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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 03:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Eddie & the Cruisers
Thanks for the a$$ chewing.
Checking the old and uglier removed wheels now in the boxes my new wheels came in (ZR1 AFS 9.5" and 11"), here is what the old ones reveal on their back sides.

I will go stand in the corner now.
Oh, wait, before you go.

Why is it hard to believe that someone swapped in "uglier" wheels when you traded out super safe GM factory wheels and swapped in Weak wheels with little or no safety testing.

There are plenty of guys RACING on GM Factory A molds etc.
Ain't nobody racing on AFS wheels.

You may have been a little quick on the trigger but I think we are all mostly human here.

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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 08:55 AM
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If I can speak, the wheels are definitely painted and are not machined, must not be the OEM wheels this car came with. Still can't believe someone would change to an older and uglier wheel and I had no reason not to believe they weren't '94 OEM since everything else on the car is '94 OEM.
My guess would be that at some point in time the previous owner had upgraded the wheels and sold the original sawblades. When they got ready to sell it they sold the new wheels and replaced them with the older sawblades. You could buy them fairly cheap.

An alternative is that if they traded the car in that someone at the dealership got a free wheel upgrade.

The gray wheels are not attractive. That's why I went to chrome very quickly after getting the car.

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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 03:30 PM
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PLEASE let this thread Die!
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Old Aug 31, 2008 | 06:42 PM
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Originally Posted by DREGSZ
I think we are all mostly human here.
That's a huge assumption
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Old Sep 1, 2008 | 11:33 AM
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Originally Posted by DREGSZ
PLEASE let this thread Die!
It's your thread...

Hey Eddie and the Cruisers...No A$$ chewing here...just trying to help people keep things freindly...Sometimes it's not what we say but how we sat it...
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