Need new wheels, please help me decide.

[scooter99]

Ok guys, I had an incident yesterday while on the freeway headed to my parents house. I hit a pothole, or a break in the road, or something. I don't know but it jarred me pretty good. By me, I mean it rattled my teeth. It sounded like a huge boom. Anyway, I had no ill effects afterwards, and nothing seemed out of place or abnormal on driving. No vibrations of an out of balanced wheel, no alignment issues, no flat, nothing seemed wrong. After driving for another 30 minutes to my parents house, I forgot about looking at it. When I was leaving I noticed the wheel seemed off. Upon further review, it was pretty bent. Here check it out.

I drove home last night, thinking damn I have a bent wheel, but figured it was still ok to drive. Again, no effects to say otherwise, besides an ungodly looking wheel. But now that matches the other 3 effed up wheels I have. I've so failed these wheels. Anyway, got home last night fine, dropped the kids off today fine, and drove to work this morning. Parked and went and looked at it again, and noticed something else. The wheel is not only bent, its cracked also.

So now I'm going to be forced to buy new wheels, if for nothing else safety. Well let's be honest, I could just buy one new one, and live with the others, but meh if I'm buying new I'll buy all new. So I've narrowed it down to a pair. I had a couple others I was looking at before, which everyone else was kind enough to give input on, but I've since talked myself out of those. So these are what i'm looking at now.

First the car so you can see what it's going on.

TSW - MARIBEAU 18X8

And

TSW - MALLORY 18x8

So once again, I could use your input or opinions on those two. Which do you guys like better?

Thanks for the help!

[Kyblack76]

Damn bro.... Thats the shits!. Glad nothing serious happened to the car, or you!.

(Looking at the wheels now... )

[Chris Hammer]

TSW - MARIBEAU 18X8

Hard decision, both look so clean I don't think either one is a bad choice.

[scooter99]

Yeah, it seems very close to a blowout to me. But maybe I'm reading more into it than I should. The crack is pretty large though. Looks worse in person.

[WastedTalent]

TSW - MALLORY 18x8 has my vote

[08tahoe]

Kind of a hard choice but i say the first ones (maribeau).

[Skullz]

TSW - MALLORY 18x8 is what i would get.

[scooter99]

Pretty close vote, thanks guys. Starting to look like I can't really go wrong either way.

[IBleedMusick]

Very close vote. Glad you only used these 2 and not all 4

[scooter99]

Wasn't fond of the other two like these. These two really jump out to me.