Opinion: WTF happened to this wheel?

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I would do that... But... This is unfortunately my car, the one that I commute in when the weather isn't FJR compatible :)
Ooops...sorry about that. :unsure:

I'm also leaving the possibility open that my wife actually did the damage earlier in the morning.
My wife also suffers from the same memory and situational awareness disorder that my daughter seems to have. In fact I can think of no time where either of them has ever just come out and admitted either being responsible for or knowing when or how any damage to any of our vehicles has ever happened. That's why I keep my bikes locked in my man cave garage and NO ONE is allowed in there without my permission. :rolleyes:
My son said both tires on his jeep went while going around a curve. After some discussion he found the pipe he ran over just barely off of the turn that tore the sidewalls out of his two right side tires. He put his spare on the front and drove the rest of the way home on the right wheel. 1 mile.
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OK, enough of this ****....

Who didn't tear the **** out of, phuck up, blow up, loose, destroy, or burn up beyond recognition Dad's car/truck......

I know I did. And there's no way in hell I'd ever had admitted it...

"I don't know, it was fine when I got home????"

It's jus parta havin kids....

Take a deep breath and go findya a cheap steel wheel....

 
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My ex's tire looked like that when she went around a corner, hit the curb and the sidewall literally exploded. Some people shouldn't have licenses. She was one of them.

Who didn't tear the **** out of, phuck up, blow up, loose, destroy, or burn up beyond recognition Dad's car/truck......I know I did. And there's no way in hell I'd ever had admitted it...

"I don't know, it was fine when I got home????"
I didn't. I bought my own car before I tried doing anything like that. Whenever I borrowed Dad's it always came back with a full tank of gas too. I heard all of my friend's parents bitching about how their kids always left the car sucking fumes and didn't think it was right. They never complained but they did put money in my bank account a few times to compensate me for filling up the gas tank for them.

 
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After close examination... I have a new alternate theory:

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The tires on the vehicle are relatively new (<3 months). Notice that the peeling is right at where the wheel weight was installed.

Any chance a crack was introduced when they installed the wheel weight with Gorilla force? Then eventually either Centrifugal force and/or combined with some pot-hole action got it to give way?

Could my son actually be innocent? Oh the possibilities.

-MD

 
Notice the grind marks above the "fine print" it looks to me like he took a corner a little tight and the wheel hit the edge of pavement or curb. (You can see the grind marks on the wheel wieght also. I had this same thing happen on my RV trailer, the wheel got all marked up. It was steel, but had the same kind of grind marks on it.

And to answer some one else's question about doing this as a kid and not admitting to it. We did more things to the parent's car then they coould ever imagine. Mom finally asked (20 years later) why the car was always washed when we came home, but there was grass inside the rear bumper. We simply told her that she did not want to know. But to suffice to say that lawns were involved. She thought better and decided not to persue any further. :eek: :lol:

We were fortunate and got lucky we never got caught. B) Which is always funning to watch our kids now. They can never figure out how we can tell what they have been up to without asking them. ;)

 
And to answer some one else's question about doing this as a kid and not admitting to it. We did more things to the parent's car then they coould ever imagine.
And for me payback came after Mom died and Dad started driving again. :unsure:

I never knew what he was gonna run over, bump into, get stuck in, run off the road....

My sisters begged me to take his keys away. I just couldn't. He never took em from me...

 
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