Bent Wheel
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From: Etobicoke (Toronto) Ontario
Bent Wheel
Man, the city streets here are really getting bad in their own special way. Sunken manhole covers. Usually, I can avoid them, but I guess I wasn’t watching closely enough and hit a real axle breaker. I was on my way to a club tour, and as soon as I got up to highway speeds, I could feel a vibration through the steering wheel that wasn’t there before. I took the vette into a wheel shop that’s in the neighborhood this morning and sure enough the LF front wheel was out of round and wobbling on its axis. The deformation was quite visible when they were spinning it on their equipment. I figured the wheel was done for, but they said, no, we’ve seen worse and we’ll have no problem straightening it out. And they did. Road force balanced it and I ran it up afterwards on the highway. Like it never happened. So a big thanks to Five Star Rim Repair. 👍
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From: Orange County, CA
You should contact the politicians and administrators in your area about their incompetence and mismanagement of the tax money earmarked for road repair. I don't know how it is where you live, but here in California, our politicians regularly divert funds intended for road repairs into other less worthy projects. The sloth-like pace of repair crews add to our misery. I hate to hear stories like yours where the innocent citizenry suffers when they shouldn't. Politicians and bureaucrats need to understand the very real harm they cause by their neglect The fact that it affected a Corvette makes the abdication of their duties especially egregious.
Also, check into filing a claim for reimbursement by the department responsible for the roads for the repairs in your area. I think filing claims for car repairs caused by poor road upkeep are typically readily paid.
Glad to hear you got a good repair done to your wheel. Wheels are not cheap, and the so-called C6 OEM-style wheels I've seen are NOT the same construction or quality as the OEM wheels.
Also, check into filing a claim for reimbursement by the department responsible for the roads for the repairs in your area. I think filing claims for car repairs caused by poor road upkeep are typically readily paid.
Glad to hear you got a good repair done to your wheel. Wheels are not cheap, and the so-called C6 OEM-style wheels I've seen are NOT the same construction or quality as the OEM wheels.
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From: Etobicoke (Toronto) Ontario
^^^^^While I don’t disagree, I’m just too pragmatic to go through the hoops of literally fighting city hall. In the grand scheme of things what I paid to get the wheel fixed was chump change. I live in a big, old city, with aging infrastructure where there’s an annual cycle of freeze and thaw that makes it that much worse. Nobody wants to pay taxes, there’s not enough revenue to fix everything, no politician ever got elected on a platform to raise taxes, and there’s no doubt that inefficiency, graft, corruption, and downright theft divert a sizeable chunk of those tax dollars. Just like everywhere else. It’s the perfect storm. And BTW, I do have the OEM GS wheels that the car shipped with.
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The "Gumby" wheels and Hertz ZHZ wheels were. The rest I don't believe were.
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Ahhh... this takes me back 17 years. Brand new 07 with 2000 miles. Had to demonstrate my new car's power to a chick. Ended up sliding across a wet parking lot into a curb.
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From: Minneapolis Mn
I've had 2 rims repaired in the past due to accidents (Not something I caused). In both cases the wheel shop was able to straighten and refinish the rims so you couldn't tell they had been damaged. As was said, a good rim shop is well worth knowing and paying if the need arises.