Could my rims have gotten bent by the tire shop when they changed the tires?:

https://www.s2ki.com/forums/index.ph...&f=56&t=223149

 

they bent in or out?

 

Bent out (i.e. wider at that point). But seems that could happen if I had hit a curb hard too.

 

yeah could be curb, could be the installer screwing up trying to get the tire off the rim.

 

Other thread says it's unlikely the installer if it's on the inner lip. Those damn curbs after the 2nd infield straight at Fontana!!
Can't think of any others that I intentionally or unintentionally ran over.

 

It wouldn't surprise me to learn it was the install/removal process. It was a little disturbing to watch two guys practically jumping up and down trying to seat my Victos...

 

Then again, wouldn't hitting a curb more likely to bend the outer lip? Dropping a wheel and coming back on track would bend the inside though if the track surface was much higher than the dirt. Could have happened at SOW CCW in the chicane after the skidpad, though I don't recall dropping wheel there in the last couple events there.

 

I bashed the inner rims on the chicane after the skidpad going CCW. That was the only place where the car regularly went into and out of the dips behind the berms at that place. It was enough to bork my alignment though...so it wouldn't surprise me if it was enough to bend one of those lighter weight rims a bit.

My alignment could have been a victim of a spin where I also collected a berm on the inner passenger front but I remember bashing some of those berms pretty hard in the normal course of doing business at SOW.

 

My wreck last Friday notwithstanding, you need to learn how to drive.




It's VERY hard to bust a lip from installing a tire. The only way I can think of is when getting the tire itself onto the rim, the lower bead didn't make it into the little "valley" area in the wheel, and thus tightened up big time. If the machine doesn't back up, the only way to get it off is to go all the way around. That could've possibly been the cause, but even at that it's very, very unlikely.

 

usually when the tire stops moving on the wheel, the machine will stop spinning. You then have to back up a little, and like what the dude above me said, you have to place the lower bead to the center of the rim where the diameter is smaller to get the rest of the tire on. I think it would take a very heavy, blunt hit to bend a wheel such as hitting a steep curb at any speed with the weight of the car. I don't think a tire machine would bend a rim.