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Oh what a Friday ... Purple Santa had an Epic Fail !!!

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Old 05-28-2016, 05:58 PM
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Oh what a Friday ... Purple Santa had an Epic Fail !!!

Vivid Racing and Vorsteiner are getting it handled, but I'll let you guys speculate on what it takes to cause this !!!




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Vivid Racing and Vorsteiner are getting it handled, but I'll let you guys speculate on what it takes to cause this !!!




Clearly that box hit a deep pothole...
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i drive them all, fast and hard
are you serious, thats how they pack their wheels....wtf

ive been to HRE factory and they have these big *** boxes, bubble wrap etc etc

wow....are those a "forged" set or cast
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Originally Posted by vdubpower
are you serious, thats how they pack their wheels....wtf

ive been to HRE factory and they have these big *** boxes, bubble wrap etc etc

wow....are those a "forged" set or cast
This is a cast (flow formed) set. This wheel missed QC completely. No foam around the lip and no cloth "condom". I highly doubt either would have protected it.

My previous HREs were foam packed on all sides, rim protectors, face protection etc. An HRE box is how this is being sent back actually.
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FF. W212 E63 M156 non-pano 18" P2 ParkT NightV (gone but will be missed).
With the ways packages are thrown and abused during transit, it wouldn't be a surprise if that's how they pack wheels. You better take your other seemingly intact wheels to an x-ray machine to check for micro fractures.
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This is definitely not Vorsteiners fault.
Looks like this wheel was on display somewhere and got repackaged.

And was this UPS or FedEx?
I see this all day long coming from UPS....

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