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    Hub cracking failure of Sunraysia "Style or type" of rims

    I work for a construction company and saw an 'incident notification' that had been sent out a couple of weeks ago to site personnel about a failure of Sunraysia rims - speedy type - where the rim had broken away from the hub.
    They are subsequently removing them from all vehicles/testing rims and thought everyone should know to be aware of it and check for any signs of failure/pass on to friends who have these wheels.

    Details of Notification (25/10/2008)
    - Supervisor was towing a lighting plant trailer when he noticed a change in the handling of the vehicle.
    - On investigation it was found that the wheel had cracked and separated from the rim hub.
    - This was a new vehicle and had only been on-site for a period of 6 weeks
    -There are 4 known types of Sunraysia rims – Speedy, ROH, Mauler, and King
    -The “Speedy” type of rim is of key concern
    -As the cracks are developing from the inside out the rims need to be removed to fully inspect the integrity of the mounting base. Many of these cracked rims appeared to be completely normal from the outside

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    Re: Failure of Sunraysia 'Speedy' rims

    Thanks for the info Matty. I'm sure there will be a few of these rims out there...

    I love this quote

    - Supervisor was towing a lighting plant trailer when he noticed a change in the handling of the vehicle.
    - On investigation it was found that the wheel had cracked and separated from the rim hub.
    Man it would be one dramatic change in handling!!
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      Re: Failure of Sunraysia 'Speedy' rims

      I note that these warnings generally refer to a Sunraysia "Style" of rim and may not be a genuine Sunraysias but more possibly the cheap chinese copies that have been getting flogged as sunraysias?
      I do not see anywhere that they refer to the "speedy" type in any one situation, more a multitude of manufacturers of that "style" of rim.

      We just need to make sure that the correct information is posted and no particular brand is crucified unneedingly.. ops:

      It seems your warning and images may have come from the QLD mines site, and was issued on roughly Nov 18th, 2008? http://www.dme.qld.gov.au/zone_files/Mi ... ert211.pdf



      I notice that other posts of this nature on other sites have also been getting deleted??

      http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtop ... 067a4f0e35

      Also more noting that they seem to be the copies by the banding stripes..

      http://forums.overlander.com.au/viewtop ... 0c28f0fa80

      http://www.patrol4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23593

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