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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #15 on: June 04, 2014, 05:10:00 pm »
OEM alloys are manufactured to a proven design, to set standards, and under strict quality control.

Reps are made simply to look like the wheels they're a copy of. Where you buy your reps from has little bearing on how well they're made.


....lol except the mk7 golf R wheels, have u seen the pictures of the one that just disintegrated??


But I do agree with you. I wouldn't buy snidey reps. A lad at work as some and tbf they do look spot on and they were bought from a local shop with a good rep (they also sell genuine wheels and do loads of tuning etc) so I think they'll be good quality reps.
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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #16 on: June 04, 2014, 05:55:11 pm »
You mean the one reported incident of a Golf R wheel failing which was most likely down to him tramping a kerb?  :wink:
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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #17 on: June 04, 2014, 06:07:30 pm »
You mean the one reported incident of a Golf R wheel failing which was most likely down to him tramping a kerb?  :wink:

I very much doubt it was a kerb  :booty:

And yes, I know, 1 report doesn't make them all sh*t.
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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #20 on: June 04, 2014, 07:08:05 pm »
You mean the one reported incident of a Golf R wheel failing which was most likely down to him tramping a kerb?  :wink:

Exactly, seeing a image or a little read of that f*cked rim will be only half the story I'm pretty sure.

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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #21 on: June 04, 2014, 07:47:06 pm »
You mean the one reported incident of a Golf R wheel failing which was most likely down to him tramping a kerb?  :wink:

Exactly, seeing a image or a little read of that f*cked rim will be only half the story I'm pretty sure.


I think if he had been driving like a dick he would have done a lot more damage to the car  :stupid:
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Re: Alloys from Hong Kong
« Reply #22 on: June 04, 2014, 07:57:22 pm »
If it was a kerb, then he hit it with a wheel, not the whole car. That's probably why the rest of the car is relatively undamaged. Didn't need to be driving like a disk, just hit something which damaged the wheel.
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« Reply #23 on: June 05, 2014, 12:36:14 pm »

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