Obviously any wheel can and will crack under the right circumstances. There is no such thing as that magical metal in Black Panther. But engineers are pretty good at by now at knowing what road conditions are in the US, how their cars will be used, and what forces will hit the wheels through the factory tires.

Source?

You don’t have everything.  If the choice is cracked wheel vs shaving a second off a lap time, you take the latter. No one intentionally designs a wheel to fail just to make the car faster for a while before it fails.

No dents or bends or cracks on my CX-9. 140k miles on 20's. Making wheels strong enough to support the forces that will regularly be exerted upon them is literally someone’s job. It’s just math and engineers do it all day every day.  Either someone messed up or it was  a manufacturing defect, or I guess a very very…

I’ve driven on 275/35/18's and 265/30/18s on my medium-grade aftermarket wheels.  No cracks, deformations, or anything in about seven years/40k miles.

It’s more of a “ROH-buht”. You sort of glance over the second syllable. 

It’s very possible to make wheels strong enough to not be bent/cracked when wrapped in low profile tires. Since the engineers knew the exact tires that would be installed on these wheels, there’s no excuse for them to not account for that.

I said that yes, your neighbors’ property condition affects the value of your own. OP said it wasn’t his job to make my house look good, he’s gonna do him. I said (again, missing a few words that apparently were needed) that it’s not his job, but that since our homes values are linked, it’s in our best interests to…

So you’re hung up on my one word, “except”, instead of the many other hundreds of words I typed across several comments after that? Are you my wife? I think you’re my wife.

Wasn’t the Elio going to start at 9k or something? I thought the value prop with those was literally the value - the low price.

Bottom line - your property value doesn’t automatically give you the right to an opinion anyone should listen to, much less enforce.

This is a valid point to discuss!

I’m not interested in getting into a debate and doing a bunch of research about specific studies that show data that may or may not prove anything. Bottom line is that property value is impacted by the condition of the property nearby. I never said specifically how large the effect is, so I’m not sure who you are…

I spent X to build our home, moved in July of 2015. Our next door neighbors, who have a home 4 years older, same square footage, one fewer bedrooms and half fewer baths, lower grade finishings, on a smaller and less desirable lot sold their home for 1.2X in about 36 hours of being listed last week. So conservatively,…

That’s not true at all. There are many people with money who are slobs, lazy, have poor taste/judgement, or just don’t care about their homes. They build crappy sheds, never mow or weed their yards, don’t landscape, and have cars in their driveways on jackstands for weeks on end.

I’ve driven through probably north of…

There are many, many, many external factors that play a part in property value. I mentioned one - the appeal and value of neighboring properties, and you mentioned another - a strong local economy. You can have a nicely-kept neighborhood with a down economy and housing value will drop. Or you can have a booming…

Except, the value of your home is tied to the value of your neighbors home, and vice versa. When you buy a home in a neighborhood with an HOA , you agree that you’ll keep your stuff nice just like everyone else said they will. This isn’t a selfish thing, it’s a community thing.

Bloggers =/= journalists.

If you just want to assume something why bother asking me?

I’m not sure. Go get the dimensions of the engine bay along with dimensions of all components including the engine itself that need to fit in the bay, then go get some diagrams showing how said components all fit together... then give it to an automotive engineer. Maybe he can help.