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Message: <blockquote data-quote="E46Fanatic" data-source="post: 401259" data-attributes="member: 81">Well, another way to look at it, is that the wheel certainly absorbed the kinetic energy which otherwise would have been transferred to other parts of the car/suspension area.  Not that it mattered in this case tho...Then again, you are right.  The 225m wheels have a history of .... cracking under normal driving as well!!  But the cracking has always been near the barrel area not at the edge of the face of the wheel as in this case.<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/10/bmw_alloy_wheels.html" target="_blank">http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/10/bmw_alloy_wheels.html</a></blockquote>