Turbo alloys wheels are ok by me
Comments: To: drillock@EARTHLINK.NET
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what do these wheels by audi look like?

>From: mark drillock <drillock@EARTHLINK.NET>

>
>In my experience on a heavily loaded Syncro Camper, stock Audi Turbo
>alloy wheels are quite strong. I found them much more durable than the
>stock Vanagon alloys. The Vanagon alloys chip, crack, dent, and bend so
>badly that they drag on the brake calipers. My Audi alloys suffered no
>such damage ever even though they were driven on the same roads and with
>even heavier loads. The Audis saw thousands of potholes each, tens of
>thousands of miles of bad Mexican roads with no damage. The VW alloys
>they replaced failed often. I even moved the VW alloys to a lighter
>passenger Vanagon that friends drove along on some of my Baja trips but
>they continued to suffered damage even then to my disgust.
>
>I gave away the remains of my last set of trashed Vanagon 14" alloys as
>I considered them all but useless for hard-core Baja excursions. Driven
>slowly (some might say normally) they are fine.
>
>I never had a problem with stock steel rims though, just the VW 14"
>alloys. I switched to the 14" alloys because they are a little wider and
>within the tire company specs for width in oversize 14" tires while the
>steels were not. 27x8.5x14 load C tires properly inflated. The tires
>were not ruined, just the rims.
>
>Mark
>
>David Brodbeck wrote:
> >
> >
> > 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
> > off while tire shop personnel tried to mount tires on them.  At at least
> > one shop they use a thick plywood shield while putting tires on alloy
> > rims, for that reason -- over-pressure can easily result in rim failure.
> >
> > Check out the aftermarket rims in the local tire shop, some
>time...almost
> > all of them will have a maximum pressure rating stamped inside and it's
> > almost always surprisingly low.
> >
> >

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