So i just hit a huge pothole and pretty severely bent one of my rims, does anybody know if the city will do anything about my rim? i doubt it but i just want to know, thanks. also im looking up that a place called precision wheel services and they do rim repair, anybody ever heard or tried them?
good luck with that. i hit a pothole and tool out both my passenger side rims and they said oh well thats to bad go use your full coverage.
My brother in law has a claim into the city for a couple of new tires due to a pothole blowout. Still no word on it yet but i'll be sure to update this thread when he hears back. He sent pictures of the damage along with the mechanics/garage report along with the claim. Good luck
I took my Rim to Tires Plus. They tried to fix it (steelies) but i had bent it too much. I know discount tire will look at it too. Just an idea.
Update: so i brought the rim to precision wheels and they almost thought they could repair it... then realized it has a huge crack the length of the rim on the inside of the rim... so not repairable here! more bad news... the rim i purchased is discontinued and dont make it in 18s anymore! haha and looked around on ebay and cant find any... so looks like i may be shopping for new rims. at least the tire appears to be fine. that is till i pull it off the rim and find out forsure. also i got a number to make a claim, left a voicemail ill let you know what they say.. but man this is by far the worse year ive ever seen for pot holes....
Just wait, the pot holes are just starting to grow! They only get worse from here on out. That is lame about your rim.
Insurance is a joke for something like this. It costs you more to claim it then to have it repaired yourself. And the city will likely not cover it. If they do, it will take forever to get them to pay for it. So, what are you stuck with? If you don't have the money, you have to charge the repairs to a credit card, where you'll pay a bunch of interest. I can kinda see now why people drive around on donuts because they can't afford to have their insurance cover it or pay for it on their own.
yeah, we're all victims of the system Or maybe people are just ignorant and not resourceful. The majority of the tardfarms i see rocking temp spares could easily replace their factory 14-16" wheel with a $30 steelie. Anyway, sorry for your bad luck op. At least now you know why some of us buy our wheels in sets of 5 and dump our aftermarket wheels when theyre discontinued (or scramble for spares)!
I do have to say after bending 4 rims over the last 2 winters (yeah I know it is my fault and not pot holes) that steelies and 1" more of side wall is the way to go in the winter. Although 16" steelies are/were $55 (instead of $30) when i picked them up.
Wow, bent steelies that's awesome. Teach me how you managed that . Yeah, 18" in the winter not a good idea, good luck.
Low profile tires FTL. More and more mainstream cars are coming with them. There are gonna be a lot of people in for big surprises when pot hole season gets into full bloom.
You just have to drive with me on the first snow fall of the year! At some point I will find a parking lot or two.... and somewhere along the way I will also find a curb! Two years and running! Next year I am going for the Turkey!
I like rollin' on my 16"s. Even my summers are 17"s and I am really unwilling to ever go larger than that.
Just because a wheel is forged doesn't necessarily mean they are stronger. Wheel designers can design a forged wheel to be the same strength as a cast wheel but the forged wheel will be lighter. If the forged wheel is made to the same dimensions as a cast wheel, the forged wheel will be stronger.
And this is why I use a set of cheap 17's that I got used for next to nothing for a set of winter wheels. And why I avoid driving in the winter as much as possible.
I love sliding in the snow but the potholes are horrible this year. I haven't bent one of my cheap winter 17's yet. However, I will be getting an alignment once the pothole season is over. I used to get one every spring in the WRX, and it needed it every time. Proper alignment really helps tire longevity with awd.
I hit a monster pothole with my motorcycle last summer that bent both my rims and broke a bunch of plastic loose, and I filed a tort with the city. Never heard back from them, but I saw them fixing the pothole within a week! Kinda sucks, but I didn't expect much and insurance covered it.
the MN pothole troubles are just starting. With a 6.2 billion projected deficit this year, one of the first places that state governments start to skimp is road maintenance. They just put it off for a year or two, but its gets really bad.
Maybe instead of buying our loser sports teams new stadiums, we could funnel that money into fixing our third-world **** hole freeway system. Ah, who am I kidding, let's build a ****ing light rail instead. You know, because public transportation is so hip and 'green.' The interstates and highways here are an absolute abortion. We have nearly 3 million people living in the Twin Cities and surrounding suburbs. Almost all of them work somewhere in Minneapolis or St. Paul. And somehow, we still have 2 and 3 lane freeways throughout...hell, 35E, a ****ing INTERSTATE, dips down to 35mph for a while. You know why? Because they insisted on putting an exit on it for every little piece of **** sidestreet that crosses it. And there's alot of them, since they cut diagonally through the damn grid. So help me if I EVER find out who planned the freeway systems here, I'm going to tie them up in my basement and drop heavy objects on their genitals on a daily basis. Especially the Rhodes Scholar that came up with the 494/35W/100 area. That person should be dragged out into the street, whipped and beaten, then dressed in some sort of embarrassing adult baby costume, complete with diaper...then set his ass on fire and let any commuter that has ever gotten stuck in that one-hour-to-go-5-miles stretch of pain to piss on the burning corpse to put it out. But keep re-lighting the fire so everyone gets a chance to piss on it.
Maybe government benefits more by collecting various forms of fees that vehicles bring in...For instance, license plate -tags, road toll fees, taxes from car manufactures, dealerships, fines from speeding tickets, gasoline etc. Hence, building a railway sytem is not a bad idea at all but they probably want squeeze the most out of a car user than train passenger who won't pay all the previous fees.
