Kevin,
I passed your note on to Craig Donnelly, who is one of our wheel technical
specialists, and used to work for BBS. Here's what he had to say:
"It is probably a very old aluminum wheel and may have only been
developed for bias tires. Radial tires create higher lateral loads and
put more stress on the wheels. If you were to run a "R" compound tire
on a wheel noted for bias tires only, it could result in a failure in a
very short time."
What brand/model of wheel is it, and how old do you think it is?
Regards,
William Loring
The Tire Rack
on 4/18/03 4:50 PM, KWall73108@aol.com at KWall73108@aol.com wrote:
> Is it the style of bead flange that could be the reason an aluminum wheel has
> a warning on it saying; "for use with bias tires only"? Anyone care to
> speculate on what could happen if an attempt was made to autox a radial on
> this wheel?
>
> TIA,
> Kevin Wallace
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