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Paint peeled off on its own
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Paint flaked off on its own
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Paint looks like it was scrapped off by something
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Paint looks like it blistered
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Paint looks like it was damaged in a car wash
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Paint looks fine to me....
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Still scratching head.....
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Why have I read all the options thus far?
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Who cares, what kinda wheel is that?
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Wheel mystery, what is your guess?????

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Old 02-21-2017, 05:42 PM
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Smile Wheel mystery, what is your guess?????

So there is no right or wrong answer but your input would be appreciated.

Here is a photo we were submitted, and were asked "how do you think this got here?"......

Please note the scrape marks on the wheel.....


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A jealous midget with a pocket knife?
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The duckhead from a tire mounting machine?
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Aliens?

Why, ya got some customer complaining that the paint peeled?
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Rail on a car wash tunnel.
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Originally Posted by stan23
The duckhead from a tire mounting machine?
Originally Posted by LexVan
Rail on a car wash tunnel.
these are tough to compete with. Trying to think, how'd you get a tire above the tire, but so close to the tire.. uhh
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Originally Posted by TonyTwoBags
these are tough to compete with. Trying to think, how'd you get a tire above the tire, but so close to the tire.. uhh

Too many "tires".
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Car wash would be my guess.
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Originally Posted by m3driver
A jealous midget with a pocket knife?
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Originally Posted by Cuda911
Aliens?

Why, ya got some customer complaining that the paint peeled?
Well.... the claim is that the car is garaged and only parked in the street about a foot away from the curb. The claim is that the paint is blistering...
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Originally Posted by Wheel Dynamics
Well.... the claim is that the car is garaged and only parked in the street about a foot away from the curb. The claim is that the paint is blistering...
Tell him he's a moron, then tell him the price of a new wheel
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Originally Posted by LexVan
Rail on a car wash tunnel.
This is the first thing we guessed, being in the wheel refinishing business for over 16-years this was the best guess we came up with. Outside of this our next guess if not this would be a random shopping cart or cart from somewhere like Home Depot but the car-wash in our experience was the most common with this sort damage.

Just looking at some outside input that makes sense...
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Originally Posted by 808Bill
Car wash would be my guess.
I'm with you Bill....

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Originally Posted by m3driver
Tell him he's a moron, then tell him the price of a new wheel
Actually we offered to refinish the wheel for him again (at the reduced rate we offered the first time around) we also will perform all tire services free of charge.

Retail would be $150 refinishing + $30 tire service (dismount, remount, road-force balance and inflate with nitrogen. So $180 retail.

We offered $100 total to redo just to help out... customer still expressed disappointment...

I think this was very fair on our part.


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