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Message: [QUOTE="Charles, post: 380545, member: 103"] Something like this: [ATTACH=full]90431[/ATTACH] Shouldn't surprise anyone when it fractures in a few places after a 4800+lb front end beats and bounces on it for thousands of miles. It might be a good rule of thumb that if you can readily identify a person holding the wheel directly in front of their face by looking straight through the wheel, then it probably shouldn't go on a diesel pickup. That is basically a 6 spoke wheel, where those six spokes are then cut into two even smaller spokes, side-by-side. 12, evenly spaced and for God's sake, angled spokes would be much stronger. The loads are like what a 6 spoke would encounter, but the spokes are very small. Secondly, the spokes have almost no apparent angle. They look to be nearly in plane with the hub face. That means that lateral loading will not put those spokes into tension and compression, but will just sit there shearing them back and forth until they probably crack somewhere between the hub and bead. Ever notice how a bicycle spoke is angled all the way to the outside of the hub, alternating spokes from one side of the hub to the other? If you just ran them all in plane, the wheel would be a nightmare with no lateral load capacity. Those people basically made a spoke wheel because it looked cool to them, and then didn't treat it like a spoked wheel. There's not enough meat there to treat it like a solid center, and not enough angle to treat it like a spoke wheel. The fact that some of them cracked shouldn't surprise anyone. I've noticed wheels like that getting more and more popular. It's like people forgot that the wheel actually has to support the weight of the truck every time it hits a bump, bumps a curb or hits a pothole.... As long as you actually wash your wheels every now and then and get your face down there you should see any fatigue cracks long before a catastrophic failure. So if you have wheels with more air than metal between the hub and bead, make sure to put in some quality face time with clean wheels every time you wash the truck, or change the oil. I don't care who or where they are made, nor from what.... a design like that is just asking for trouble on a heavy diesel truck that sees daily service. [/QUOTE]