Rant + Crappy Teaser
#1
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Rant + Crappy Teaser
So I left my baby in the garage in mid-August as I left for college, after paying a hefty repair bill for a valve cover gasket and rear main engine seal repair. Ok, I knew it would need that repair, and got that price cut out of the price of the car when I bought it in July. Not fun not having the car for a week, but I will live.
So I buy a set of used Weds Kranze ERM's to refinish and throw on the car. I take them to a shop I've used before locally to repaint the wheels, and they tell me ok they will be done in a week. (this is early August) A month later, when I'm off at college already, they finally call that the wheels are done. Fine. I have my dad pick them up for me, and having ordered my spacers already, the wheels should be all ready to go on the car. I get to visit home for a weekend this past weekend, and low and behold, the f***ers at the shop I took the wheels to managed to mount two of the faces to the wrong barrels/lips...
I noticed after mounting the rears onto the car, and finding that one seemed to stick out much more than the other. Well, this is a serious problem because now one of the fronts doesn't clear the brakes. Great. I decided to take it for a spin just for a sec with the new wheels on the rears since they have good tires, but as I'm backing out I notice a strange knocking noise. ****, must be the different offset wheels? after rebolting up the rears, the noise stayed so I decided ok, I'll take the wheels back, and they better fix this for free since I payed a good amount to have these redone, and it took them a damn month. Fine, I'll just enjoy the car this weekend with the old wheels.
So I put the old wheels back on, and back the car out again, but low and behold, the knocking noise is back. So I don't get to enjoy the car this weekend, and the car will be going back to the dealership to find out whats wrong, which means the money I get from the old wheels will go to the repair now, instead of coilovers![smash](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smashfreak.gif)
anyway, good news is it looked amazing with the wheels on. Once I lower it, I'll order new lips for the fronts and rears to space them out![naughty](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/naughty.gif)
Coilovers will be coming this summer. Picture is **** too, I'll do a photoshoot when I go back in mid october when everything is on
![](http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p311/icedudepw/My%20Car/IMG_0152.jpg)
So I buy a set of used Weds Kranze ERM's to refinish and throw on the car. I take them to a shop I've used before locally to repaint the wheels, and they tell me ok they will be done in a week. (this is early August) A month later, when I'm off at college already, they finally call that the wheels are done. Fine. I have my dad pick them up for me, and having ordered my spacers already, the wheels should be all ready to go on the car. I get to visit home for a weekend this past weekend, and low and behold, the f***ers at the shop I took the wheels to managed to mount two of the faces to the wrong barrels/lips...
I noticed after mounting the rears onto the car, and finding that one seemed to stick out much more than the other. Well, this is a serious problem because now one of the fronts doesn't clear the brakes. Great. I decided to take it for a spin just for a sec with the new wheels on the rears since they have good tires, but as I'm backing out I notice a strange knocking noise. ****, must be the different offset wheels? after rebolting up the rears, the noise stayed so I decided ok, I'll take the wheels back, and they better fix this for free since I payed a good amount to have these redone, and it took them a damn month. Fine, I'll just enjoy the car this weekend with the old wheels.
So I put the old wheels back on, and back the car out again, but low and behold, the knocking noise is back. So I don't get to enjoy the car this weekend, and the car will be going back to the dealership to find out whats wrong, which means the money I get from the old wheels will go to the repair now, instead of coilovers
![smash](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/smashfreak.gif)
anyway, good news is it looked amazing with the wheels on. Once I lower it, I'll order new lips for the fronts and rears to space them out
![naughty](https://mbworld.org/forums/images/smilies/naughty.gif)
Coilovers will be coming this summer. Picture is **** too, I'll do a photoshoot when I go back in mid october when everything is on
![](http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p311/icedudepw/My%20Car/IMG_0152.jpg)
![](http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p311/icedudepw/My%20Car/photo.jpg)
Last edited by pww; 09-21-2010 at 05:30 PM.
#3
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I started a thread asking about the problem and ruled out the lugs because the noise continued with the old wheels and stock lugs. I'm fairly certain its coming from the axle
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Unless using the stock lugs damaged the parking brake I believe is what I heard at some point? Someone damaged something and had the same issue... You need to fix it, and get the correct size lugs, or I could be completely wrong.
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#5
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I'm confused. Using stock lugs broke my parking brake?
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I believe what GT4 was saying is that the stock lugs with the aftermarket wheels are many times too long and could have damaged (bent) a part in the parking brake setup, and when you put the stock wheels back on that part was still damaged so it was still hitting whatever it was hitting.