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From: The Beautiful Pacific Northwest
St. Jude Donor '05-'06-'07-'08-'09, '14-'15-'16-'17-'18
Not sure how much you may know about repros, but they are often made as cheaply as possible and as a consequence will not have gone through the same rounds of rigorous testing as do the OEM's and will be of lower quality. They are usually heavier which may have some negative effect on handling. Sure, they may look good, but you do get what you pay for.
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There was an excellent thread on this topic about a month ago. Seek and ye shall find it.
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There was an excellent thread on this topic about a month ago. Seek and ye shall find it.
Last edited by ExRedRacer; Aug 9, 2014 at 02:48 AM.
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You get what you pay for, applies for Corvette wheels also. Repo wheels have had a ton of issues around here and they won't stand the test of time. Spend the extra scheckles and buy quality, you'll thank yourself down the road.
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Here is a pic of my ZR1 repo wheel after I hit a 4X4 doing 70MPH. I will not say that these are the BEST wheels ever made, but I drive my Vet all over and never had a problem with them. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...k-of-wood.html
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Here is a pic of my ZR1 repo wheel after I hit a 4X4 doing 70MPH. I will not say that these are the BEST wheels ever made, but I drive my Vet all over and never had a problem with them. http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...k-of-wood.html
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Didn't know they make the OEM Z06 wheels for the narrow body with the correct factory offset, that's why i said replica, I don't want my wheels to stick out. I'm running the stock size firestone wide oval rft. that I'll be remounting. So enlighten me.
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Your right, they don't.
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Back in my C5 days I had the OEM thin spokes...but just had to have a chrome thinspoke rather than the "polished" OEM wheel...I went "repro". Wheels were much heavier and the number of wheel weights they had to add to balance them was ridiculous.....OTOH I recently went OEM chrome to an OEM black chrome wheel on my Grand Sport.....no difference in weight or wheel weights.
Last edited by SSWEET; Aug 26, 2014 at 11:55 AM.