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catastrophic BMW wheel failure
Check this out. Pretty scary, but you have to wonder what the car has been thru that triggered this.
http://www.bmwland.co.uk/talker/viewtopic.php?t=41800
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12-26-2006, 06:53 AM
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Never seen a 3 piece BBS wheel do that. Even though the car looked seriously neglected, that should not happen. Scary.
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Does he every wash his wheels! I can hardly believe he missed those cracks before this.
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In Aust. we have a problem with chinese copies of "brand name" alloys...and there have been reports of this sort of thing. How sure are we that it was a genuine BBS and not a copy?
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Yeah, I think there is a lot of info missing here.
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There once was a young Porsche Shop owner that fixed a wheel on his 912...while going up the 15 headed for Vegas doing over 100, the wheel failed and he was a DEAD young Porsche Shop Owner.
The following owner kept the business for about 5 years, and sold it...retiring to his sail boat and sailing the world. He had a little side business of selling herbals A guy named Glenn Ye bought the biz ....kept the biz for a long while and then maybe??? resold it...the guy who bought it got picked up by the BATF after Oklahoma for having explosives.. Glenns is on Foothill Blvd out in San Dimas just west of where Foothill meets Baseline Road and the 210 Freeway.
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I know they bend easily but I have never seen them break. He must have hit one hell of a pot-hole.
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Re: catastrophic BMW wheel failure
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That's almost certainly not a BMW wheel regardless what they're saying. It's much like a BMW Style 5 but seems subtly different. The rim isn't quite right. Too bad the rim bolts can't be viewed, BMW composite wheels actually are made by BBS (some of them anyways), I have a set of Style 42's that were OEM on a BMW e39 530i, and the BBS letters are stamped into each titanium bolt head. |
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