Wrecked Alloys!!!, Just had to replace all my wheels on my Celi.... Options

[Racer_J]

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!




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



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

[richee3]

Post a FS thread in that section on here. I'm sure somebody could use your wheels!

As far as your story goes, that sucks! I mean, hopefully you like the wheels you got and in the end you think it's worth it, but nonetheless, being forced to buy new wheels out of the blue sucks. I've had terrible luck with my tires.. I haven't even had my car 2 years yet and I'm on my third set of tires. The wheels weren't aligned when I got the car, so that finished the first set off in a hurry. The place my parents go to to get new tires and alignments and all that good stuff SUCKS! So they did a half-a**ed job and threw some tires on the car that they knew wouldn't last so we'd have to come right back for another alignment and new tires. And I knew they'd do that before I ever walked out the door, but my parents were paying for it and wouldn't let me argue. Well, the tires lasted 10,000 miles and had wires showing. Keep in mind I never floored it or did any spirited driving whatsoever in those 4 months. So this time my parents listened to me and let me take the car where I wanted for the alignment and put the tires I want on it. I could have gotten some tires that will last longer, but I REALLY wanted some Falken Ziex 512's But these are screwed now too. Another deer jumped out in front of me the other day and I had to slam on my brakes so now I have huge flat spots on my tires. So less than 2 years later, I need new tires again. I feel your pain.

But hopefully you like the new rims! Get some pics up for us