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How To Tell When a Wheel, Not a Tire, is Leaking

Most cars have alloy rims nowadays. And unlike steel rims, a fair number of these wheels leak air. It’s not a bead-seat surface leak, where air can creep out between the rim and rubber, but a leak through porosities in the cast-aluminum alloy.

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