# Ford rims that just cracked **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Created:** [July 27, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ford-rims-that-just-cracked/66623 "2011-07-27T17:34:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![eileen255](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a698b9/32.png) [@eileen255](https://community.cartalk.com/u/eileen255)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 5:34pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ford-rims-that-just-cracked/66623/1 "2011-07-27T17:34:41Z")
My husband has a diesel 2005 F350 Harley-Davidson edition pickup. He has had to replace all the rims with a dealer- suggested less expensive type after replacing one of them to the tune of $1,400.00, and then another one cracked. Ford could not explain why the factory rims just seemed to disentegrate. There was no accident, no pothole, no impact of any kind. Any thoughts? ---
**Author:** ![the\_same\_mountainbike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@the\_same\_mountainbike](https://community.cartalk.com/u/the_same_mountainbike)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ford-rims-that-just-cracked/66623/2 "2011-07-28T17:06:10Z")
Ford must have gotten some wheels from a bad casting batch. ---
**Author:** ![texases](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/texases/32/862_2.png) [@texases](https://community.cartalk.com/u/texases)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 5:13pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ford-rims-that-just-cracked/66623/3 "2011-07-28T17:13:10Z")
Where, exactly, did they crack? ---
**Author:** ![Whitey](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/cartalk/user_avatar/community.cartalk.com/whitey/32/24680_2.png) [@Whitey](https://community.cartalk.com/u/Whitey)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 5:47pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/ford-rims-that-just-cracked/66623/4 "2011-07-28T17:47:45Z")
As a commercial truck driver, I was trained to look for cracks in wheel rims, but what I usually see are cracks in the paint on a wheel rim, and rust coming through the crack. Could it be that the rims are really just bent?