Did the guy at least acknowledge the fact that that was shady as fucking hell?
not really, he was/is a scumball that tried to fuck me… someone tried to sand down the mark to hide the damage yet the guy didnt mention it in ad or admit anything really… he goes its from a track driven viper and theres absolutely no damage bla bla bla, but when i said to him I really want my money back but i will accept $600 as a partial refund he goes “id rather you enjoy the wheels, ill refund you $600”… He just didnt want to pay $200 for me to return them and risk selling them to another buyer thats gonna return them as well… w.e im happy with the $600 and will have minty powdercoated wheels plus a free $200 for the original price I paid for the wheels… I dont ever plan to track the car and the wheel balanced out fine so im hoping itll be fine for me.
Good deal.
$600 is still pretty substantial however i still wouldn’t rock them. don’t sacrifice on wheels/tire/brakes
i’m sure mike will let you know his thoughts when he sees them in person, if he says they’re okay id trust him
That wheel (judging by pictures only) is NOT safe. I’m not going to go over theory/explanation on here, but that is one step from looking like a destroyed Rota Grid on track day.
I’ve seen the after math of running a wheel IDENTICAL to that. It’s hard to tell from the picture the extent of the inflection…but a dis-formity (forced or factory) like that mid barrel can leave you in a world of shit.
-Private Pyle
^^^ listen to him
well lets see here…the wheel now is deformed and will be less structually sound in the x direction and could fold up when in compression if the loads are high enough. i sure as shit wouldnt be doing any serious cornering.
Sell three make most if not all of your money back. Turn the fucked one into an end table or lamp or something I don’t know I’m not on that queer eye show.
something wasnt installed right or fell off while racing and dug/rolled a bead into the main structure into the wheel. eek man.
Yeah if that wheel goes while you’re driving you’ll be out more money than you saved on getting a partial refund. Not to mention potential for injury.
let me put it to you this way, would you drive around on 5 lugs even though the car was designed for 6? would you put a wheel on your car with a cracked spoke too? return them, get some new HRE wheels.
he did.
Can’t you just buy a new barrel?
YES
Can’t be a baller on a budget.
these are custom made in japan, that might take all summer to get. but i wouldnt rock them as is.
when i hit powerball ill make my own custom video throwing money shouting “shapow” for you… until then im just a working citizen trying to save my money and have fun and make myself happy on the side.
If I had access to a single 18x10 wheel right now, id grab it, because I dont, I choose to roll with it… Sbardy took the wheel to Kost to get balanced for me, while odd, when he asked if it was fucked, they laughed and didnt want to even balance it saying its fine to run… made them and it balanced perfect. Mike wood conqured that the wheel should be fine to run.
Well i know its blasphemy to say this but in this case mike is wrong…
Kost tire is all knowing. whatever those high school drop outs say is true. i mean shit, they ballance tires all day, that has to count for something. :Idiots
i actually have no idea who they were/are, i couldnt leave my store so I asked john if he could go somewhere to see if the wheel would balance, he went there. :dunno
I wouldnt spend $400 to powdercoat them if I didnt trust mike/others but no sense in further discussing it, only time will tell.