The carbon front wheel on my 5 month old Giant TCR has wrinkled and bubbled out along about 40cm of the rim. 00921C34-D49F-4B53-B2BC-8895796C5DB1.jpg
Hasn’t been on a hitch rack next to an exhaust or exposed to any high temps.
It’s back in the shop waiting on a warranty assessment. Fingers crossed it all gets sorted out.
There are a few examples on the internet of very similar failures to the same wheel where apparently a warranty had been denied as Giant claimed heat damage from being left in the back of a hot car.
Is it even plausible that the 70c/160f temps that a really hot car might reach could cause a wheel to fail like this?
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