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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 07:25 AM
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Cin just back in town from that Orlando trip I was telling you about. I had no idea there were issues with the wheels as you know I'm the third owner and only got the car last October. PM me and I will work something out with you. I feel bad that there was an issue
No prob... as I stated before I doubted you would have been aware of it.

The thing is that with both front tires shot and the rears with only a little tread left I have ended up spending way more than anticipated for everything... then to find out I would need both front wheels repaired... well you know...

Thanks for wanting to make things right... will PM you.
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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 10:06 AM
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Here are the pictures of the damage... not too bad so hopefully fixing will be easy.







Look at all the weights they used on one of the wheels to try and get it balanced...

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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 10:49 AM
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One of my stock GS rims has the same size bend, and although it looks minimal the sensitive GS will give you a shake at 60-70mph. My tire shop also stuck on a lot of those balancing weights opposite of the bend to counterbalance the imperfection, but I still feel it on highway speed. They will definetely be able to straighten that out. Let us know if it smooth as glass.
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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 12:51 PM
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john that will not be a prob fixing that wheel so dont worry
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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 12:55 PM
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Yes, hopefully they will fix it back to perfect.

I figured since they will be doing the balance there as soon as they think the bend is out they will be able to determine if it needs more work or not.

The tires I purchased are great, not rough at all and I really feel once the wheel is fixed I am going to be very happy with the ride.



Will let everyone know how it all plays out.
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Old Jul 26, 2005 | 01:22 PM
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Dropped off the wheels at Transwheel. They assured me that as long as nothing goes wrong getting out the bends they will get the wheel truer than factory specs. They work the wheel to a better tolerence than factory...



Lets hope this is true... the downside is it is running me close to $200.00 with tax.



Hopefully my seller on these is going to help me out here though, I am leaving it up to him as to how we work out the purchase of bent wheels since in reality he doesn't have to do anything for me if he doesn't want to. He didn't know they were damaged and I took his word that there were not damaged so we both made some mistakes... maybe split the cost to repair or something...

Motu1 is a good guy though, sure we will work something out.
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