The rim of each wheel is spun between two rollers with heat applied resulting in a lighter stronger wheel.įULLY FORGED CONSTRUCTION.Our fully forged Tesla wheels are machined on a CNC machine from a single 6061-T6 aluminum forging to create a stronger lightweight wheel compared to our Flow Forged series.įITMENT.We offer our Tesla wheels similar (if not the same) as factory Tesla sizes. These have also resulted in product liability lawsuits. Several Floridians have died in crashes caused by or made worse by poorly designed features of Tesla’s electric vehicles. Massoud’s terrifying encounter with Tesla was far from the worst-case scenario. You can use your factory lug nuts, factory center cap (58mm diameter) and factory TPMS sensors.įLOW FORGED CONSTRUCTION.We manufacture our more affordable Tesla wheel collection in a flow forged construction. The car journalism world even had a term for it: whompy wheels.
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This means you don’t need aftermarket lug nuts, center caps, centering rings or additional hardware to install our wheels. Our wheels fit over all the Performance or Plaid big brake calipers on the Model S, 3, Y and X. This means our wheels will fit your Tesla with no issues just like Tesla factory wheels. At T Sportline, we manufacture wheels with Tesla factory specifications in mind. Tesla probably does, but it does not talk to the press.ALL ORIGINAL.
Could that alloy work for suspension components, or would it lack the necessary resistance? Casting specialists may have an answer for that.
When the company revealed its “mega castings” to replace entire body structures on its products, it said it had developed a new alloy that requires no heat treatment and no coating. At the same time, Tesla has a deep involvement with cast parts that makes us wonder about all this. Ironically, the suspension supplier may be one of the few cases in which Tesla does not produce the components on its own.
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This may be what caused multiple other cases of suspension failure in Tesla vehicles, such as when a Swiss driver saw that happen at 200 kph (124 mph) in an Autobahn. According to Tesla, Ningbo Tuopu would not have enough quench tank fluid for the parts to be fully quenched, resulting in weaker components. The cause for the deformation and fractures would be an issue with the thermal treatment of the knuckles. If they present the issue, Tesla will replace the components with properly built ones. The company will determine that by checking the front and rear knuckles in the potentially affected vehicles. Tesla said it believes only about 1% of these 826 Model Ys to be affected by the problem. Tesla warns that if the deformation or fracture is enough for the knuckles to separate from the suspension links, “the wheel alignment could shift and cause instability, which may adversely impact vehicle controllability and increase the risk of a collision.” Curiously, front suspension links were the cause for another Tesla recall back in October that involved 2,791 Model 3 and Model Y units. That condition may lead these knuckles to deform or fracture. According to the document, 826 units of the Tesla Model Y may present weak suspension knuckles. That’s what the company told NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) in the Part 573 Safety Recall Report about the new suspension issue.