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Originally Posted by kcdehart
You bring up a good point with the side-to-side stress. I usually think about impact protection with wheels, but I'd imagine a cheap wheel might not be made to withstand the twisting forces put on it by crawling over something at an angle.
I'm not really looking into wheels, as I'm typically a function > form kinda person, but was just curious.
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Level 8's are fine. I've never read or seen that a set of cheap wheels failed on their own on this site. I've seen plenty of broken wheels in accident posts but nothing where the wheel just gave up. There will always be two crowds though, one that says they're fine and another that says they will probably fail. Usually the people that say they're fine are running them, so take that into consideration.
Coming from a sport car back ground myself (s2000 + WRX), I've seen a handful of wheel failures on the track and they were on high end, stock, and cheap wheels. I did not notice any greater occurrence of wheel failures coming from cheap wheels then either.
Also, in regard to you mentioning the tire being a factor you are correct, the amount of rubber does reduce/cushion the stress the wheel takes. FWIW I run SCS wheels and would run and almost did run Level 8's.