Cause Of Cracked Wheel

[Ragtop Girl]

I posted earlier about the cracked wheel. I finally got home after almost losing my mind with the dinging every two minutes. The local dealer looked at the wheel today and says is it not a warranty issue. They claim the wheel was damaged when I had tires put on almost five months ago. This doesn't make sense to me - if the wheel was damaged by the tire installer, wouldn't it have shown up before now? The tire itself is just fine. A body shop friend said he had never seen a cracked wheel without a damaged tire and felt it would be a warranty issue.

Has anyone else had any problems with this or have any ideas? I don't know whether to try to push higher up with Lexus or just buy the new wheel and move on.

Thank you.

[gordonw]

Not necessarily. The crack may have started out small , and unnoticeable, but then grew over time. Were they putting on run flat tires?