Just had my W Reg GS300 3 Weeks and turning into work today had a knocking from the front left corner.

Pulled up and found all 5 spokes on the Front Left Wheel had cracks in them, 2 of them were clean through.

Went to fit spare and realised that 4 spokes were cracked on this.

Has anyone come across this before as the private garage I use said it could only
be a manufacturing fault but Lexus say they have never come across this before.

Not sure now if I am safe just replacing the 2 cracked ones or if I need to replace the complete set.


Cheers

Andy

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Just had my W Reg GS300 3 Weeks and turning into work today had a knocking from the front left corner.

Pulled up and found all 5 spokes on the Front Left Wheel had cracks in them, 2 of them were clean through.

Went to fit spare and realised that 4 spokes were cracked on this.

Has anyone come across this before as the private garage I use said it could only
be a manufacturing fault but Lexus say they have never come across this before.

Not sure now if I am safe just replacing the 2 cracked ones or if I need to replace the complete set.


Cheers

Andy
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It might be an idea to ask the person you purchased it from what happened.

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[quote name='AndyT-GS300' timestamp='1318352038' post='764994']
Just had my W Reg GS300 3 Weeks and turning into work today had a knocking from the front left corner.

Pulled up and found all 5 spokes on the Front Left Wheel had cracks in them, 2 of them were clean through.

Went to fit spare and realised that 4 spokes were cracked on this.

Has anyone come across this before as the private garage I use said it could only
be a manufacturing fault but Lexus say they have never come across this before.

Not sure now if I am safe just replacing the 2 cracked ones or if I need to replace the complete set.


Cheers

Andy
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It might be an idea to ask the person you purchased it from what happened.
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Thanks but it was purchased from a garage who got it from another garage that had take it as a part exchange.

There was no visible signs of damage to the wheel on the car before it failed this morning.

Asked my local garage if it could have been a fault on the car that had caused it to fail but they're sure it wasn't.

The spoke are repairable, if it helps.

the doc has spoken the master of things that run on wheels

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Thanks but it was purchased from a garage who got it from another garage that had take it as a part exchange.

There was no visible signs of damage to the wheel on the car before it failed this morning.

Asked my local garage if it could have been a fault on the car that had caused it to fail but they're sure it wasn't.
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If you bought it from a garage they should sort it out FOC unless you bought it as a "trade purchase".