What do you reckon happened to this?

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

That'd do it, I've seen plenty of spoke and lip damage as well as punctured tyre sidewall from it but how the hell do you get the tines verticle enough to punch through the tread of the tyre and then into the rim?

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What about the tines on those trucks that pick up the rubbish skips?


Willem

It looks to me like a suspension failure. Similar damage has previously been reported here relating to D3s.
Nick

I thought that at first but looks like from wrong angle.

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Originally Posted by Blknight.aus

but how the hell do you get the tines verticle enough to punch through the tread of the tyre and then into the rim?

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Drive the spike into the rear of the tyre!

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Originally Posted by trebor

It looks to me like a suspension failure. Similar damage has previously been reported here relating to D3s.
Nick

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Simple suspension failure doesn't result in holes in the wheel like this. Besides the damage is all wrong. The rear tie rod was ripped out of the chassis bracket, not broken off at the hub.


Willem

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Originally Posted by Graeme

Drive the spike into the rear of the tyre!

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yeah but then the hole would be across the rim not along it...

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Originally Posted by willem

Simple suspension failure doesn't result in holes in the wheel like this. Besides the damage is all wrong. The rear tie rod was ripped out of the chassis bracket, not broken off at the hub.


Willem

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no but abusive driving could cause the tyre to fail first and then the suspens ion damage to occur OR the loss of control at a critical moment from the suspension failure could result in the wheel being placed in a poor way.

Ockham's razor

among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected

vehicle was driven over an obstacle resulting in a damaged tyre, rim and suspension components.

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Originally Posted by slug_burner

Ockham's razor

among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected

vehicle was driven over an obstacle resulting in a damaged tyre, rim and suspension components.

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Clearly you have never had to deal with murphy and muppets at the same time.