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Nov 28, 2011 | 07:51 PM

#5641

Southwade

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Re: Dook status

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Originally Posted by lbs_ft

correct me if I'm wrong, but any tire would react like that if you bent the wheel and had a blowout, right?

that'd be my guess...

Nov 28, 2011 | 07:52 PM

#5642

Halfrican

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Re: Dook status

Why was it so easy to bend the wheel though? That is the point everyone is trying to make...

Nov 28, 2011 | 07:54 PM

#5643

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Re: Dook status

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Originally Posted by Halfrican

Why was it so easy to bend the wheel though? That is the point everyone is trying to make...

big. deep. hole.

edit:

plus speed and low profile tires.

edit 2:

or maybe he hit a curb?

Last edited by Southwade; Nov 28, 2011 at 07:59 PM.

Nov 28, 2011 | 08:02 PM

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lbs_ft

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Re: Dook status

are you kidding? look at the dish/lip of that wheel. no strength to the outside of the wheel + pothole = death

Nov 28, 2011 | 08:03 PM

#5645

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Re: Dook status

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Originally Posted by lbs_ft

are you kidding? look at the dish/lip of that wheel. no strength to the outside of the wheel + pothole = death

This + the shitty tire profile will do that to you. That's why in the 30's tires were massive as hell, the tire WAS the suspension.

Nov 28, 2011 | 08:12 PM

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lbs_ft

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Re: Dook status

that's why I drive the speed limit and watch the road, no problems for the past 2 years of daily-driving deep dish wheels with stretched tires

Nov 29, 2011 | 11:38 PM

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Nov 30, 2011 | 11:17 AM

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Nov 30, 2011 | 08:41 PM

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Re: Dook status

I know that's an Impreza front end, but what's the car? Cavalier?

Nov 30, 2011 | 08:43 PM

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Halfrican

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Re: Dook status

Is it a probe?

And batman, ytf is that bmw in here?