19" HSV senator signature rims

[boogs86]

hey

just a quick question.
is $1600 a good price for 19" HSV senator signature copies?
the rims and tyres are brand new

[Cobez]

With tyres. Meh It's an average price.


I went to Wheel King and got genuine sigs for $2000 on special. I got rid of my old fakies. Someone bought them knowing full well what can happen to them, yet he still wanted them, so i sold them. I'd rather pay the extra and get genuines. Have you seen what can happen to the copies?? I didn't know so i sold mine, and the bloke who bought them saw the thread on the SC forum and posted in it, and he still wanted them. Save an extra few hundred and get genuines.



**edit** sorry i just noticed that's a price WITH tyres **edit**

[Troy711]

i am guessing copies do the good olde tempe tyres trick..? they snap spokes?

[Cobez]

According to a thread on SC, but if you look closely at the pics in that thread in the "freestyle" section, it seems whoever owned the snapped face sigs in question, hit a gutter or something as there is a dint in the rim, but the whole face of the wheel (spokes) have snapped CLEAN away from the rest of the wheel. Cheap overseas job.

They can be legally sold too i hear, because they are made overseas, they don't have to be screened or anything like that when they are shipped over, as opposed to wheels made in Aus. But i sold my fakies to a bloke who still wanted to buy them after he knew what can happen to them, and used some left over money and the money for the fakies and got myself some genuine ROH sigs from Wheel King. They come with a warranty etc etc. Plus if ONE of my sigs gets damaged beyond repair, i can take my warranty and receipt into Wheel King and purchase one single sig for a few hundred, which i think is a good deal too.

[Cobez]

Photo courtesy of CHEETR (notice the 2 dints in each wheel? Looks like those 2 wheels were the on the front of the car, and have bounced off a gutter or something, but that might not be 100% true, it's a possible scenario CHEETR would know for sure as these rims belonged to a mate of his, and the one with the face still on it, has split clean all the way around the edge):

[Troy711]

bahahah is it wrong if i find that funny? i mean, i feel sorry for whoever lost their money and (possibly) damaged their car... but i got a laugh out of it

BTW, i dont read SC... or any other commodore forum

[Cousin Slow Poke]

Yeah - that pic is proof enough for ANYONE that copies and cheap wheels should be avoided at all costs.

If you can't afford decent stuff, DON'T BUY IT!

[Troy711]

i bought some tempe wheels once before.. one of em was fugged (pourus) and they didnt even know wtf i was talking about

now ill only buy brand names or factory rims

[Cobez]

Originally Posted by Troy711

and (possibly) damaged their car...

Pity it caused alot of damage to a VU SS ute.

[Troy711]

thats not funny then... as i said, i feel sorry for them. but sheeeet man, buy cheap crap expect problems.

[Cobez]

Yup, that's why CHEETR posted it up, just to give people the heads up. Respect!

[Grennan]

I rekon if they were both on the front hes hit a speed bump pretty hard. Dont know why he wouldve run up a gutter with the 2 front wheels.

But yes, they do seem extremely cheap.

[Cobez]

Nah, looks like he BOUNCED off a gutter. Looks like, but i can't be sure. As i said, CHEETR knows what happened. But yeah, it doesn't look too good ey? The back of those fake sigs, and the backs of genuine sigs look a little different.