For the mechanical ones...

[Brian Ski]

How to repair a rim.

What shop would do this?? What happens when the rim disintegrates on the highway at highway speed? Whose fault would that be? Just think when the car goes out of control and hit someone head on.

 

[rkwhyte2]

Hmmm NOPE

 

[LtScott14]

Replace and survive.

 

[Gunmetalgray]

Didn't know OceanGate was in the carbon fiber rim business now....

 

[Brian Ski]

I love the part of I didn't want to put it on the tire machine or it would have broke more. But you would put it back on the car??

 

[hopper68]

Sometimes you just have to tell the customer it is not fixable or that you are not comfortable trying to fix it.

 

[55fairlane]

Scrap the wheel.

 

[bgcatty]

Seriously? Tape inside a carbon fiber wheel to fix a leak caused by a crack? Just wait when the whole wheel disintegrates at speed and the lawyers, rightfully so, will have a field day with the consequences of the repair shop’s stupidity!
Almost unbelievable!

 

[INP8riot]

I don't think them South Carolinah boys is thinkin nothin bout those things!

 

[Ark]

Yeah I'll pass on carbon fiber wheels in general.

Seen some minor dents beaten out of steel and alloy wheels. Remember, it doesn't have to be perfectly straight, it just has to balance on the machine. I think I've maybe seen somebody tig weld a crack once or twice.

Thing is, it takes impacts to crack wheels, and they tend to be pretty catastrophic when it happens. The Venn diagram of repairable wheel damage is pretty skinny, and for carbon fiber like that I don't think it exists at all.

 

[LEaSH]

I’ve got some mountain bike handle bars made from carbon failure. And a Zipp front wheel, too.

Yep, I know that one of those parts is what will likely kill me someday. But it won’t hurt any bystanders like that crazy bastard.

 

[Creedmoor]

Seriously? Tape inside a carbon fiber wheel to fix a leak caused by a crack? Just wait when the whole wheel disintegrates at speed and the lawyers, rightfully so, will have a field day with the consequences of the repair shop’s stupidity!
Almost unbelievable!

Those dam Barristers!!!!
Wait... I live with one.

 

[HoughMade]

Looks like someone making dumb a video to get reactions. It's called trolling.

 

[tmschuller]

Yeah I'll pass on carbon fiber wheels in general.

Seen some minor dents beaten out of steel and alloy wheels. Remember, it doesn't have to be perfectly straight, it just has to balance on the machine. I think I've maybe seen somebody tig weld a crack once or twice.

Thing is, it takes impacts to crack wheels, and they tend to be pretty catastrophic when it happens. The Venn diagram of repairable wheel damage is pretty skinny, and for carbon fiber like that I don't think it exists at all.

Yesh with pothole ridden Indiana.. wise choice for carbon fiber rims on the street.. track??

 

[Ark]

Yesh with pothole ridden Indiana.. wise choice for carbon fiber rims on the street.. track??

Yeah I wouldn't drive that in Indy.

Cop cars have steel wheels for a reason.

 

[HoughMade]

Yeah I wouldn't drive that in Indy.

Cop cars have steel wheels for a reason.

My son has a Crown Vic Police Interceptor and he he keeps talking about replacing his steelies with alloys of some sort....and I don't get it.

 

[Bugzilla]

Any idiot would know you need black duct tape and not silver duct tape to fix that rim! And if you plan to drive over 85 mph, black gorilla tape.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

My son has a Crown Vic Police Interceptor and he he keeps talking about replacing his steelies with alloys of some sort....and I don't get it.

Looks.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

Any idiot would know you need black duct tape and not silver duct tape to fix that rim! And if you plan to drive over 85 mph, black gorilla tape.

Absotively

 

[Creedmoor]

Any idiot would know you need black duct tape and not silver duct tape to fix that rim! And if you plan to drive over 85 mph, black gorilla tape.

3" Black Gorilla Tape is darn impressive.