minitruckin mags semi wheel!!!!

Not in that scenario...no Sir.

An accident would be if someones stock 16" wheel/"E" rated tire disintegrated causing their dually's factory frame to fail, which in turn caused their commercially available and load-rated goose neck hitch to fail and their properly loaded wedge plowed into my family.

Anything other than that is spelled n-e-g-l-i-g-e-n-t. Like it or not, I am right.

Even if its negligence it would result in one law suit, and most likely nothing more. The automotive aftermarket has lobbyist's just like everyone else, you think something like thats never happened? People have been customizing vehicles since the beginning of cars. That will probably never change. Of course in me saying this i live in a state that barely has any laws regulating anything concerning vehicle customization. There is a lot of really hacked up trucks and cars over here that i would be/am scared to ride next too. Laws and regulations just dont pop up over night, that shit takes for ever lol, and what happens most of the time is it just gets lost in a committee some where. They have been trying to change the age to get a drivers liscense here to 18 for longer than i can remember and its never happened. Every time a bill gets up there it just disappears. the same thing happens with bills that ban stuff for the aftermarket. The fact is that sema spends millions of dollars a year doing everything they can to keep any kind of bill against the automotive after market from getting passed.

On the subject of these wheels, did anyone ever think it might be a problem from when the wheel was made at alcoa that was just stressed a little extra from being milled. Diesel wheels is a branch of reds which has been doing semi wheels along time. I know several people who have been running there wheels for 5-6 years and never had a problem. So im shure he knows what hes doing, not saying he didnt mess this set up. but the point is its not some fly by night operation.

Number one, I dont think there are near enough milled wheels on the road to warrant federal intervention. And out of that small number of wheels being turned down, how many of you know of a failed wheel first hand?
Number two, the way i read the artical was they inserted "diesel" for "semi". Not that they were Diesel Brand wheels, but wheels off a diesel. I could be wrong though. That being said, the wheel in question could have come from any joe blow w/ a grinder or a lathe.

Agreed on all points. I'd like to know who it came from and what happened. That's all. It just raises some questions.

All it takes is one failure to bring about a lawsuit. It may be a little far fetched as of January 2009, but I honestly believe that federal involvement and regulation, to some degree, will become a reality in the future. Increasing popularity brings scrutiny. Scrutiny brings investigation. Investigation brings litigation. It's big governments circle of life. At the end of the day in our big government reality, the DOT and NTSB hold a lot more water than the SEMA Action Network.

I'm not picking sides, per say. I HATE big government. I'm simply stating that a lot of shops are literally taking peoples lives in their hands, and in doing so, also taking on an immense amount of liability. I'm not talking about some drop shop bolting on a Western Chassis drop kit and calling it a day. I believe those folks are relatively safe. I'm talking about the guys who modify vehicles in regards to the core safety components, ultimately rendering the NHTSA's crash test ratings worthless.

It's just a matter of time...

Then again...maybe I'm just being dramatic.

Havent read all of the post on here but I have seen the mag and dont really know what or how this happened. We have cut a wheel hoop completely off just to see how thick the aluminum was where we machine the beads. It is nearly 1.5" thick where I mill my beads. They only thing I see happening to cause this, is that way too much material was removed.
I send my custom cut wheels off to have them load tested whenever I have a new design and with the most drastic design I have the wheel still withstood upwards of 2.5 tons of pressure before it started forming stress cracks. This shows the wheels will perform outside of there perameters set by the companies and DOT.

Thanks lock that's what I was wanting to know.

And see Campy you were just being a tool. He does test his stuff.

Yeah, Man, that's good to know. Do you have some sort of cert of compliance available upon request for your customers?

I just don