how to bend a car wheel

[DBSV8]

Drove 1000km across Western Siberian last week visiting the babushka ,

the roads were bloody awfull great big holes in the ashpalt , had two punctures and this was the state of the wheel when we arrived ,it was still holding 32 psi .......just




result

[jbi]

I take it alloys are not popular in russia then?

[smele]

I wonder how an alloy wheel would have fared?

On my first trip to the Urals, I noticed lots of poor quality cars. I wasn't long before I realised how bad the roads were and why driving something tasty was not a good idea.

[Bill]

I used to carry a hammer in the footwell for precisely this reason - Hit pothole, leap out, bash wheel back into place before too much air leaks out, reinflate tyre

[NotNormal]

The road looks almost perfect compared to some of the ones round here in Surrey !

[DBSV8]

Bill said:

I used to carry a hammer in the footwell for precisely this reason - Hit pothole, leap out, bash wheel back into place before too much air leaks out, reinflate tyre

thats excatly what we did

[mikial]

Bill said:

I used to carry a hammer in the footwell for precisely this reason - Hit pothole, leap out, bash wheel back into place before too much air leaks out, reinflate tyre

Excellent, that made me chuckle.

[Ozzie Osmond]

It's amazing what can be achieved with a bent wheel, a block of wood and a 4lb lump hammer. I've even straightened alloys this way. Yes you can get an airtight seal again.

[hman]

who nicked a great strip of tarmac off that road?

[heebeegeetee]

You don't have to go to Siberia to do that!

Hurtle down a 'white' at 70 plus anywhere in England on a road rally will do the job just as well.