"A pot-hole in the street just bent yo rims...so what you gonna do ??? ACT A FOOL !" - Ludacris

I just recently moved up to Detroit from Miami ( I know...DUMB move). The roads up here are the worst i have ever seen...cracks, uneven pavement, and pot-holes EVERYWHERE. I drive a 1997 Honda Civic EX that is riding on 17" rims. One of those rims happened to catch an unaviodable pot-hole. My rims have a 3" polished dish. A good 4" of the lip is bent. Picture melting something in the microwave...how the edges curl around.....well thats what the section of my rim looks like

So has this ever happened to anyone here ?? WHAT DO I DO ???

 

dont even bother trying to fix I would just save up and get a new rim

 

I hurd about a shop back in Miami that fixes rims, but would that be something that can be fixed ? Are there even shops that fix rims ???

 

im pretty sure there is but its probaly going to cost you more to fix one then to buy one

 

man sameeeething happened to me awhile back....i was pretty up set i had just bought the rims only 3 days after it happened (18in used rims). But anyways i got tired of looking @ them like that so i grabbed a thick wooden mallet and a rubber mallet... put the wooden mallet to the rim and smacked it with the rubber mallet like 20 times... and wouldnt u guess the dent came out...could hardly tell the rim was bent... just grab alittle wax to take the smudges out and it almost loooks as good as new...

 

did u have to rebalance the wheel?

 

i know i should have but didnt... i dont feel any shaking or jumping in the steering wheel ... they had just done some street construction and left one of those big metal slabs to cover the hole up ... they forget to put some asphalt to level it with the street ... now here i come with low profiles (225,40,18) and hit it @ 60mph luckily i didnt pop them

 

I don't know about other states, but in california it IS illegal for a shop to rebend your wheel back to OE spec after a certain point, because of the liability it can cause.