Guys, i hit a dam pothole last night on my right front rim. Got home and took the wheel off, the front was not bent at all but it does have a slight bend towards the outer lip on the back of the rim. When i was driving down the highway this am i could start to feel it vibrate and shake but the alignment is fine. Do you guys think my rim is trashed or maybe just my tire is bad now. I have bent rims worse than this and didnt get the vibration. Do i just mabye need to take the tire in and have it rebalanced. Any imput??? Thanks

 

It is out of balance, so you will need to straighten and rebalanced. Some times depending on the weight of the rim, where the original weight position, and the balance, just a rebalancing without straightening wouldnt fix it.

 

Like i said the bend is not bad, hopefully a rubber mallet and balance can fix it.

 

try that out first, if not take the wheel to a repair shop and have them fix it.

 

I think if you can take a good picture and share with us, that should get the issue resolve more quickly.

 

From your explanation your wheel took a nasty hit, enough to bend it. From my past experience on my old wheels once you have a bend that's an indication that the wheel in it's entirety is out of round. So balancing might help reduce the vibration, but your best bet is to replace it.

 

After you get the vibration resolved, it wouldn't hurt to have our wheel alignment checked. While it might seem ok, a pothole can put it car out of alignment. Same thing happend to me a couple of years ago. But I hit one on the expressway that resulted in a cracked rim with a slow leak. Had a nice bubble in the tire too. :-) Tis the season....

 

If I were you, I would just get a new wheel. Reasons being, LC818 would be $300 or so? Also how much would trying to figure out a problem cost? Because it can be a few things $150 total or so? I would do it for piece of mind alone.

 

Very small crack, gotta a guy that does 40 wheels a day, he said its a easy fix. So ima give it a shot before i pay 350 for a new one and id have to wait over a month to get it anyway

 

this thread is worthless with out pic

 

Sorry man, they wheel is at the repair shop or id put up a pic