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Originally Posted by Alext
What's interesting would be the result of hitting the wheel multiple times on minor potholes. Has anyone done any testing of a BMW 19inch wheel with RFT like this to determine if such repeated stress will crack it at a single point??
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Yes, I do test this almost daily, driving a road of 8 Km made of concrete slabs. The length of one slap is around 6 meters. The problem is that the change from one to the next slab is not quiet 'aligned'. Some of the slap changes are 3 - 4 cm’s higher, these ones are the bad ones who could damage the car because the edges are really sharp. There are also many that are more than 4 cm’s lower. But 'jumping' of one slap to the next one should be no problem beside the bad comfort.
I’m aware that this road can damage my cars. So I do keep the speed below the 60Km/hours and try to avoid the bad ones. But it is the long term effect were I’m afraid of. At the moment, my E89 has no problems after driven ~900 Km in 6 months on this prehistoric Belgium road.