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As soon as my money is refunded I will share what went wrong with the whole process. The idea here is simply to share the experience and what I learned. I have no intention to malign the vendor since they did not have total control of the whole process. Their name will be left out. This should be all sorted out within ten days. The bad part is that I still have no original wheels for my SL. I have resolved to the fact that the dealer does have my wheels.
I'm certainly curious as well. If I remember correctly, that was the refurbished set from the NY area, that was for sale for quite awhile. They looked very nice in the pics, so I am wondering what went wrong.
Just a warning — buying remanufactured wheels on eBay is a potentially iffy proposition, and I had a bad experience with that seller.
Long story short, from what a local shop told me, if a rim has been bent, it will never be as resilient again. I bought a reconditioned wheel and somehow bent it without hitting anything of consequence; and sure enough there was evidence that it had been repaired before. Seller refused to confirm whether or not that was the case.
Okay, here's the deal. The wheels in the ebay ad above were sitting in my garage when that ad was posted. I was awaiting return labels to send them back. I have heard from another source of the poor quality products from this particular vendor. On one of the wheels the rim had been machined down so much that the tire shop felt it was unsafe to use the wheel. I have a very cooperative bank that was willing to step in and get my money refunded. Fortunately the vendor refunded my money after quite a bit of reluctance. After all of the damage was discovered I realized that the rear wheels were not even for my car.
Dave
Bent center piece Poor powder coating Broken stud Second broken stud on same wheel Several studs on all wheels not seated
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