Broken Wheel, Anyone had this problem (Pics)
 

I was on my way home the other day. Took the corner and my car started to shake and then started to drift. I did a 180 and hit the curb broadside. Right front wheel broke with the center still attached to the car. Anyone experience anything like this or have any info on this?

Than sux, glad you're okay. Thats what happens when metal hits concrete, concrete wins. i've seen several rims break like that after impact with a curb, rock, ditch.......

Missing a lot of info. I'm assuming it wasn't raining and the street was free of dust, debris, sand, dirt etc. Assuming so, how fast were you taking the turn, did you downshift upshift, was there any loss of power or sudden acceleration and of course was your VDC on or off.

Wow!

Yeah that impact looks like it happened with some force, the wheel came off and the nissan emblem with 1/4 of the spokes and the lugs are in tact. WOW

I wouldn't fault the wheel for getting destroyed due to an impact so I don't see how this would have been a Problem.

I'm sorry to see what happened :( but I'm glad you're ok

holy crap... I've never seen a wheel snap like that

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Holy crap!!! The rear suspension and rim is F@#k'd up too ... dude, hope you're all right.

Wheels will break like that if you hit the lip area of the rim with enough force.

Wow that had to be a big *** curb and a Hard hit. Completely sheared lower perch arm. :icon14: wow

Glad you're okay, but your biggest problem is not the wheel judging from the pictures.

Damn... rear lower arm busted, side airbags deployed... How's your neck?

Physics were against you in this instance, nothing more. I can't imagine your damage would be a reflection of poor quality parts.

What really happened ? :eekdance:

Mine snapped off along with the Spindle, wheel hub, caliper and wheel of course. But yours did the opposite.

I've seen it happen on track mid-corner where the wheel fails due to fatigue, now that would be scary. Driver rolled multiple times and landed on the other side of the safety barrier.

In your case I think you got lucky the wheel failed so that it didn't rip the rest of the suspension off the car.

Yes, generally you want the wheel to be the fuse and save the rest of the car, it's what circle track guys do and I've seen a lot of cast wheels break that way at the rock crawling comps, usually due to rollovers etc.

Wow -- that sucks! Hope you're okay!

Did you lose control while driving too fast and then break the wheel or did a wheel start to fail (which is unusual, but not impossible) and cause you to lose control?

That you said "the car started to shake then drift" makes it sound like the wheel (or some other suspension related component) was failing, causing you to lose control, and then the crash just did it in completely. What happened?

so XXR and DRAG makes those 18's? :icon17: ;)

glad you weren't hurt, op. :)

Wow!

There must be more to this..

I'm guessing it wasn't the wheel at all but a suspension component that failed and caused the impending slide into the curb which of course totally detonated that wheel!

Of course wheel fatigue could play a roll but these are forged Rays are they not? Not saying it couldn't happen but unless a bunch of other hard driving/careless factors are at play here, I wouldn't guess that to be the case.

I mean I'm riding on gravity cast wheels and after 22k miles and 4 track days, they're holding up quite well (testament to Axis btw). It pays to get under the car and check things out from time to time. ;)

I believe that the Base 18" wheels are cast and made by Enkei

+1 on the OP hitting something, it happens

Rotas are notorious for breaking under hard driving. This is the first I've seen of the OEM wheels breaking. OP might be on to something; but judging from the pics, it appears he "drifted" (understeered) into a curb at just the right angle with enough speed to cause the wheel to break.


http://media.ziptied.com/members/fil...roken_rota.jpg

Try Rotas, since a share of them break like that.

Doesn't exactly inspire confidence in Rota's now does it?!

wow thats crazy, i have a set of stock 18s as well. glad ur safe!

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How fast you did you take that turn? Glad your OK

it hurts to see so much damage. my stomach hurts.

glad the Z took the blow and not you! how are the repairs going?

Crazy incident

Just gonna put this here . . .

http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/s...7ee540bc20.jpg

These wheels shouldn't break at all from normal driving or cornering, if they break under normal driving conditions, then their is a design defect. Nissan should do a recall on them.

I can understand a wheel breaking due to a pot hole, hitting a curb, or after an accident, but not from normal day to day driving conditions.

While these new lite weight design mags look great, you can really see how flimsy they are, compared to a solid slotted mag as used in the past.

Another area that probably causes a lot of stress on the wheel is the tiny side wall, of todays wheel designs. When you had higher side walls the tires probably obsorbed a lot of the stress.

Wow
 

Shyt sorry to see this.

I don't buy the whole wheel failure theory. If it fails and shears off like that, its going to break off instantly, no shaking as if its about to fail. My guess is we're missing a huge chunk of the story here. It looks like this:

WOW man !
the way too fast going into a corner ?!
Hope you're fine !

Soo the process is moving along should have it back in 3 days or so. And for everyone who wants to know more info, here it is. I was at a 4 way light at night, no one around. So I took the corner and whipped out the back of the car, then throw it in second, car straightened out now im going about 30mph and then car started to shake lose control did a 180 and hit the curb exactly like that corvette in the video up above. And yes my VDC was off.

The OEM chrome wheels from the 350z were known to crack to the point where there was a NTSB inquiry into it. This would be the first I've heard from the cast 18s on the 370, though.

the plot thickens. sounds like you were being a hoon.

Classic! Glad you are ok.

damn... looks just like my Z. thats a nightmare. glad noone was hurt.

Google Rota wheels and you will see all sorts of them ;)

Wasnt there an issue with the stock lug nuts or something on the 09-10 models? Sounds to me like the lugs were failing and when you whipped the car you loosened the lugs enough where the shaking began and then the wheel basically was hanging by a couple threads....

VERY glad you are all good man!