Your best bet would be to check with your local junkyards. They will usually have a couple from salvage cars that have not been damaged.
You can of course buy them from a dealer, but you will get charged an insane amount for them.
The only potential issue is if you have the tire pressure monitor system. I don't know what is involved with the sensors, where they are installed, if they can be transferred, etc. Hopefully you either don't have TPMS, or someone else can shed some light on the subject.
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Your best bet would be to check with your local junkyards. They will usually have a couple from salvage cars that have not been damaged.
You can of course buy them from a dealer, but you will get charged an insane amount for them.
The only potential issue is if you have the tire pressure monitor system. I don't know what is involved with the sensors, where they are installed, if they can be transferred, etc. Hopefully you either don't have TPMS, or someone else can shed some light on the subject.
Thank you, I'll check junkyards around the area (not many)
Your best bet would be to check with your local junkyards. They will usually have a couple from salvage cars that have not been damaged.
You can of course buy them from a dealer, but you will get charged an insane amount for them.
The only potential issue is if you have the tire pressure monitor system. I don't know what is involved with the sensors, where they are installed, if they can be transferred, etc. Hopefully you either don't have TPMS, or someone else can shed some light on the subject.
Your best bet would be to check with your local junkyards. They will usually have a couple from salvage cars that have not been damaged.
You can of course buy them from a dealer, but you will get charged an insane amount for them.
The only potential issue is if you have the tire pressure monitor system. I don't know what is involved with the sensors, where they are installed, if they can be transferred, etc. Hopefully you either don't have TPMS, or someone else can shed some light on the subject.
junk yard should be very last spot to look for rims, if you can effort don't get junk yard rims, didn't say they are not good, but you never knows, you dont know they from retired car or accident car, if they are from accident car, they might be damage, twisted, and the very bottom line, they don't take them back once out of the door you are on your own. and yes they are cheap but as for myself I don't gamble.
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I've replaced two. One got bent and replaced with a junkyard one, $50. One to replace the donut with a real spare with a new generic wheel from Discount also about $50. Most tire shops sell these and they should be straight if new. The hubcap seems to fit fine so to me it's just easier to get the generic.
The only potential issue is if you have the tire pressure monitor system. I don't know what is involved with the sensors, where they are installed, if they can be transferred, etc. Hopefully you either don't have TPMS, or someone else can shed some light on the subject.
TPMS came on some 9th gens, but not all. I think it came on ABS cars, or was at least optional on ABS cars. At least on the 9th gen, it used no sensors in the wheels. It was simply a speed differential thing, measuring the speed of each wheel via the ABS reluctor rings. In essence, if one tire is low, its rolling radius will be smaller, and it'll rotate faster than the other three.
I don't know how junkyards operate or how they move their cards around. But on tv I see that the cars are picked up on cranes and then dropped from a couple of feet from the air. If the car has no air in the tires then the wheels take the impact causing the wheel to be seriously damaged or bent.
Just my reason I would stay away from the junkyard for wheels.
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