Botus
Senior Member
you can have screws and nails in tyres for months, the vast majority hold air no issues at all - it wouldn't surprise me if a survey was done 40% of cars would have at least one punctured tyre on the car. In fact where I live I'd wager it will be way of 60% - When you ride a bicycle you can see and thus pick up a handful of nails tacks screws and stuff every ride.
And if you look at cars in the UK we'd see
18" wheels I bet 10% have a cracked rim
19" wheels I bet 20% have at least one cracked rim and an oval inner
20" wheels I bet 35% have at least two cracked rims and an oval inner
21" wheels I bet 40% have at least two cracked rims and all four have an oval inner
A mate just started doing some ad hoc stuff for a bloke that runs a wheel refurb business - they spend their life welding wheels and claim BMW and Merc are by far the worst wheels out there. With the finish clearly half as durable as the industry standard and the worst for getting cracks - yet he's been told Germany don't believe they build faulty wheels as there is no issue at home - but acknowledge there is a severe issue in the UK with wheels failing
they got off !
In 2015, the Mercedes-Benz S550 cracked rims lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey – Luppino et al. v. Mercedes-Benz USA LLC. The plaintiffs accused the car company of manufacturing and selling cars with defective rims that bent, warped and cracked in typical driving conditions.
The class-action lawsuit included nearly 1.6 million owners of Mercedes vehicles equipped with 17-inch, 18-inch or 19-inch AMG or non-AMG rims. The affected vehicles included any 2006-current models equipped with those rims.
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