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03-03-2019, 04:54 PM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 32
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Bent rim. Dang dang dang. Advice?
2017 fuse 23a heading to SoCal. I 40 W Just east of Gallup nm I could not avoid a massive pothole..there are many but this one was huge. I took the next exit to see if anything had come loose and I have a ruined wheel cover and a bent rim on front passenger tire. Sunday and no tire shop or truck stop has the 16" rim. I'm at an rv park until the Ford dealer opens in the am. Have called a couple of other places with no luck. Tire is not flat or deflating...yet anyway and thus happened about 4 hours ago. Two tire guys said I sh I uld not try to push on to the next larger town, winslow az. See picture. Should I wait or should I go?
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03-04-2019, 01:19 AM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Deming, NM
Posts: 585
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I'd wait. As it is now, its a blowout waiting to happen,
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03-04-2019, 11:25 AM
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Winnie-Wise
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 267
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Do you have a spare? Put it on now just to be save. Doing it now means you control the location to do the fix. In a snow storm or on a city street is not much fun. It is possible to fix that wheel but it may be cheaper to find a good used one.
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03-05-2019, 12:29 PM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Texas
Posts: 1,665
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Don't travel with it like that. The next bump could brake the bead from the rim and now you have to control a front tire flat safely to the side of the road.
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03-05-2019, 12:48 PM
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Winnie-Wise
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Tucson, AZ
Posts: 267
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What was the outcome? New, used, flat?
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03-10-2019, 04:16 PM
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Winnebago Owner
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Smyrna
Posts: 58
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bent rim
If you are desperate swap out a dually wheel and proceed with caution.
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03-10-2019, 05:07 PM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: May 2009
Location: ohio
Posts: 17
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From a tire guy. Get a big hammer and give it a few good wachs. Get it close and then drive to the nearest tire shop. Does not look that bad
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03-10-2019, 05:28 PM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Full time RV'er
Posts: 1,177
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Exactly why I carry a 4 lb hammer. But after beating it back into shape, I'd find Wifi and look for junk yards near where I was or where I was going. And then come Monday I'd limp to near one and visit trying to find a used 16". I've seen lots of 16", not quite as many as 19", and a few 22.5" at junk yards.
But, OP likely has his issue all straightened out by now. Wonder if he'll come back and let us know how it went?
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03-11-2019, 02:53 PM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 32
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Thanks for all the advice and I did NOT drive further; found a great clean RV Park USA RV and spent an afternoon researching my options. The lady at USA RV gave me 4 places to call. Could not get anything productive done in Gallup, NM on a Sunday but I got lots of ideas...junk yard, bang on it with a hammer, which tire shop might have a 16", etc. I decided against the junk yard unless I was desperate and parked in front of the local Ford dealer at 7:15. Was hoping they would have a 16" but they didn't and would have taken 2 days to get one so with a little pleading they decided they could bang on it with a hammer which I was glad to let them do! It looks great and they even smoothed out the wheel cover too. $87. I drove on to SoCal and am now back a total of about 1300 miles on the reformatted rim and absolutely no problem.
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03-11-2019, 02:55 PM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 32
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No spare is provided with this Class C...I asked when I bought it new. Winnebago doesn't want me changing tires is what I was told. Don't know where I would mount it either!
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03-11-2019, 06:28 PM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Deming, NM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by highfeather
Thanks for all the advice and I did NOT drive further; found a great clean RV Park USA RV and spent an afternoon researching my options. The lady at USA RV gave me 4 places to call. Could not get anything productive done in Gallup, NM on a Sunday but I got lots of ideas...junk yard, bang on it with a hammer, which tire shop might have a 16", etc. I decided against the junk yard unless I was desperate and parked in front of the local Ford dealer at 7:15. Was hoping they would have a 16" but they didn't and would have taken 2 days to get one so with a little pleading they decided they could bang on it with a hammer which I was glad to let them do! It looks great and they even smoothed out the wheel cover too. $87. I drove on to SoCal and am now back a total of about 1300 miles on the reformatted rim and absolutely no problem.
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Well done! I guess I'll have to re-evaluate my attitude that a bent wheel is only fit for the junk pile.
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03-12-2019, 07:27 AM
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Winnebago Camper
Join Date: Jun 2018
Posts: 32
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I would have never thought it could be repaired but after talking to several people and seeing posts on this thread I became a believer (especially when a new one meant a two day layover!). Thanks again everyone for the input!
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03-12-2019, 10:01 PM
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Winnie-Wise
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Surprise, AZ
Posts: 399
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Wow! I'm shocked. I thought the rim would be toast. Good to know.
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03-13-2019, 06:27 AM
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Wheelcrazy
Join Date: Feb 2019
Posts: 21
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I would take it to an alignment shop and get the wheel alignment ( front suspension) checked. The pothole could have knocked it out and if so it could rapidly wear the front tires out.
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03-13-2019, 01:58 PM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: May 2015
Location: Manhattan, Kansas USA
Posts: 1,318
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Generally US shops won't try to straighten a bent rim for liability reasons. Surprised you found one that did and it worked out for you. When I had a bent rim on my Class C a few years ago I found a seller in the DFW Texas metro that sold me one for 1/2 what local shops wanted to charge me. Don't remember the name but Google is you friend to find parts without paying 100 % shop markup.
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03-13-2019, 02:23 PM
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Winnebago Master
Join Date: Mar 2018
Location: Deming, NM
Posts: 585
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynadave
I would take it to an alignment shop and get the wheel alignment ( front suspension) checked. The pothole could have knocked it out and if so it could rapidly wear the front tires out.
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Most definitely do that!!!
And hopefully the shop that fixed the wheel also carefully inspected the tire. It seems unlikely that a hit hard enough to bend the wheel wouldn't have damaged the tire too.
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