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cracked scania wheel rim

Postby xamtex » Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:06 am

was out in a 15 plate scania tonight and had a slow puncture on the o/s front so called out the tyre guy.he took the wheel off and got his soap spray out and the rim was cracked where the centre fits to the rim. he said its not uncommon on these and hes seen it on 68 and 69 plate scania too.....should we be worried???
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Colin_scottish » Sat Feb 15, 2020 7:47 am

Not at all I've had that with a volvo and mercedes.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby TruckerJoe » Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:05 am

Had 2 on my Merc in just over 2 years. Been told its common on the Merc also
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby biggriffin » Sat Feb 15, 2020 9:21 am

Crap recycled steel, and manufacturers trying to save weight by making wheels thinner.

Pick-up a wheel from an 80's F10 then pickup a wheel from Fh4..

Also recycled steel corrodes faster than 1st quality steel,
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby eurotrans » Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:56 am

Pretty sure scania and Volvo and all manufacturers use buy in wheel rims and tyres from other companies so any of them could get a bad batch :| also like big griffin says there's more and more recycled steel being used :roll:
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Franglais » Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:43 am

The proportion of recycled material in steel doesn`t affect it`s quality.
Steel made to differing specs, with different prices, will be of different quality, but the amount of recycled content isn`t really relevant.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby mdourish » Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:46 am

A lot of the problems is heating then cooling overtime it weakens them

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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby biggriffin » Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:18 pm

eurotrans wrote:Pretty sure scania and Volvo and all manufacturers use buy in wheel rims and tyres from other companies so any of them could get a bad batch :| also like big griffin says there's more and more recycled steel being used :roll:



I'm sure from when doing metal work, engineering, we was told, the more steel that is used as it's heated and melted down, it losses carbon content, and other changes within it's structural make-up. Making it weaker.. There's different processes for different qualities...
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Franglais » Sat Feb 15, 2020 12:30 pm

biggriffin wrote:
eurotrans wrote:Pretty sure scania and Volvo and all manufacturers use buy in wheel rims and tyres from other companies so any of them could get a bad batch :| also like big griffin says there's more and more recycled steel being used :roll:



I'm sure from when doing metal work, engineering, we was told, the more steel that is used as it's heated and melted down, it losses carbon content, and other changes within it's structural make-up. Making it weaker.. There's different processes for different qualities...


But when steel is recycled it is melted down, the carbon and other ingredients can be adjusted. Generally the steels available today are better quality than previously, both because of a better understanding of materials science, and also from better control of the processes.
If sub-standard materials are being used, it is a failure of the truck maker or supplier in their quality control methods, of someone speccing a cheaper material to save cost, or someone speccing a lighter material to save weight.
I do agree that there is plenty of scope for failure, but I don`t agree that it`s down to the use of recycled content in the steel. It may be poor quality steel, but that isn`t down to recycling content.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby fuse » Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:20 pm

Molecular structure of the metal has broken down..... :roll:
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Franglais » Sat Feb 15, 2020 1:40 pm

http://www.eurofer.org/Sustainable%20St ... ling.fhtml
"Steel is 100 per cent recyclable. It can be reused over and over again without any loss of quality. Scrap is therefore a valuable raw material for steel production."
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Buckstones » Sat Feb 15, 2020 2:02 pm

Franglais wrote:http://www.eurofer.org/Sustainable%20Steel/Steel%20Recycling.fhtml
"Steel is 100 per cent recyclable. It can be reused over and over again without any loss of quality. Scrap is therefore a valuable raw material for steel production."


Scrap was always part of the charge loaded into steel furnaces, years ago I spent time in Sheffield steelworks laboratories testing samples from open-hearth and electric furnaces, quality was checked with care,whatever the feed to the furnace consisted of.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby WhiteTruckMan » Sat Feb 15, 2020 7:49 pm

Might just be down to the usage of the individual vehicle.

Are the roads of today more rougher and potholed than those of yesteryear, or is that the rose tinted glasses viewpoint?

And has anyone noticed this with trailer wheels?
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby largebloke1969 » Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:47 pm

I had both my front rims cracked within weeks of each other on a daf 105 xf a while back
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby El Deano » Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:33 pm

Had the exact same thing on a Daf XF 65 plate on Friday.

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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby peterm » Sun Feb 16, 2020 2:29 am

Just chain the dodgy one up and crack on. She'll steer OK with one wheel.
I'll fix that later.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby corij » Sun Feb 16, 2020 7:38 am

chances are its chinese steel once again. my bro who works in engineering near Paris was telling me the chinks go to great lengths now to hide the origins of their finished steel, such is the bad name it now has.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Franglais » Sun Feb 16, 2020 8:40 am

Whoops!
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby biggriffin » Sun Feb 16, 2020 9:39 am

peterm wrote:Just chain the dodgy one up and crack on. She'll steer OK with one wheel.


Would the snowflake/plobbers, and Trucking Legends know how to do that, I don't remember that syllabus whilst doing my CPC
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Franglais » Sun Feb 16, 2020 10:01 am

peterm wrote:Just chain the dodgy one up and crack on. She'll steer OK with one wheel.

Worked for the Scammell Scarab well enough! :D
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby peterm » Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:05 am

Franglais wrote:
peterm wrote:Just chain the dodgy one up and crack on. She'll steer OK with one wheel.

Worked for the Scammell Scarab well enough! :D

:lol:
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Dodgy Permit » Mon Feb 17, 2020 8:13 am

I wonder if its driving over the pot holed mess our roads/motorways are now is causing things to crack and fall apart. :shock:
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby Old John » Mon Feb 17, 2020 12:24 pm

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Think I might have posted this before. N/S front wheel off my FM unit a few years ago. It gave up com I g off a roundabout.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby peterm » Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:05 am

Old John wrote:
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Think I might have posted this before. N/S front wheel off my FM unit a few years ago. It gave up com I g off a roundabout.

Blimey that could have been really nasty.
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby fuse » Wed Feb 19, 2020 9:58 pm

I am shocked
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Re: cracked scania wheel rim

Postby cav551 » Wed Feb 19, 2020 10:33 pm

Old John wrote:
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Think I might have posted this before. N/S front wheel off my FM unit a few years ago. It gave up com I g off a roundabout.



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