HRE Wheels...Any Wet Driving Problems?
04-12-2006, 07:05 PM
#20
No, all my seat time lately has been in a King Air ....
okay, not really, well, really, I have sat it in a few times, the new avionics are incredible! It's a friends hangar and planes...he is going to take me up soon hopefully.
okay, not really, well, really, I have sat it in a few times, the new avionics are incredible! It's a friends hangar and planes...he is going to take me up soon hopefully.
04-12-2006, 08:59 PM
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Originally Posted by damon@tirerack.com
Can anyone provide pictures of a dropcenter of a wheel that does this? I'd like to see one.
None of the wheels we carry does this.
None of the wheels we carry does this.
Described below are details of my experience with the wheels...and the disappointing response from HRE who don't even have the courtesy to return phone calls. It's quite sickening to say the least...
Driving in medium rain/wet conditions on a highway the car felt unstable. At 70mph the steering started to vibrate so strongly that I had to really work hard to maintain control. At 80mph I almost lost total control. Dang! WTF is going on? I said to myself. As an aside, I have driven in worse rain/wet conditions with OEM wheels, on this very same highway, without ever encountering a similar problem.
Then it hit me...water was being retained in the reverse lip of the wheels! When I tried to brake, it scared the living daylights outta me that the brakes wouldn't bite. Shifted down the gears to slow the car and moved over to the extreme right lane. Had to almost stand on the brakes to bring the car to a halt. And this is with the PCCBs...
Eight hours later drove again on the same road which was now dry. No issues. Bottom line...faulty design of the wheels.
Called HRE folks yesterday asking them what they're gonna do about this...after all they took $6k of my money to sell this POS! And 'am getting the usual run around...
Knowing what I know now, I'm obviously not going to buy another set of HRE's...but other than bitch about it what can I possibly do?
Last edited by BobbyC; 04-12-2006 at 09:29 PM.
04-12-2006, 09:07 PM
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Originally Posted by BobbyC
Then it hit me...water was being retained in the reverse lip of the wheels!
04-12-2006, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by BobbyC
Me too, Dock. Some lessons are learned the hard way
Maybe you can sell your HRE's if you decide to go back to OEM.
04-12-2006, 10:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Dock
I'd been thinking about some new wheels for the Torque Monster...not now though.
Maybe you can sell your HRE's if you decide to go back to OEM.
Maybe you can sell your HRE's if you decide to go back to OEM.
Techart, Champion, Kinesis, even HRE's (just non R's), etc.... The old step lips did not have this problem...
04-16-2006, 10:33 AM
#30
Originally Posted by 996
Not all of them, mine cargraphic dosen't have this problem. Erik@Cargraphic explain at other forums that their wheel have some design to aviod this issue.