Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
It's rare for an under-inflated tyre to cause the two halves of a wheel to separate,
It is rare for two halves of a wheel to separate full stop! What on Earth could have caused that?
I was thinking: soft tyre - heavy landing - soft tyre cannot cushion shock - wheel hits ground hard - rim separates. But highly improbable, I grant you.
So what then would have caused a rim to break off.......badly corroded wheel? A cheap refurbished wheel reassembled incorrectly with the wrong bolts, or re-using the old bolts, or torqued incorrectly perhaps?
My suspicion is a maintenance issue in some form.