So I am driving along the road and I hear a very odd grinding noise. I pulled over and 2 of my spokes on my Kineses F110 wheel are cracked all the way through the spokes! I was amazed as I thought these were bullet proof strong wheels! So I have the car flat bedded away to a near by shop. The tire guy comes back to me and says that they have been welded up recently! I just bought these a month ago from a forum member online that told me they were "just re-painted because of some minor scratches." I am pretty pissed at this point for not only being f*cked over for buying welded up wheels but this could have killed myself or others on the road!!! Imagine if I was driving the car hard and it busted completely!

You can see the welds on the back side were the cracks are if you look closely. Come to find out these wheels were bought from a major Porsche wheel company online, welded up, painted over, and re-sold!





You can see the spokes have been welded up and painted over:





Let me know what you guys think....

 

hopefully you paid by credit card...

 

wow! were all the spokes welded? I see a few deviations in some of the other pokes as well (namely the the one that extends to the top-right of the picture)

 

They ought to give you a full refund, thats is complete BS!!!!

 

There are people advertising locally (appears to be a franchise) that claim "we can fix any alloy wheel".... Not surprised to see this kind of result.

Hopefully the RL'er that sold them will at least refund the money. Are any of the other wheels visibly welded?

 

WOW, just WOW... takes a special kind of person to knowingly sell those after that kind of repair!

Also takes special kind of handy work to weld a forged piece.. guess they didn't do it very well...

those sure are some deep scratches! scratched clean through!

 

Man that is cheezy. I'm surprised you didn't notice though. Buying used wheels is pretty shaky proposition. I've been lucky a couple of times and not so lucky once. I bought a set of BMW wheels on Ebay a few years ago they were cheap. Anyway I checked them right away with a machinist dial for out of round and run-out. They were all bent - of course. Seller then wanted me to claim damage against UPS. The UPS guy is out to my house almost every week and so we chat and I asked him what he thought. He looked at the boxes (zero packing) and the kind of damage and just laughed. I guess its a pretty common scam....Bruce
Maybe the member will want to return your money.

 

Yea thats just f'ed up on so many levels. You stood a decent chance of having a serious accident, resulting in injury or death.

 

Wow. Pretty amazing. Glad your ok.


Ditch the wheels, and be happy your "alive and wrong" (about it being a good deal). It is way better than being "dead right"

Ok so who needs a set of wheels "lightly used" for cheap?!

 

It's always a risk buying used stuff. I hope you didn't pay a whole lot for them.

 

Wow!!!! I think that's grounds for a serious beat down on the seller.

I've come close to buying some used wheels and stop myself just because of this fear.

I hope you get your money back.

 

Some of the other spokes look weird too.

 

+1...probably ALL were broken and rewelded.

 

uh holy ****

arent those supposed to be billet wheels?

 

Putting someone in danger is outing on the forum worthy. People need to know who the bad sellers are. Was the company a rennlist sponsor?