Login before you read YellowBulletOriginally Posted by ReiKo
--Joe
Login before you read YellowBullet
--Joe
moral of the story is inspect before use but isn't that what most people do with race parts is check them out drool over them for a while then put it on your car. I have them on the front ran all last year on them no problems so I picked up the rears. I don't know of at one company that hasn't sent out a phucked up item, should have stated this first, if it is a large quantity item like wheels. If your have seen their set up a machince welds them and it could have been misaligned that day or someone not checking too many variables to consider. The other thing I never saw in that post was how fast the guy turn onto the return road, that will play a major factor in how much side load was applied to the wheel. Drag wheels are not designed to turn hard! Well I am getting off the soap box now.
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Did you read the whole thread?moral of the story is inspect before use but isn't that what most people do with race parts is check them out drool over them for a while then put it on your car. I have them on the front ran all last year on them no problems so I picked up the rears. I don't know of at one company that hasn't sent out a phucked up item, should have stated this first, if it is a large quantity item like wheels. If your have seen their set up a machince welds them and it could have been misaligned that day or someone not checking too many variables to consider. The other thing I never saw in that post was how fast the guy turn onto the return road, that will play a major factor in how much side load was applied to the wheel. Drag wheels are not designed to turn hard! Well I am getting off the soap box now.
got about 6 pages in then had to get off the computer came back and read the cliff notes version. I wasn't saying the guy that had his car screwed up did anything wrong just saying he should have looked at the wheels before putting them on his car cause if the welds were so bad you would be able to see it
well, if it's on the information highway, then it must be true.....
race car forum pundits are seldom, if ever, wrong. just look at motown....
i can post links to bad weld wheels, american racing, bogart, monoquoe. and on, the problem is that guy is a retard expecting his entire car to be repaired, if a tire blows on your street car, will goodyear fix the whole car? or even replace the tire? HELL NO.
american racing ships wheels scratched and gouged, and will do nothing about it.
had a bogart wheel FOLD over while being towed on a car trailer. i believe same thing happened to Millen way back when he had his red 86GT.
dont know what they offered dan, but i got the "its a racing part, no warranty" line
pics all over of Prostars coming apart, in pieces at the lug area. weld didnt do shit, kinda weird they dont date stamp the wheels anymore....isnt it?
FACT is champion offered to replace the wheels free of charge, free shipping. OP in that thread declined the offer.......moral of that thread is dont be a dumbass. i asked katie@champion about that. we talked for 45mins. oh and he NEVER sent the wheels back to champion, they offered to pay shipping too. HMMM why would he not ship them back? why did it take WEEKS for him to post pics?? HMMMM SCAM is why.
i bought champion. they are awesome wheels, i have had bogart, monoque, welds and american racing.
ever see the pics of the weld one piece 2.0 alumastars? where the lug area disconnected itself from the rest of the wheel? real nice pics that were posted in the first post. not weeks later......know what weld offered????? nothing.
so if anything that YB post is a DAMN GOOD REASON TO BUY CHAMPION!!!!
Good post. Makes me feel better about Champion. I didn't have time to read the entry on YB but your endorsement means more honestly.
Thanks!
How is it a SCAM when people from the EVENT posted pics and seen it with their owns eyes on what happened?!?!?
Welders and Machinest all over YB said that wheel and the penetration of the weld wasn't enough...
Then Champion says the failure is caused from a "Locker" rear end?!?! Give me a fucking break... ALL RACES CARS HAVE SPOOLS/LIMITED SLIPS... Then they said they tested the other wheel and he exceed the limits on the return road?!?! What the fuck was he doing? He wasn't road racing the car... Everyone said the wasn't going fast at all... Just slow cruising along the turn and that's when it happened...
Poor weld penatration caused that... No questions about it... I'm not any kind of specialist, but I know what a weld that has no penetration looks like... There is not a sign of the base metal being torn out, which is what you see when a weld is penetrated...
well Reiko when the center busts out of your new alumastar don't come on here bitching cause I have seen that happen a whole hell of a lot more than one or two wheels with bad welds. Like I stated earlier if he would have somewhat inspected the wheel then he would have noticed the bad weld. So far Champion has less screwed up wheels reported as being sent out, Have you ever spun a Weld wheel that didn't cost over $400 each. Right out of the box 95% of the Weld wheels are not true, not even close to true!
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