Actually, that's a pretty common way to bend a rim.
The tire can be OK (or not visibly damaged)
but the inner rim will have taken a hard hit and deformed.
I have a particularly soft set of OZ's that I taco'ed (technical term)
by hitting a road hump-
the outer rim is still round,
but the inner rim was a pretzel.
A whole lotta wacks with a 5lb dead- blow hammer
and it's roundish again.
But I won't put it on the race car!
Toby
> It turns out there is no visible crack, just a single inbd-to-outbd mark
> on the rim in the indicated area. The mark looks like it would polish
> out it is so minor. They marked a 3+ inch (radial) area on the rim as
> leaking, and the mark seen inside is ~ 3/8" long, near the rim center
> (inbd/outbd), somewhat in the middle of the 3" marked area.
> I did notice that the inner bead surface is kinda bent outward, not
> impact-dinged, just at a flared out angle compared to the rest of the
> rim.
> I suspect that what I am dealing with is tire store bone-heads, and the
> tire/rim interface on the backside is where the leak is / was occuring.
> I have compiled pics but not available till tomorrow.
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