Cracked wheel.
2001 Chevrolet Corvette wheels complaints
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I had a flat tire. While looking for the cause I found that it was a cracked rim. After looking at my other rims I found another one cracked, but not leaking. I have a 2001 chevy corvette with the y2k style, highly polished, thin spoke design rims. The car has 59,000 miles but the cracked rims only have 55,000 miles. The right rear was the one with the large leaking crack, and the left rear was cracked but not leaking. The front rims do not appear to be cracked at this time. I have ordered four new aftermarket rims to replace my cracked oem gm rims.
1. 50,000 miles of driving 2001 corvette. 2. Cracks have appeared in both rear wheels where the spoke transitions to the rim . Possible catastrophic failure and vehicle crash. 3. Stopped driving the car until I can replace the wheels.
While waxing the factory polished spoke wheels on my 2001 corvette yesterday (saturday april 23, 2005, I noticed one of the wheels, left rear, has a crack where the spoke joins the rim. Based on information provided on the corvette forum by members with identical problems, I am very concerned. My vehicle is out of warranty by 16 months, but this still seems like a dangerous issue. The link to the particular forum posting is: http://forums.corvetteforum.com/showthread.php?t=1072167&forum_id=103 the photo that appears first is of my wheel. It is currently approx. 3/4" long. *jb updated 05/01/06
Problem with 2001 chevrolet corvette. *mr the rear left wheel with no impact had experienced a hair line fracture. The crack was so deep that the computer indicated the tire pressure to be 10 psi. The consumer also owned a 98 chevrolet corvette where a piece of metal had fallen of the wheel along with the coating. An inspection concluded that the coating is a clear material and was likely to either have been improperly applied or is not suited for southern fl. Up exposure.
A deep and long crack was on the rear left wheel, which caused air to leak from the tire. *ak
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