Aftermarket steel rim failures

Thank you for that post. I will check mine immediately.

Hi andoland,
I recently bought sunraysia style rims for our caravan (16x7). They were Infinity Brand wheels. On the way back from a northern trip I checked the tyres daily and there seemed to be no problems.

We stopped at Clareview for the night and by morning one of the caravan tyres was flat. I changed it for the spare and inspected it but couldn't find anything obvious. On arrival back home I took the wheel in to the place I bought them from for a puncture repair.

It was found that the tyre was not punctured and that the rim had tiny holes or bubbles in the metal and that the during the flexing etc of the rim the air had found a way through the holes allowing it to deflate slowly.

Needless to say that the rim was replaced under warranty but I was lucky that the tyre went down overnight while stationary and not suddenly while on the highway or outback tracks.

I'm heading out to the shed now to check for cracks as per your thread as well. A bit worrying eh?

Cheers

Checked mine...all ok so far.....have ROH Australia TRAK2 written on them plus date of man numbers as well....how do you identify the dodgy ones ?

This a posting from another website about the rim failures.

Re: possible Sunraysia rim failure warning/Email from Speedy

I received an email regarding a safety warning issued by BHP Billiton
in respect to our white steel wheels which is currently being hosted on your website.

There are a number of inaccuracies in the report, most concerning
being that the wheel in question which failed is definitely not a
Speedy wheel. For your info our wheels have always carried a
red/green pinstripe. The wheel which failed bears red/blue
pinstriping. I can think of at least 3 other manufacturers in
Australia who run this colour scheme so it's difficult to say where
the wheel originated.

I'm sure that you can understand our concern and would appreciate if
you could remove the safety warning from your website until we can
get to the bottom of the matter.

I have been in touch with the minesite to have the matter
corrected/retracted as these type of electronic releases can spread
quickly and quite easily have the potential to harm our reputation. I
will keep you posted on any developments.

Thanks for your time.
Best regards,
Luke Tonkin | Speedy Wheels
Web : speedywheels.com.au

We bought 6 of these "sunraysias" to put on a 79 series ute.

The cartons containing the wheels gave Brazil as manufacturing country. Can't remember the stripe colours, & the vehicle is away at moment.

I'd suggest that these wheels might be less safe than aussie made ones.

Just something else to check regularly, eh?

Bob.

I too have purchased 6 of these sunraysia type rims only to have 3 fail.Mine all failed along a bend line of the rim - one step in from where the lead weights attach on the outside. The first two the tyre shop replaced under warranty but with the third rim I demanded the full set replaced. From my research the only two types of rims to have are either ROH or Speedy. There seems to be other cheaper ones coming on the market but are just not good enough.Mine where replaced with Speedy rims and haven't had a problem for two years now.

I'm led to believe that there are two different quality rims available in this style, one with ?3mm steel and one with 4mm steel. I'm not completely sure of the steel thicknesses, but it was something similar.

The 'cheaper' of the two were apparently sold for about $60 a rim, whilst the better ones were about $110 each.

It's the old adage......you get what you pay for.

I just replaced my old splitties with the Toyota steel 16x8 rims, which look very strong.

Cheers,

Mark

Hello to wheel owners.
Anyone with a set of the Brazil made 16x7 wheels damaged or not I would like to see them, I am in Melbourne, Will pay frieght. Thanks,
Eric