15" Jegs wheels praise!!

h8imports

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Ok guys I had a blowout last night on my 08. I waas running down the inerstate and the car started jurking and before I got pulled over the left front tire exploded! So I drove off the side of the road on nothing but rim. I had the Jegs's street star. I was pissed! I got out of the car and looked and I had scratches on the fender where the tire was slapping it and I looked the wheel and it looked fine. So I was pretty happy about that. So when I got it off the car I spun it round and looked at it and you couldn't even tell that I had a blowout on the rim. There is no dents or anything. The wheel looks straight.

I will say this it was a PITA to get the tire off with the 15 on the front. Everything was to low to get the jack under the car. I had jack under the a arm as good as I could and then get a floor jack under the side of the car.
 

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Make sure you check for the wheel being cracked or not. My buddy in his lightning ran a set of jegs for awhile and he hit a pothole one night and we found a hairline crack in the wheel. There very hard to find if its small. Glad your okay though.

BTW, I got a set of 3/4 lugs with open ends, they work great. Thanks for your help bro!:thumb:
 

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gkad you are ok as well and no serius damage were done.what tires were you using if you dont mind me asking.
 

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The tires was General 165R15's. The tire looked new but I thought about it and the tires was in the side of my shed for about 3 years or so. So the tires were probably dry rotted and I didn't know it. :asshat: I'm glad it happened there instead on being on the track. I will have the wheels checked for crackes. Guess I should have before the new tires. I got new tires mounted on them and they were still true. Not warped. So unless they have a crack I didn't see they helt up fine.

Thanks guys. I'm glad we're ok also. The scarest part for me was my 3 year old with me.
 

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