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austin1346
01-08-2024, 07:17 AM
On the way back from vacation I ran over what looked to be 1 of 2 baseball sized chunks of snow. They looked exactly just like dirty snowballs that a plow pushed out in the road. I dodged one but ended up hitting the other square on with my 2 rightside wheels.
Apparently they were not snow because they bent my passenger front wheel and punched a hole through my passenger rear wheel, clean through. Obviously both tires are bad now too.



I'm currently running 1 mismatched wheel that's the exact same size as the others, except the offset is 10mm greater inwards. They only had one wheel in stock and that was the one.

So far I've driven about 600 miles on it and notice no difference.

Is it safe to continue driving with this 1 off wheel until I can get a set of replacements?
I don't want it to mess with the drivetrain or anything.

OliNix
01-08-2024, 11:48 AM
So long as it clears the brakes you will be fine.

The suspension setup will be a bit off, but I imagine you need a significant alignment doing anyway after that impact

Nillious
01-09-2024, 10:45 AM
Where you get into trouble is when you run on different outer diameter tire sizes. Just make sure they are the same