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General => General discussion => Topic started by: VeeDubGTI16v on 18 November 2004, 19:12

Title: owners of split rims
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 18 November 2004, 19:12
....have you taken your wheels off for winter yet :D
Title: Re: owners of splitties
Post by: Veedubgt18v on 18 November 2004, 22:20
i thought you meant splitty bugs and buses  :-[
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 19 November 2004, 00:32
oops :D
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: Gambit on 19 November 2004, 13:23
mine were taken off about a month ago and sent to be refurbed ;D (hence the sig)
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: ...joe on 19 November 2004, 19:48
yeah i took mine off a while ago, they needed a good clean anyway so its sitting on old rallye sebrings for the sh!tty months!
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 21 November 2004, 22:31
put the old wheels back on, with the budget sh!t tyres on with the 60 profile, dont feel half as stable, and one of thems seriously unbalanced :'( bah you cand drive quick in the winter anyway
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: Blue MK2 on 21 November 2004, 23:11
out of interest. how bad do splits come out in winter?

do they mess up big time? after some myself thas all
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: VeeDubGTI16v on 22 November 2004, 10:40
not sure how bad, but i can see the salt trying to get in the 'split', i got bare allu rims too so the salt will proper attack that >:(
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: Fielder5757 on 22 November 2004, 14:15
If water gets under there and freezes it will expand, Snapping the lip of the rim  :-\
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: topher on 22 November 2004, 14:54
Quote from: Fielder on 22 November 2004, 14:15
If water gets under there and freezes it will expand, Snapping the lip of the rim :-\
that'll only happen if they aren't water-tight, and if they aren't water tight,then they aren't air tight. if they aren't air tight.. best buy some run-flat tyres ;D
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: ...joe on 22 November 2004, 18:33
they are hard enough to keep clean in the summer with polished rims so i dread to think what'd happen in the winter! before i refurbed them they got corrosion around some of the bolt holes so i can imagine them getting f**ked up and badly pitted with all the nasty salt and sh!te on the roads. you'd have to clean them every day!
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: jettaTx on 23 November 2004, 17:12
Yeah im changing my ones back to the standard 16v rims for winter still a nightmare to clean but im not as worried about corroding these rims!!
Title: Re: owners of split rims
Post by: G6dub on 24 November 2004, 14:36
No mine stay on all year round, I just don't drive it much in the winter