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post Nov 24, 2008 - 1:22 PM
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Hi guys/girls

So I'm driving down the road the other day on my way home from work when I see something emerge from under the car in front. By the time I realised what it was (a brick), I'd hit it. Now I'm doing like 70mph at the time and didn't have much time to avoid it. Anyway, there was this gut-wrenching BANG!!! followed by a wobbling of the steering wheel.

When I got home, I took the drivers side front wheel off and inspected the damage. Only thing was, there wasn't any! So I put the wheel back on and thought nothing more of it until the following day.

Next day I went out in the car with my Girlfirend. Straight away, she started going on about the wobble on the steering wheel and a low frequency "buffetting" noise and said she thought there was something seriously wrong with my car.

So I swing by my usual wheel/tyre place and have them check the wheel balancing. He puts the wheel on his machine and hey presto - bent as a £7 note!

Had to replace ALL of my wheels there and then! B*llocks!


Anyway I settled for some Wolfrace Triads.

I've got no pics as yet but I'll post 'em as soon as I have.

Rant over!

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P.S Does anyone fancy buying 3 really good wheels and ever-so-slightly buckled wheel for their Celi???.....thought not

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This post has been edited by Racer_J: Nov 24, 2008 - 1:23 PM


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post Dec 6, 2008 - 12:06 PM
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^^^ If only the rest of the rest of the world thought like that... Personally, I'm getting kind of sick of seeing old a** Monte Carlo's with expensive paint jobs and 20"+ rims. Just take that money and invest it in a decent car, people... Lol.


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- Racer_J   Wrecked Alloys!!!   Nov 24, 2008 - 1:22 PM
- - richee3   Post a FS thread in that section on here. I'm ...   Nov 24, 2008 - 2:50 PM
- - RickJamesBish   Damn dude, that sucks. My dad did the same thing i...   Nov 24, 2008 - 3:31 PM
- - Racer_J   Hey, thanks for the reply! Bad luck with t...   Nov 24, 2008 - 3:38 PM
- - richee3   Yeah, that's exactly the problem lol. The tire...   Nov 24, 2008 - 3:54 PM
- - Racer_J   Those rims were japanese rims, KTS. The one neare...   Nov 24, 2008 - 5:29 PM
- - RickJamesBish   Look good, but how bad is it and for how much woul...   Nov 24, 2008 - 5:31 PM
- - richee3   I like!!! If I could find a fourth, an...   Nov 24, 2008 - 5:38 PM
- - Racer_J   OK guys, Not the best pic, but here's a shot ...   Dec 5, 2008 - 5:34 AM
- - Kotass   Not bad but these KTS are f*ucking hot and I like ...   Dec 5, 2008 - 5:50 AM
|- - Racer_J   QUOTE (Kotass @ Dec 5, 2008 - 10:50 ...   Dec 5, 2008 - 6:09 AM
- - Kotass   No doubt .. these must be nice as well only pics a...   Dec 5, 2008 - 6:17 AM
- - richee3   I really like those KTS rims. But the new ones are...   Dec 5, 2008 - 4:30 PM
- - Racer_J   Thanks for the feedback guys. Yeah, the new rims ...   Dec 6, 2008 - 4:23 AM
- - richee3   ^^^ If only the rest of the rest of the world thou...   Dec 6, 2008 - 12:06 PM
- - RickJamesBish   Both sets of wheels were unique and looked good.   Dec 6, 2008 - 2:41 PM
- - Racer_J   OK guys, as promised, here's the new pics.......   Dec 15, 2008 - 11:57 AM
- - richee3   That's a clean Celi! I envy your car.   Dec 15, 2008 - 12:48 PM
- - bmj67   Nice pics. How do you make the b/w background and...   Dec 15, 2008 - 2:55 PM
- - Racer_J   The technique is called colour "popping...   Dec 16, 2008 - 3:47 AM


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