What to do with broken rims?

[jarrettmcb]

Long story short I ran over a baseball sized rock that was either hit that or a car on either side of me on the freeway. Hitting the rock at almost freeway speeds cracked my rim pretty bad and ruined it. Is there anything that I can do with the wheel? scrap yard, etc? I don't want it to take up room in my already small garage

 

[vivix]

scrapyard. look up local ones and ask. Google is saying aluminum wheels are worth .40-.45 a pound

 

[PunkST]

Make an end table out of it.

 

[James1980]

Make an end table out of it.

Great idea, or if you're like me and you have no talent in that department, hang it on the wall in the garage

 

[Dpro]

scrapyard. look up local ones and ask. Google is saying aluminum wheels are worth .40-.45 a pound

If you can find a place to take it and give you money. Its pretty much leave it for the junk collectors at this point.

 

[flbchbm]

have it cut in half, paint it some color, add a clock in the center, hang and display (the spoke side of it)

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Make it into a hose reel for outside and you will remember it whenever you wash your car outside when its nice!

 

[jarrettmcb]

Thanks for the recommendations everyone, I'll probably just scrap it.
I do have 3 other Black OEM rims that are pretty clean besides one with some curb rash if anyone would be interested in them. Might make a listing for it later down the road.

 

[Dpro]

lol I got one spare OE black wheel with a little bit of rash.

 

[Intuit]

Long story short I ran over a baseball sized rock that was either hit that or a car on either side of me on the freeway. Hitting the rock at almost freeway speeds cracked my rim pretty bad and ruined it. Is there anything that I can do with the wheel? scrap yard, etc? I don't want it to take up room in my already small garage

I was planning to patronize a local wheel repair business after the switchover to the Winter set...
https://www.wheeldoctorohio.com/

Similar story to yours. Just as I changed lanes there was a large-size "pea" gravel (rock gravel actually) from the hardware store around the corner sitting in the roadway. @D1JL, very rare for me, the "F" word was used, and no it wasn't fear. Joking... IIRC I think it was the "D" word. 😜


No air leaks and initially no vibration until the tire starts to heat up once traveling >75MPH highway for awhile.

Seeing @jarrettmcb and @Dpro comments, may just post a WTB thread later. I fetched my current Winter set of wheels driving up to Michigan from SW Ohio.