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Originally Posted by Donbona
Yes Eugene sorry to hear about this.
On the flipside.... I have owned a set of 360 forged 20 inch rims for a number of years now... I actually ordered them when Jordan was in the process of going bust. Fortunately Forged Distributing who had bought 360 made good on the order.
What I also found out is that all these forged wheel comapnies use the same manufacturer.
Im hoping this is an isolated incident and not all these wheels are faulty.
Dont be too harsh on these guys. If they were not trying to deal with the issue then flame away. But they are so go a little easier on the guys.
Just my 2 pence  |
Perhaps a lot of wheel companies purchase their blanks and have them machined by the same vendor; however, the vendor programs a CNC machine based on a design file provided by a specific wheel manufacturer. If that wheel manufacturer doesn't properly engineer, draft, and dimension their wheel design then wheel company "A" could have a failure whereas wheel company "B" does not, even though both sets of wheels with the same diameter, width and offset are machined from the same lot of blanks.
If the post that stated the hole patterns do not properly align is a true statement then there is a MAJOR design issue, one that significantly affects the strength and durability of the wheels. Unless they have revised the design to address this issue then there's a very high probability the new replacement wheel will fail as well as any of the other three original wheels. I would not continue to use this wheel design on my own car.