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'11 C350 '13 F150 lariat
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u already know I agree Hotel LOL. But I guess we are the few with wheels around these parts. I personally would ride stocks for however long it takes to save up for the right set before I skimped out on wheels. I learned the hard way about being hot in the *** to hook up a ride and get sumthing just decent. A few weeks/later you are tryin to sell them to re-coop ur loss to get the ones u really wanted, Ive done it more than once. And sportstick I actually had a set of powerwheels reps on my clk and they were good quality wheels, I also had 2 sets from ebay that were brabus reps and amg reps and both got bent inner lips and outers from just potholes here in NJ. I know from seeing hotel post he waited til he had his ducks in a row and picked up a beuatiful set of vossens, he rode the car stock wheeled for a while, thats how its done my friends, wait til u get what u want not what u can afford at the moment.....
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u already know I agree Hotel LOL. But I guess we are the few with wheels around these parts. I personally would ride stocks for however long it takes to save up for the right set before I skimped out on wheels. I learned the hard way about being hot in the *** to hook up a ride and get sumthing just decent. A few weeks/later you are tryin to sell them to re-coop ur loss to get the ones u really wanted, Ive done it more than once. And sportstick I actually had a set of powerwheels reps on my clk and they were good quality wheels, I also had 2 sets from ebay that were brabus reps and amg reps and both got bent inner lips and outers from just potholes here in NJ. I know from seeing hotel post he waited til he had his ducks in a row and picked up a beuatiful set of vossens, he rode the car stock wheeled for a while, thats how its done my friends, wait til u get what u want not what u can afford at the moment.....
u already know I agree Hotel LOL. But I guess we are the few with wheels around these parts. I personally would ride stocks for however long it takes to save up for the right set before I skimped out on wheels. I learned the hard way about being hot in the *** to hook up a ride and get sumthing just decent. A few weeks/later you are tryin to sell them to re-coop ur loss to get the ones u really wanted, Ive done it more than once. And sportstick I actually had a set of powerwheels reps on my clk and they were good quality wheels, I also had 2 sets from ebay that were brabus reps and amg reps and both got bent inner lips and outers from just potholes here in NJ. I know from seeing hotel post he waited til he had his ducks in a row and picked up a beuatiful set of vossens, he rode the car stock wheeled for a while, thats how its done my friends, wait til u get what u want not what u can afford at the moment.....
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Another round of ICE
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u already know I agree Hotel LOL. But I guess we are the few with wheels around these parts. I personally would ride stocks for however long it takes to save up for the right set before I skimped out on wheels. I learned the hard way about being hot in the *** to hook up a ride and get sumthing just decent. A few weeks/later you are tryin to sell them to re-coop ur loss to get the ones u really wanted, Ive done it more than once. And sportstick I actually had a set of powerwheels reps on my clk and they were good quality wheels, I also had 2 sets from ebay that were brabus reps and amg reps and both got bent inner lips and outers from just potholes here in NJ. I know from seeing hotel post he waited til he had his ducks in a row and picked up a beuatiful set of vossens, he rode the car stock wheeled for a while, thats how its done my friends, wait til u get what u want not what u can afford at the moment.....
u already know I agree Hotel LOL. But I guess we are the few with wheels around these parts. I personally would ride stocks for however long it takes to save up for the right set before I skimped out on wheels. I learned the hard way about being hot in the *** to hook up a ride and get sumthing just decent. A few weeks/later you are tryin to sell them to re-coop ur loss to get the ones u really wanted, Ive done it more than once. And sportstick I actually had a set of powerwheels reps on my clk and they were good quality wheels, I also had 2 sets from ebay that were brabus reps and amg reps and both got bent inner lips and outers from just potholes here in NJ. I know from seeing hotel post he waited til he had his ducks in a row and picked up a beuatiful set of vossens, he rode the car stock wheeled for a while, thats how its done my friends, wait til u get what u want not what u can afford at the moment.....
For some of us, it's not a matter of saving up, which I would not need to do if I really thought wheels with 4 digit prices were worth the price. I would just never spend that amount on wheels. I don't see it as "skimping"; I just don't see the value. I wanted good quality wheels, in a design I liked, somewhere in the hundreds of dollars, not thousands, and Powerwheelspro provides them, so the goal was achieved. My only real point to Hotel was not there are aren't a lot of poor quality cheap wheels, but price is not an absolute predictor and with careful shopping, good wheels can be found for reasonable prices, and that high prices are not a guarantee of good quality. The issue is the wheel, not the price tag.
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'11 C350 '13 F150 lariat
that is true sportstick, we see alot of that around here with people not shopping around and paying way too much for stuff. there is some good values out there, but if your looking for really well built LIGHT wheels, your gonna pay 4 digits all day long. Factory looking replicas are a big market w luxury cars especially european vehicles. My biggest peeve is these guys selling wheels on ebay for 400-500 bucks that arent even JWL certified and cheap alloys and finish quality. Being in the auto body biz for a number of years I cant tell u how many cars Ive seen come in with aftermarket wheels damaged due to poor quality, its pretty common and scary. Lots of people buy these cars for safety and use cheap tires and wheels too and it makes no sense to me
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Another round of ICE
that is true sportstick, we see alot of that around here with people not shopping around and paying way too much for stuff. there is some good values out there, but if your looking for really well built LIGHT wheels, your gonna pay 4 digits all day long. Factory looking replicas are a big market w luxury cars especially european vehicles. My biggest peeve is these guys selling wheels on ebay for 400-500 bucks that arent even JWL certified and cheap alloys and finish quality. Being in the auto body biz for a number of years I cant tell u how many cars Ive seen come in with aftermarket wheels damaged due to poor quality, its pretty common and scary. Lots of people buy these cars for safety and use cheap tires and wheels too and it makes no sense to me
