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It's cause a re-engineering of a wheel is no simple matter. This is assuming they even engineer the wheels at all. By what we've heard and seen so far, I don't believe they do. And no one at ADV has ever confirmed any engineering whatsoever on any of their wheels.
Oh, you want a wheel that we sell "x" pounds lighter? Sure, we'll just re-engineer it for you. LOL! |
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04-20-2012, 11:43 AM | #486 |
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At this point, this thread is a joke. Both issues were resolved in ways that ADV.1 went above and beyond my expectations and made things right. What more do you guys want. This has become a witch hunt IMO.
Also, they probably engineer their wheels to a generic very high load rating to make sure no cracks or wheel failures occur because they know that people like you guys would rip them apart if something happened like what happened in that Vossenn thread. That wheel can easily be engineered to be much lighter than 34lbs.
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But even if I didn't know as much about the company, I would still have the strong opinion that this whole thread was blown out of proportion and people are slandering ADV.1 just because.
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It's great that they are taking care of this. That's wonderful customer service, no doubt about it.
It is a bit concerning to me that they are going to simply remove something like ~8 pounds from these wheels. If it is so easy and there's no question of safety, why aren't all of they're wheels designed this way?
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No doubt. Vossen must have some good pull here.
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In contrast when there was the group buy for the RAC RG63 wheels here on the forum RAC got the final weights of the wheels estimated within 1/2 pound or so. IIRC even the 1/2 pound was known but added in through a minor design change to make the wheel meet a slightly more aggressive vehicle weight specification. The utter lack of real engineering by these guys is only reinforced by this anecdote. Buyers beware IMHO.
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exactly. all politics here (you would hope the moderators would try to make this an unbiased site, but I guess not). you would think that since the vossen issue was actually something MAJOR and had directly to do with the company's design, that the thread would be 100 pages, but it was deleted after no more than 1 page was filled with comments.
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I would just add that its one thing when a thread goes away regarding tunes, exhausts, blowers etc....but these are wheels!!! Without a doubt one of the most critical safety components on a car...and we as forum have a right to unbiased AND uncensored information when wheels fail..completely unacceptable..
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Not that it has to do with the original post but the vossen picture clearly showed where the person had hit a curb the tire had marks on it. Wheels are not meant to hit curbs at speed.
Swamp I agree with what you are saying about the weight and the software. but I guess when you market lightweight as an additional cost than you have to show it could be heavier.. That way it's more than just perceived value. Once again customers happy so that's what matters. Last edited by db71; 04-20-2012 at 05:08 PM.. |
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It's funny that they treat customers so differently before and after a thread is made on the forum. So if u want some real customer service, make sure post them online.
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And got to keep the wheels everyone's a sucker for free.
Next up on eBay for the low low price of 4995 some used Porsche cayenne wheels location Taiwan. The one downside to how these issues were handled is it sets a precedent now your gonna see every person with every little bitch posting a thread somewhere. |
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Cliff note.... A large sponsor has been kicked on at least one major car forum. Story follows for those that might be interested but thats the gist of it.
Over on corvetteforum when the dealers started taking per-orders for the soon to be coming Z06 they (for the most part) took them at MSRP. Seems crappy to pay MSRP right but keep in mind that the Z hit at 65k that first year and demand was initially very high. All the forum dealers took deposits and agreed to deliver the cars in the order the per-orders were made as they received the allocation but one of them didn't. What they did was sell the pre-ordered cars they received to any buyer that called or showed up on the showroom floor who agreed to pay more than MSRP for one rather than sending them off to the folks that per-ordered them. The car was hot enough that this amounted to most of the cars they got. As it went down on the forum there was first wonderment that everyone was getting their cars, one by one, but sthey were coming. Except for those at the dealership in question. Their answer was that they had pre orders from non forum people as well and they were in fact delivering them to everyone in the order that deposits were made. At first posts complaining about it were disappeared. Wasn't long before one of the guys with a single digit pre-order number started a thread asking only that people post their place in line so they could try and sort out what was going on, but no bitching about the dealer so as to keep the thread within forum guidelines. At this point things were starting to look hinky to anybody and the admin allowed the thread to stay and a list began to fill out. Now like everyone else regardless of the dealership they opted for they were told what their overall place in line was at that dealership when they made their deposit and it turned out the vast majority of the first fifty cars at this one were accounted for by forum members almost none of who had their cars. Things heated up then, locals were wandering by and counting the cars daily and it wasn't long before it was well proven. As this went along the issue of running a forum where a sponsor was more than just being deceptive but out and out lying and well proven to be doing so became a rather well covered discussion. I don't recall action being immediate but it was not too far down the road an announcement was made and they were removed as a forum sponsor. |
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How do you guys know that Vossen had anything removed? Maybe they reached an agreement with the poster to remove the post?
Just for the record. I have no idea what you are talking about, but I'm just saying... |
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The threads were started by outside people and not someone who had bought wheels from them.
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