Cracked Wheel
 

No other signs of damage, just a crack that seems to have come out of nowhere.

Does anyone have a souce for a rear 19" #132?


If I try to find one online, how do I make sure I am getting an OEM?

http://www.finishlinewheels.com/BMW/X5/2006/

Any idea why Finishline would be selling replicas for more than OEMS?

Answering all my own questions as my research progresses...

But if anyone would like to chime in - corrections or other opinions are welcome.

Finishline sells reconditioned OEM wheels.

That is how a OEM can cost less than a replica.

As for quality, I have no way to judge until I can get my hands on one.

I am hoping to get a wheel that had curb rash that has been repaired, and not one that like mine has been cracked and repaired. As far as I can tell, it will be a craps shoot.

If it is OEM it would have the BMW part# on one of the inner spokes, in format x xxx xxx, (6 769 875 - front axle only) or (6 769 876 - rear axle only)

Thanks

I've been thinking about what could have caused this crack.

And my memory takes me back three weeks ago when I was driving down the highway and I heard what I thought was the sound of a shotgun going off in the right rear of the car.

It was so loud that I actually flinched.

I could not imagine what the sound could have been, but I pulled over to look - and saw nothing.

I knew I didn't run over anything and after a while forgot about it.

Now I think I know what that horrendous noise was.

wow where is this crack? did you talk to the dealer? if its a defective wheel they should replace it free of charge.

Hey blktop, sorry to hear about your crack in the rear :wow: :wow: :wow:

I recently bought a set of oem 132's and took some internal pics of each spoke just after I cleaned them, thinking that it may come in handy one day. My numbers & stampings don't stack up with what weasel stated and that maybe a euro delivery thing given that I'm in Oz. But apart from what weasel has quoted and from what I've read here all bmw oem rims will have a BMW stamp and not a BWM as some reps will have. Fore warned is fore armed, make sure you don't get shafted.

Hope these pics help in identifying an oem rim.

Interested to see a pic of the rim crack and final outcome of this unfortunate event. Good luck :thumbup:

Are there really wheels for front verses rear? Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question....

i would say yes, at least for staggered setup...

And the first 7 numbers in the first pic X Foomph posted are the BMW part#s. The numbers I posted are supposed to be of the style 132's, but there are more than one set of numbers available (superceded part #s)

Defective wheel? Come on now, aluminum wheels crack. Fact of life. Steel wheels bend. If you like shiny lower unsprung weight aluminum wheels, then it's part of the game. If you find this unacceptable, switch to some steelies - you will be hard pressed to crack them.

If you bank an aluminum wheel into a curb or some other solid object, there is a chance you will crack the wheel. I cracked two OEM corvette wheels curbing them when I was not used to the lack of sidewall and width of 275/35R18s on my firebird. Ooops.

Aluminum cracks and bends. You think they'd be able to make ones that don't bend anymore.

The dealer is going to look at it. If it is determined to be defective, they will probably replace it - but who can say. If not, then I gotta find one to buy.

Thanks for the pics... If I get a chance I will photo and post.

I had a crack on my HRE547 once, I had a shop weld it!

its possible to have a defective wheel..

I would love to hear what constitutes a 'defective wheel.' Hopefully he will post up what the dealer says.

Curious...

A defective wheel - like anything other defective product - would be anything that is not manufactured within critical parameters.

Or a product for which the engineering specifications do not meet the real world requirements.

There is no such thing as a product line made with 100% non-defect record.

Why do you believe there can be no defects?

I would like to hear the answer to that as well.

I do not believe there can be no "defects," any machining process can produce out of tolerance units. What I do think is that it is much more likely that a wheel will be subjected to abuse and fatigue over time, and failures are much more likely to result from driving over objects, getting curbed, not running the proper pressure, etc than from out of tolerance machining or a metallurgically inferior slug of aluminum alloy. Because of that, I think you will be hard pressed to get a dealer to accept financial responsibility for a cracked wheel. Hence I wanted to see what the dealer said. To me this comes down to probability. Defective wheel is possible, but not probable.

That's fair enough, but since I am the only driver of the car; and can tell you for certain it has never been abused or hit anything in the road, and since it seems to have cracked while running down a clean road; and since it is a hot weather car running for the first time in cold weather, I gotta think it is a defect in the wheel.

Getting the dealer to see it my way is another story.

If they say it's due to physical damage as in running over something, then simply ask them to show you the tell tale signs of impact. It should show either a slight bend in the rim at the crack, egg or other damage at that point in the tire's sidewall... or at the very least a black smudge of rubber on the outer edge of the rim's bead/lip at the crack from the impact.

Thanks for the advice!!! I am still waiting for them to get the new wheels in so I can drive down to swap it in.

This is my wheel...
 

Took the X in today to have the new wheel mounted and to leave the old one for evaluation...

...this is my wheel on crack...
 

As you can see from the pictures, the wheel is still perfectly round, it's lip is not bent flat, nor does it show any other signs of bends or impacts...

...get the picture?
 

...if you look closely, you can see that the crack is not just in the rim, it continues avross the interior of the wheel as micro crack. Personally I cant see how this could be conscrued as an abused wheel.

Verdict is in, BMW says the wheel is bent and shows signs of impact. I don't see it myself.

When I get the wheel back, I will have to have it mounted on a machine and spun so I can see it myself. There goes 7 big ones.

I will consider a claim against the state (although I [edit: heard not felt] the wheel crack, I don't remember feeling any impact. I will say that the road at the locaton has been recently patched) or failing that my ins.

You could get that fix for around $130 look for a wheel repair shop.

Thanks,

I know. But that is the same reason I did not purchase a repaired wheel. I don't trust them.

Check ebay for a wheel I guess probably best price.