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Originally Posted by rick3000
A thinner sidewall will make you more prone to damage, but it is still not that common unless your do something radical.
It is also the quality of the rims, if your buying cheap replicas they are probably more prone to problems than the real thing. I like my 17" rims, because they absorb quite a bit of the bumps in the road which is nice, since my car is a DD. If your car is only driven on weekends and/or in the summer then go for the 18" or 19"'s.
How often do hear of someone cracking or bending any rims unless they were on the track or in an accident?
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I am living in NM in the winter now, but have spent most of the last 25 years in Alaska, and those roads surely do ruin some alloy wheels! But, they can be truly awful, as in breaking all kinds of front-end parts, as well as wheels. My car will be a DD, more or less, anyway. It doesn't sound like many people have had issues with even the very low aspect ratio 19s, so I should probably stop worrying about it, and get back to making the choice between a Boxster and a Cayman.