How does that work, you ask?

Doing some relatively innocent riding around some hills near the house with my buddy on our Grizzlies. Somewhere along the way, the bottom rear caliper bolt fell out. Not the long, thick one that holds the pads in, but the flange bolt that holds the caliper’s steel bracket to the vehicle. A 12MM bolt, I think.

The caliper then proceeding to bang into the inside of my ITP SS112 wheel a few times – enough to crack it in 3-4 places.

So … one wheel, another bottle of Highlifter sealant, and about $16 bucks worth of shipping means that one bolt cost me $100. Probably $20 for the local tire place to swap the tire for me, I’m sure.

And that doesn’t include the cost of the new bolt … 🙂