Buckled wheel

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January 29, 2009, 22:12 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Oi oi,

Buckled one of my wheels a few months back by slipping sideways in to a curb (patchy road surface, pissing rain, and over-estimated my speed  s:( :( s:( ) - drove the car round since then and it felt fine. Had two wheels replaced just before Christmas and haven't driven the Roadster much. The mk2 broke down so I'm back in the Roadster at the moment, and the back end seems very floaty - would this be an effect of a buckled wheel? And am I going to have to fork out for a new one?  s:( :( s:(

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Anonymous

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January 29, 2009, 22:20 Last Edit: January 29, 2009, 22:23 by Anonymous
I'd check your tyre pressure first.

WillsSayers

#2
January 29, 2009, 22:22 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Tyre pressures are fine (first thing I checked) and I'm not hearing any knocks from the suspension. I'll check the pressures again tomorrow though just to be sure.

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uktotty

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January 30, 2009, 00:07 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
My Missus buckled a wheel REALLY seriously and they managed to straighten it for like £25 BARGAIN!

philster_d

#4
January 30, 2009, 00:20 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Could it have damaged the wheel bearing?

ChrisGB

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January 30, 2009, 01:16 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "WillsSayers"Oi oi,

Buckled one of my wheels a few months back by slipping sideways in to a curb (patchy road surface, pissing rain, and over-estimated my speed  s:( :( s:( ) - drove the car round since then and it felt fine. Had two wheels replaced just before Christmas and haven't driven the Roadster much. The mk2 broke down so I'm back in the Roadster at the moment, and the back end seems very floaty - would this be an effect of a buckled wheel? And am I going to have to fork out for a new one?  s:( :( s:(

Cheers!

So it feels a bit odd after the wheels where replaced. What wheel / tyre combination do you have at each corner now? Are they all around the same miles on the tyres, or are there two new and two old ones?

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spit

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January 30, 2009, 09:08 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Shuffled into troubleshooting - hope you get it sorted matey.

I'd also be looking at tyres as the first port of call, particularly as this started when you changed the wheels rather than when you buckled the old one (assuming you replaced like-for-like on wheel sizes   s:wink: :wink: s:wink:  ).
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January 30, 2009, 09:10 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Hmm, do you have to go to a specialist to straighten out a buckled wheel? Sounds a hell of a lot cheaper than buying (and trying to find) a single OZ Racing wheel......!

Basically I had a puncture in the offside rear. So I had both rears replaced at the same time - Toyo T1-Rs (TR-1s?). The front are about 6 months old but still have plenty of grip on them and besides, it's the rear that feels floaty, not the front :S

The rears are 205's, the fronts are 185's.

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January 30, 2009, 09:13 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Toyos do take a while to de-squiggle and I've had similar rear floatiness when replacing rear F1s but keeping older fronts. It settled after a while but was never as good as an all-round new (or equally old!) set of boots.
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#9
January 30, 2009, 09:31 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Granted a full set of tyres would've been better, but I'd hardly budgeted for having to replace TWO tyres just before Christmas due to a puncture, let alone 4!

I think they've done about 500 miles on them now... If not more!

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kentsmudger

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January 30, 2009, 16:18 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Quote from: "WillsSayers"Tyre pressures are fine ...

What pressures are you running? Try raising the rears or lowering the fronts to reduce floatiness at the back, only needs to be 1 or 2 psi to make a difference.
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January 30, 2009, 17:03 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
I think I'm about 28 / 32 at the moment, something in that region. What would you recommend for 16" Toyo T1-Rs?

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January 30, 2009, 17:44 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
what sizes?
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January 30, 2009, 17:50 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
185 front, 205 rear.

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January 30, 2009, 17:52 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
your sure? those are tsh sizes for 15" wheels, you said you have 16"?
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January 30, 2009, 17:59 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Yep - even just popped out with a flashlight to check!

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January 30, 2009, 18:06 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
well if they were 15" they should be

185/55/15 front
205/50/15 rear

and if 16" rears

185/55/15 front
215/45/16 rear


exactly what width AND profile do you have front and rear?
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January 30, 2009, 18:07 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Front: 185/45/16
Rear: 205/45/16

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#18
January 30, 2009, 18:13 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
with those sizes I'd start from stock pressures

drop teh fronts by 2 psi to help understeer, then add 3 psi all round due to teh sloppier sidewalls

then adjust as neccessary from there depedning on what you don;t like
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January 30, 2009, 18:36 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
So 29 front, 35 rear? :O

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#20
February 1, 2009, 14:45 Last Edit: January 1, 1970, 01:00 by Guest
Ah you're shitting me. Just gone out to pump the tyres up. The fronts are 185/50/16 and the rears are 205/45/16.

****ing stupid **** that I am bought the wrong ****ing tyres. Stupid ****.

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