Style 285 RIM Crack

Hopefully someone can help me out here.

Over the December holidays I did my usual trek from Cape Town to the Eastern Cape with my family. Once I was there, I decided to change my rear tyres at TWT. They got me a good deal on a pair of 17" Bridgestone Potenza RE050 tyres.

However the following day to my amazement I saw that the rear left tyre (one of the new tyres) was flat! So i called BMW on call as I'm still on motorplan. They came out with a spare tyre and we took the one with the puncture and dunked it in the pool to see where the air leak was coming from, funny enough it wasn't coming from the tyre! The rim had a hair line crack on the inside where it looks like the crack is on a seam. The on call guy said that it could have been damaged by TWT when they were removing the old tyre. I took it to BMW and they obviously won't admit it to being a defect as it cracked it on the seam. So motorplan won't cover it.

Can this rim be repaired or will i have to replace it? Is there any danger in repairing it? Its the style 285 rim. New rim at stealers is about R2700.



thanks.