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Old 09-20-2008, 11:07 AM
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My car just turned 20,000 miles and my factory Goodyear Supercars have about had it. My car came with the polished 5 spokes but have thought about getting chrome. I am curious if anyone have purchased the chrome Replica Alloy wheels available from Discounttire? I am also thinking about staying away from runflats and going with a smoother riding, more quiet non-runflat tire. How is the quality of these replicas? Does anyone have pictures?
Reason I ask is I have had nothing but bad experience buying chrome replicas from the forum vendors (I wont mention any names here), but they have either had a very poor chrome job (eventually peeling and pitting), wheels being out of round and not balancing correctly. Just an all around hassle.

Any input is appreciated.

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Originally Posted by JTS97Z28
My car just turned 20,000 miles and my factory Goodyear Supercars have about had it. My car came with the polished 5 spokes but have thought about getting chrome. I am curious if anyone have purchased the chrome Replica Alloy wheels available from Discounttire? I am also thinking about staying away from runflats and going with a smoother riding, more quiet non-runflat tire. How is the quality of these replicas? Does anyone have pictures?
Reason I ask is I have had nothing but bad experience buying chrome replicas from the forum vendors (I wont mention any names here), but they have either had a very poor chrome job (eventually peeling and pitting), wheels being out of round and not balancing correctly. Just an all around hassle.

Any input is appreciated.

Thanks,
James
Discount Tire sells Crays [Manta], they cost a litle more, I like what I recieved
Old 09-20-2008, 01:12 PM
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Discount Tire sells Crays [Manta], they cost a litle more, I like what I recieved
Yeah I saw that on the site. Just curious though if anyone has tried discounts replica wheels (replica alloy). I figure the good thing about them is there stores are everywhere so warranty work or any issues can easily be solved where as all the forum vendors have to be shipped and is a PITA.

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I have not tried them.

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