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fuct

threads like this keep me happy with my factory wheels.

daisuke149

as an FYI.. cus everyone seems to be taking this out of proportion...

think about how many of these aftermarket wheels have failed.. compared to how many havnt.

Put that into perspective of how often your new car breaks down.. or anything else you own or have.

The failure rate is extremely low.. granted a wheel breaking is more serious than your windshield wiper motor.

Point is.. not everything is gonna be 100% and no company is going to always produce a perfect product. What people should be concentrating on is how they handled it.. which is absurd.

(P.S we have seen oem wheel on the Z fail too..)

98intrigue

I agree. I've heard nothing but great things about COR up until now. What I don't like is how they promoted their wheels for "the track or the street", but all of a sudden backpedal and even change verbiage on their website because of this incident. All this bad publicity is not worth a $1200 replacement wheel.

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Waiz

Another reason why I stick to RAYS, SSR or Enkei

So much misinformation everywhere about all of these other brands

daisuke149

FYI. ive seen ENkei fail and rays too.

as stated. its gonna happen to every company out there. No product line or person or anything is ever perfect. What you should be looking at is how they handle the situation after it happens.

bullitt5897

Turns out there is more to the story... Details are parsed out over several forums...

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Ubetit

I'm not finding these details... link?

The more I read about all these wheels brands, the more it all points back to just a few companies making them or supplying the key parts.

A few years ago I had a new furnace and humidifier installed in my house. A friend was doing the install as he worked for a company that allowed him 2 "friends and family" installs a year at cost plus 5%. My friend gets ready to install the humidifier and hands me a little bag that was inside. He said to pick which manufacturers name plate I wanted. I recall there were at least 6 name pates by some well known brands.

dastaco

Thanks for getting the word out on this, I think its safe to say I'll be avoiding these companies like the plague.

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Unique_Z

I'm with Dai, this is true as manufacturers doesn't always make a perfect wheels and such, even my friend's brand new Z broken down. it's running too rich from the factory. Same goes to wheels, i've seen the oem wheels fail too.

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bullitt5897

Just google search the title of the original thread.

From what I gathered online the company was working to make things right from the failure up until the customer brought their lawyer involved. Once that happened all the game changed and now COR was doing what was best for them. Having said that the customer would have most likely had everything paid for by now if the lawyer wasn't brought in from the beginning. If the company completely refused to do anything about it then yeah the lawyer would have been the right move.

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Ubetit

I guess I gather differently than you do. The customer would not have had everything paid for by now. I read, "Prior to the involvement of legal counsel, the client was offered a full refund, regardless of any specific warranty considerations." How does that fix the damage to his car?

Red__Zed

Do you expect a component manufacturer to sign up for what would essentially amount to unlimited liability?

Ubetit

It would be nice but of course it's not going to happen. That's when the lawyers come in.

dastaco

Bringing in a lawyer is the right thing to do, as you said COR is doing what's best for themselves in the short term which is almost always the worst course of action. I view this now as COR admitting to making inferior products and being more than willing to throw customers under the bus. Pretty much cements my opinion that if you do business with COR or any company COR produces for you are rolling the dice.

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cheshirecat

Absolutely. Regardless of who is responsible for what, this is a lot of money and the entire deal is best handled by lawyers on both sides.

IMO, once the website started getting edited, it became a completely different matter from "replace the wheel/fix the damage".