I don't know a single bus/light rail commuter who doesn't also own a car. This isn't NYC where you can easily get around without a vehicle... plus there are the idiots like myself who make up for the single and double car families :laugh: If I could e-hug you I would! Stock wheels typically make a strong, cheap, and easy to replace winter wheel. The exception being the STi, but if you keep an eye out, there are cheap options (like my $250 set of used rotas, custom steelies for under ~$400 a set, $500 set of take off bbs', etc...). My preference is definitely the smallest size steelies followed by stock wheels, then the smallest size aftermarket wheel with a waxable finish and a spoke design that keeps most of the snow out.
Hate to break it to you, sport, but they're building a lightrail down University with that 1 billion dollar transportation grant from the federal government. They could have used that billion dollars to fix the roads, but instead, they build a ****ing train. People like me, along with many others on this forum, would be more likely to use said light rail system if there was a reasonable way to access it. I live in Cottage Grove, there is ONE bus that goes there and the last one leaves at 7pm. So, if you are running late, and there are retards that can't figure out how to get off the train holding everyone up (and you know there will be, this is Minnesota, omg look at the pretty city lights dontchaknow) you will likely miss your 7pm bus and have to catch a ride home. If you are going to tout this billion dollar light rail as the best thing in transportation since the horsedrawn cart, you're going to need to back it up with proper bus infrastructure. And trust me, we don't have it. And the 100million left over after they spend 900million on that light rail, ain't gonna cover it.
The 45mph speed limit and 9,000lbs truck weight restrictions are the result of concessions(reduced speed, weight restrictions and sound walls) made with the neighborhoods of the Pleasant Avenue corridor during the planning and initial building stages that turned Pleasant Ave into a freeway/parkway. The issue has been taken to court in the past(mid '80s?) and comes up now and then in the legislative sessions with a few proposed bills to try and kill the speed and weight restrictions. All in all the 45 mph section only adds around 10-12 seconds to your trip through it.
Maybe letting the potholes grow to the size of small houses will help enlighten folks - we need to stop FIXING the roads start BUILDING them correctly! Every year we spend $hit-tons of money 'fixing' our roads. Why? Contracts filled by the cheapest bidder with no regard for longevity, safety or accountability. I am firm believer that the contractors should be forced to warranty their roads for at least 3 years - preferably longer. Maybe then they'll stop constructing them out of whatever $hit they're currently using. Roads in other states/areas with similar climates seem to fair much better than ours, so using temperature swings and snow/ice as an excuse is BS - it's pure neglect and shoddy construction/materials/engineering to begin with, forced by the decision makers Ebay shopping for our F'ing roads. "The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of a low price is forgotten" - Benjamin Franklin.
Maybe it is the the intention of the engineers to keep in business by building roads that last for short while. What are the road conditions like in canada or other snowy states? Is it the extreme cold temps that cause the expansion and contraction hence - pot hole formation or is the materials used or salt?
Really? Where? Every time I go on a winter road trip I am reminded that MN winter roads really don't suck THAT bad compared to our neighbors.
Just across the border in WI the roads seem to be much better (94, the alphabets down south, 63/53, hwy 2 up north, 35, etc) and driving from out west on I90, the road turns to $hit just after you cross the border back into MN.
My experience living in WI is part of the reason I don't feel MN roads are all that bad. Subjective opinions I suppose.
haha wow this post brought alot of attention, well i ordered a set of 18x8 rota full royal sports bronze torque rims! going to be sick http://www.wheeldude.com/wdg/_detail.php?pic=4129 ill never learn but these rims wont be discontinued anytime like my old ones that were! lol
I think that every single person in the state of MN should get together with their receipts, photos of damage, and insurance claims and file a class action lawsuit. I just lost another rim and tire to a pothole on southbound 35w. I shouldn't have to pay taxes to fix roads that don't get fixed. And at the rate that i lose rims/tires in this state, i'm going to have to move or get a second job.
I just bent the crap out of a steely a few nights ago and bubbled my tire. Yeah, I LOVE dropping lots of cash on new tires and wheels unplanned for, due to thousands of potholes.
Yes it is. Given how the Twin Cities is laid out, it is the worst possible idea. Aside from the logistical stupidity, it is a HUGE money-suck. LOADS of taxpayer dollars support it for no functional reason other than to inflate the ego of our elected ideologues.
I've gotten calls to play roadside assistance to three separate friends since pothole season started (no jack, cheater bar delivery for impact-installed nuts, no toolkit period). I still don't know how I haven't been a casualty, let alone how my steering wheel is still even with the horizon, I have to drive through a goddamn battlefield just to leave my neighborhood, including one 4ft by 4ft gaping, cavernous, there-should-be-nuclear-fallout-here ****ing crater that the city refuses to repair, instead filling it with ROCKS year-****ing-round just to avoid any major issues (like cars bottoming out and getting stuck). That street has needed to be completely torn up and redone for the past 5 years, and it just keeps getting worse, and all they do is send out crews to add filler, and they usually miss a few of them in the process.
The pot hole in front of white castle on Lake headed towards 35 claimed my front right blizzak ws60. Sidewall got destroyed, luckily the wheel it self was fine. Hardly worn at 10/32
Good ol' pot holes... Too bad Minnesota doesn't have a long, drawn out and expensive construction season! ** wink wink**
