this is my current rim (and yeah, there wanst any point in polishing it, soooo sorry its dirty)

anyhow, if anyone has a set of stock rims or has a chrome rim like this one let me know, ill probably be replacing it. pm me or email me pacman2001@hotmail.com



any hope of repair? and what, if anything, can be done about a blister on the sidewall of the back tire? probably just have to replace it! CRY

 

i have one you can have for like 20 bucks plus shipping. It has a little orange paint on it from the accedent so if you are polishing it that should not matter. Will grab a pic tonight!!

 

Tire will probably need to be replaced. They should be able to tell you once they get it off the wheel and try and mount it on a new one. Fixing woudl probably cost more then finding a replacement one honestly.

 

yeah just get a new one because like lowslowneon said, getting rims repaired usually ends up being what you paid or sometimes even more than the rim itself. That sucks tho man, what did you do curb it?

 

yeah, the rear tire has a NASTY blister as well, but the rim is ok... just sucks as the tires are pretty much brand new

and i have no idea what happened to it. my wife has been driving it for a few months while we were separated. so i dunno, but from the front rim and blistered back tire... it would appear she ran something over???

 

yeah either that or so was driving insane and maybe hit a rock ro curb. women...

 

Well I did that with one of my 17s....it took about 25mph and a change in pavement of about 3 inches to get that kind of damage. But with the stock rims and tires it would have been a lot more then that I would think.

 

no chance in fixing that bad boy

 

You probably could, but when i bent my wheel they told me it was going to be in the neighborhood of 100 dollars and they weren't for sure that they could do it. A new one wasn't that much more anyhow, so I just bought a new one. Well actually I made a construction company buy me one because they were doing construction in the area and didn't have any signs up in the area so I never slowed down at all because as far as I could tell it there was nothing wrong with the road until I got an awaking at about 25mph in a 3" change in pavement.

 

nope they can fix steel ones sometimes, but the aluminum alloy cracks too easily when they try to fix them. that one is probably cracked too. i had one that smacked into a curb and you couldnt see it, but there were spider cracks all over where the impact was. i was going crazy trying to figure out why my tire kept going flat