Buckled wheel

[phildamb]

Hi.

I bought a car this week after trading my old bora in. A 2005 Touran. It needed new tyres on the back so had a mobile tyre fitter come out. He said the read left wheel was badly buckled but it had balanced ok. So question is will this be an mot failure and if so where can I get a replacement wheel from they seem fairly elusive to find.

Looking at the service logs it was with VW the month before I bought it and they rotated the wheels at the customers request.

[zollaf]

its not part of the mot unless its obviously properly bent or cracked. its also not something you will always spot unless the tyre is spun up on a balancer. how is it buckled then, is it on the rim or is it a flat spot on the dish ?

[phildamb]

its not part of the mot unless its obviously properly bent or cracked. its also not something you will always spot unless the tyre is spun up on a balancer. how is it buckled then, is it on the rim or is it a flat spot on the dish ?

I couldn't really say I wasn't there when the guy had the tyre off his words where "it's really badly buckled but it balanced fine". Looking from the outside I can't see any obvious signs of denting. It was formerly the front wheel and I know the previous owner had various joints replaced on the front.

[zollaf]

its probably just got a flat spot on the inside from hitting a pothole. i would hope that if it was too bad then this tyre fitter would have advised not using it. maybe best to get a replacement though. is it a factory wheel or aftermarket ?

[phildamb]

its probably just got a flat spot on the inside from hitting a pothole. i would hope that if it was too bad then this tyre fitter would have advised not using it. maybe best to get a replacement though. is it a factory wheel or aftermarket ?

As far as I can tell they are the factory fit ones. 16"

[Rob69]

You don't say if it is alloy or steel, I originally had steel 16" on my 2004 touran, I ended up using these as winter rims and got a set of tidy golf alloys off gumtree for just over 100 notes to use as a summer set. Anyway during one winter I hit a section of broken road surface, shredded a tyre sidewall and severely bent and cracked a steel rim. The crack wasn't immediately obvious but noticeable once the tyre bead was broken off the rim. I'd be even more cautious of using a badly buckled alloy as small alloy cracks may be almost impossible to see without using dye penetrant crack detection, but the wheel could fail suddenly.
You could check how badly buckled and how much run out there is by jacking up and setting up a fixed point close to the wheel rim and turning it ( car on stands of course!) The tyre fitters 'badly buckled' might only be a few mm run out.
Have a look on ebay, breakers sites or gumtree for replacement rims but check carefully for damage!
Standard 16" Touran rims I had were ET50mm ( offset) J6.5 (width inches) 112mmPCD from memory, taking a 205/55/16 tyre, same as some mk5 golfs.