I've had these on my 06 Ram for about 8 months and when washing it yesterday I found this:






To Discount Tires credit, they are sending a new wheel out to me at no charge..... no questiuons asked. Excellent service by them!
And I really didnt hit anything, some kind of stress crack or something.
Any one else have something similar???

chuck

 

Maybe the wheels max load was exceeded...............

 

i had one of the factory wheels on my travel trailer crack in many places last summer, nothing wrong with the tire. had to take pics and video to show dealer(they are too far away) they claimed i had slammed a curb or something. once they saw the pics, no issue.
glad discount is hooking you up. sometimes things just break.

 

XLR8R had the same thing happen to his wheels!! but I am not sure if they are the same brand as yours, they do look very similar.......
Crazy

 

here is his cracked wheel.....little different from yours.

 

Well its mounted on the left front and I know these are on the "low end" of aftermarket wheels, but my truck sees no heavy duty use at all.
Small utility ATV trailer is about all I ask it to do......I did let my wife use it last Friday

But,

Like I said, the rest of the tire wheel combo shows no damage or any other indication of impact.
I was just posting this out of curiosity and to give props to Discount Tire.

http://www.discounttire.com/dtcs/home.do


chuck

 

Heres a pic of the rim from their site:





chuck

 

Member XLR8R (I think it was him) had a set of Vision Wheels crack just like that. If I'm not mistaken, they are made for America's Tire like the MB Motoring wheels.

 

Ooops, 53 ****** beat me to the punch.....

 

Never mind

 

I almost put a set of MB Motoring wheels on my truck.

They were only rate to 2000lbs or somewhere around that, so I decided not to. The Weld wheels I have are good to 3200lbs each.

The MB Motoring wheels are nice looking, fair priced, but IMO are not made to be used on a diesel truck that is hauling stuff.

 

Now that you said Weld wheels IIRC I think XLR8R's wheels where welds???
where are you XLR8R???

 

Man Tuna what you been doing!! That's scarry!

 

Yep, I have over 5000 lbs on the front end with the 3500 6.7 empty. Start adding any forward weight and some bumps and those light truck wheels will crack. Add a camper in the back or some heavy weight and the pretty wheels will give it up.

 

Vision - who makes 19.5" aluminum wheels (4500# rating) for Rickson, made these aluminum rims that I had a stress crack on:



They have a 3500# rating... maybe I maxed them out!