homemechanic Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Anyone experience chrom wheel-rim leaks air? Any cheap options to fix this problem besides rechrom or new ones? Someone tried to put more beads on it for me, but not working. why does Lexus not doing a recall on these chrom wheels when so many owners are having problems? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mxvr4 Posted April 24, 2008 Share Posted April 24, 2008 Anyone experience chrom wheel-rim leaks air? Any cheap options to fix this problem besides rechrom or new ones? Someone tried to put more beads on it for me, but not working.why does Lexus not doing a recall on these chrom wheels when so many owners are having problems? This is a late reply to this post. I have been experiencing the "leaky tires on chrome wheels" problem for years now (96 ES 300 with factory chrome wheels). Generally, it's been about 1 tire/wheel each year that needs work done to stop the leak (where the rubber meets the wheel). Discount Tire is where I purchased my second set of Michelins for the car. I take the leaky tire to them, they dismount the tire, grind down the chrome rim with a grinder/wire brush (may also smooth out the rubber edge of the tire, then remount the tire on the chrome wheel with new bead/sealer. They have always done this without a charge for me, even though, like I said, I consistently bring them about 1 leaky tire/wheel each and every year for the last several years. It is just a temporary fix, as all the fixed tires/wheels will develop this same leak again, over time. A tech at Discount Tire did say that alloy wheels do not have this problem, or significantly less frequency of this problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
homemechanic Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 Some shops will do this bead/sealer method to temporary fix the problem. In actuality, the chrome peeled/teared off the wheel at where the tire lips meet and that created a void to allow air to leak out. The wire brush-bead sealer method simply brush down the void area to allow the sealer to stick to the wheel and fills the void. Sometimes this trick is good, but sometimes it doesn't help. Mechanics recommend re-chrome the wheel or use alloy wheels. However, I find re-chroming is very expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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