Can anyone help me please.

I have a 2010 Fiesta Titanium which I have owner for a year a 4 months. In the last 2 months I have had 2 wheels buckle. Does any one have any ideas on how I can stop this happening? I have read that the alloys are not that strong and also low profile tyres do not help. The wheels are 16inch.

Can I have wider tyres put on the wheels so there is a bit more space between the road and the wheel or would changing the 4 wheels for something a bit harder be better? Ford do not do a 16inch steel wheel.

I can't keep affording to change the wheels at £180 a go every few months.

Thanks

Vikki

For the price of two wheels from ford you could get four new alloys and use your own tyres just an example below. I had the same problem on my titanium 2009 I had 3 buckled wheels. Just got a new set of non ford alloys.

http://www.wheelbasealloys.com/alloy-wheels/inovit/force-4/black-polished/16-inch

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If the problem is due to pot holes you can try claiming the cost back from the council. Just take a pic or two of the hole. I successfully claimed back £100 when I needed a new wishbone

No offense but try to drive slowly. :P

Thanks for the replies. I will have a look at the non ford alloys.

It was a pot hole I hit a few days ago. The whole part of the road is damaged and I was only going at the most 10mph. I didn't think it would dent the wheel but it did! I'm going to contact the council and see if I can put a claim in for it and any other damage to the suspension it may have caused.

No offense but try to drive slowly. :P

I was driving at 30 down a badly lit road and hit a pothole, first i knew about it was the bang i heard. If a pothole is full of water its very difficult to spot if its dark, unless you drive at 10 mph with full beam on and your nose pressed against the windscreen. :)

Can anyone help me please.

I have a 2010 Fiesta Titanium which I have owner for a year a 4 months. In the last 2 months I have had 2 wheels buckle. Does any one have any ideas on how I can stop this happening? I have read that the alloys are not that strong and also low profile tyres do not help. The wheels are 16inch.

Can I have wider tyres put on the wheels so there is a bit more space between the road and the wheel or would changing the 4 wheels for something a bit harder be better? Ford do not do a 16inch steel wheel.

I can't keep affording to change the wheels at £180 a go every few months.

Thanks

Vikki

Good sugestion on non ford wheels, will work out cheaper. To be safer look for 15" wheels and get bigger profile tyres, like 60 or 65 rather than 50 or 55. Its not the width but the profile height of the tyre, but you know that. :) . I'm not sure what size tyres fored put on the 15" wheels but any decent wheel place will make sure you get the size you need or use a tyre calculater like this.

http://www.tyresave.co.uk/tyresize.html

Looking on the Ford website it looks like you would need to get 14" wheels to be able to get 65 profile tyres, you might not want to go that small. Looks like 16" come in both 45 and 50 profile, so see what you have now. If you have 45 profile getting 15 " wheels and 50 profile would be better for you.

5.5 x 14", offset 37.5, for tyres 175/65 R14

6 x 15", offset 47.5, for tyres 195/50 R15

6.5 x 16", offset 47,5 for tyres 195/50 R16 and 195/45 R16

Thanks for your advice everyone.

When I spoke to Ford about changing the wheel they said I would need to get the same size as the speedo reading would be wrong. I have 45's on there at the moment.

Thanks for your advice everyone.

When I spoke to Ford about changing the wheel they said I would need to get the same size as the speedo reading would be wrong. I have 45's on there at the moment.

You need to get the same size overall. So:

You currently have 195/45 R16

Using the calculater above you can get

15" wheels with 195/50/15 - 1.03 % or difference of 6mm or

14" wheels with 175/65/14 - 0.7 % or difference of 1 mm.

Most will say you can change to + or - 2.5 %, both changes above are well with that.

Hi look on E bay for a set of ford Titanium wheels from 2011 June time as they will not buckle Ford changed them and they will take some stick. the side wall of my off side front tyre was damaged after hitting a big pot hole but the wheel was fine.

Go on to the Auto Express website as there was an article about buckling alloys on the fiesta about 12+ months ago.

Since driving the Fiesta I have become more selective and do avoid some local roads due to shocking pot holes and make a small detour. The old BMW had 17"/50 profile so going to a 17"/40 profile has altered my driving pattern and increased my awareness. Just have to try and be more vigilant but it's not easy to spot every pot hole .

I can't believe there's never been any investigation in to why only 9% of road tax is used on the roads ?, Someone needs to start a online petition as if u get 100,000 signatures and it's got be addressed in parliament.

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Because it's not road tax, it's vehicle excise duty ;)