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Other comments here say that production tires will have sidewalls to protect the spokes and keep out rocks. If so, I'm a bit disappointed since I like the look of the spokes.

Regarding catastrophic collision with sharp edge, I think these tires will be susceptible as well. If it's enough of a bump to "bottom out", it's going to dent the rim.

Also, your comment about potholes reminded me of a time that I was driving with a friend and we hit a pothole and got a flat. My friend was driving and looked a the flat front tire and said "I'm glad I have a spare". I look at the flat back tire and said "Unless you have two, we're still going to need assistance."

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> My friend was driving and looked a the flat front tire and said "I'm glad I have a spare". I look at the flat back tire and said "Unless you have two, we're still going to need assistance.

I did this one time. Ran over a pothole and bottomed out. As I'm replacing my front tire I look to my rear tire and see that it's also flat. That wasn't even the cherry on top. At that point I had my front wheel off and tried putting on the spare anyways.

I had a Kia Stinger GT and the GT version has Brembo brakes which have a much larger caliper than the regular version. Well QA at Kia never thought to check if their spare tire actually fits with the larger caliper. Spoiler alert: it doesn't.

How do you like the Stinger? I saw one of those the other day and did a double take on the Kia logo.

Been there, with a GM with a similar issue.

The manual stated something about putting the spare on a rear, then, taking the good rear and putting it in the front.

The rotors on the rear were smaller and could accommodate the spare. Obviously a moot point if one has two blown tires.

If you can't fix the bug, document the work-around.

Same situation. I usually pride myself on having good situational awareness, but something about the shock of suddenly having a flat on a major highway took it out of me. I replaced my front right tire, pulled back into the slow lane, only to finally realize my back right tire had also been blown out. I called roadside assistance, left the car there, and Uber'd home.

That was a rough day.

Are those spokes or springs? My mind had defaulted to "springs" given the zipzag shape and the typical function of a pneumatic tire. It didn't occur to me that they could function like spokes, where the vehicle hangs off the upper springs, until I read your comment. Why would the rim be so large and solid?

> Why would the rim be so large and solid

Not sure. Makes me think that it would be a good idea to make the inner rim diameter smaller, and have another layer of spokes/spings with a higher compression force.

i'm pretty sure you'd have about a hundred whistles if you left the voids exposed at highway speed.

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