Prostars cracking at every spoke
On The Tree
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Kansas City
Weld no longer offers a 5x5 bolt circle for that very reason. The applications are more than likely to heavy for the load rating on the wheels. I feel that this defect is due to some abuse put on these wheels from past owners.
Kev D
I'm surprised no one has had any smartass comments referring to never using these wheels and why they went with "X" brand.
Go figure, another wheel breaking, who would have even thought this could happen.
Good to see you noticed the cracks. Good luck!
Go figure, another wheel breaking, who would have even thought this could happen.
Good to see you noticed the cracks. Good luck!
Launching!
Joined: Oct 2007
Posts: 207
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From: LSU - 2007 National Champs
Glad you caught that before anything serious happened. That could be disasterous if they came apart while flying down the track...even with 1.7 shorts.
I can't see Weld doing anything about them as they were used when you bought them, unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong about that my friend.
Good luck.
You read my mind Steve.
I can't see Weld doing anything about them as they were used when you bought them, unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong about that my friend.
Good luck.
You read my mind Steve.
How long have you been running without centercaps? the inside of the rim has a loose "spacer" inside the wheel that would allow water to accumulate inside them, and just from the stains where you would put the lugnuts i can tell your wheels have been rusting for a bit
my guess is they sat too long with some salt water in them.
however even with the rust your cracks look more like imperfections in the aluminum than anything. my pro star setup has over 20k miles in daily driving with no issues but i never let them look that dirty
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Glad you caught that before anything serious happened. That could be disasterous if they came apart while flying down the track...even with 1.7 shorts.
I can't see Weld doing anything about them as they were used when you bought them, unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong about that my friend.
Good luck.
You read my mind Steve.
I can't see Weld doing anything about them as they were used when you bought them, unfortunately. Hope I'm wrong about that my friend.
Good luck.
You read my mind Steve.
How long have you been running without centercaps? the inside of the rim has a loose "spacer" inside the wheel that would allow water to accumulate inside them, and just from the stains where you would put the lugnuts i can tell your wheels have been rusting for a bit
my guess is they sat too long with some salt water in them.
however even with the rust your cracks look more like imperfections in the aluminum than anything. my pro star setup has over 20k miles in daily driving with no issues but i never let them look that dirty
my guess is they sat too long with some salt water in them.
however even with the rust your cracks look more like imperfections in the aluminum than anything. my pro star setup has over 20k miles in daily driving with no issues but i never let them look that dirty
Not trying to be an ******* or rude by any means, but that is just way to far fetched to believe. It's an all aluminum wheel, yes IF the wheel was sitting in the ocean for years it could possibly make sense, but center cap or not, water would get in, and not damage the aluminum to the point of failure.
Would you trust a wheel that was welded and grinded down?
Kev D
On The Tree
Joined: Jun 2009
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From: Kansas City
First of all I would never trust any wheel that had been repaired by welding it back together. Secondly leaving the caps off this wheel does nothing to harm the product at all. In most cases you have to run without caps to drag race. All manufactures have had product fail from one thing or another. This looks like a case of a product reaching its limits.
How long have you been running without centercaps? the inside of the rim has a loose "spacer" inside the wheel that would allow water to accumulate inside them, and just from the stains where you would put the lugnuts i can tell your wheels have been rusting for a bit
my guess is they sat too long with some salt water in them.
however even with the rust your cracks look more like imperfections in the aluminum than anything. my pro star setup has over 20k miles in daily driving with no issues but i never let them look that dirty
my guess is they sat too long with some salt water in them.
however even with the rust your cracks look more like imperfections in the aluminum than anything. my pro star setup has over 20k miles in daily driving with no issues but i never let them look that dirty
we don't have salt on our roads obviously down here.
EVEN IF that was the case its an aluminum wheel...not steel.
Chad
SJM-If anybody would make a crack at whatever wheels he or anyone uses. The mods police would imediataly slam them for what ever they said. Kev-hope you can get fixed up with another set-or something simular-car looks killer on a 5 spoke design.
Launching!
Joined: Jun 2006
Posts: 200
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From: Arizona
Yikes, that is scary. This same thing actually happened to my step mom's C5. It used to have chrome wagon wheels equipped, but about a year ago they all began developing cracks on the spokes. Kind of an odd thing to happen on something that doesn't really weigh a whole lot.
