svargas05

I bought the MPP Tira Assurance and I have gotten two tires replaced already at no charge due to a nail being in an unpatchable spot.

They'll also replace rims that are bent.

I'm payin 15 a month for JUSt that which totals $540 over a 3-yr lease.... Much cheaper than tires and rims, I tell you that much.

You just have to negotiate a price.

BBmaxi

iTrader: (1)

if you don't feel vibration and your tires don't leak air then you should be ok.

a bent rim doesn't' always mean u need to replace them.

a minor bend can be rebalanced with weights and get it within balancing specs.

13Maximasv

I paid ~ $230 for a 5 year tire and rim warranty on my 2013 Max

I have bent many a wheel living in CT and MN on my Infiniti.

Factory wheels seem to be much stronger than aftermarket, I have never gone above 17 inch wheels and still have bending problems and I am a very careful driver, roads out here are bad and I recently found ice will bend a wheel as I hit a small chunk that fell off a car in front of me on the highway.


I never repaired an OEM wheel but the aftermarket wheels all bent again ( in the same spot) after being repaired. My thought is that the aftermarket wheels are much softer and that repairing them further reduces reliability

Also, everytime I bent an aftermarket wheel that style was never still in production forcing me to go the repair route


Car and Driver recently tested a newer 5 series long term and bent 5 wheels. They reported the car was heavier than in the past and the wheels were not strong enough.

http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/...ad-test-review

"The bigger problem is that, while the F10 535i gained 193 pounds and maintained its 51/49-percent weight distribution, its wheels weren’t beefed up for the extra 100 pounds carried by the front axle. Our first wheel specialist saw it right away: The wheels are soft. If you do find yourself in the market for a 535i like this one, a word of advice: Avoid potholes."

The Hunter Road Force balancing machine can take out vibrations from small bends but just because places have it ( my local Discount Tire for example) doesn't mean the use the road force balancing and when questioned they admitted they don't have anyone who even knows who to balance tires via road force. I found a shop that works on race cars and they road force balanced the vibration out but it was $45 tire

http://www.gsp9700.com/

Car Addict

I was once told that when using a blow torch to heat up the wheel to soften it and hammer the dent out, puts little tiny cracks in that spot which could cause that spot to be weaker. I have 3 piece wheels now so when the bent lips come, I can just replace that lip and don't have to worry about rims being discontinued.

13Maximasv

Neat video showing how the repair is done

Car Addict

That looks pretty cool.

2young2retire

Add me to the bent wheel group. I had a vibration that could not be balanced out so I called Alloy Wheel Repair In Little Rock to have my wheels checked. Turned out that three wheels were bent. I watched him do the repairs and he had all three fixed in less than two hours. All is good now.