Subdivision Surface and Smooth Shading problems

I’m working on a wheel, but the rim part is freaking me out. When applying Subdivision Surface combined to mirror and array modifiers, I got the followed:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/955/91011830.th.jpg

Any clue to fix that? I already tried to recalc normals, but didn’t work. I’m new at blender, so if anyone knows a tutorial to avoid this issues, i’d be thankful.

I think you have faces “inside” the outer rim, running across that rim. Go into “Face” mode in edit mode and see if there is face running across each of those outer segments. If so, delete it (but not the vertices).

AN

Jonathan Williamson did a tute on wheel making that may offer some clues:

Check for internal faces at either end of your object

that worked! thank you guys, i had to exclude the internal edges too, now its perfect!! thank you