scredlex

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the pics pretty much say everything.
Before:


After (cell phone pics):




Heres the deal: I left my car at home (go to college up in santa barbara); so my sis and mom go run to best buy and other places today and out of no where the wheel blows around the plaza blvd exit on the 805s. theyre both okay which is the good thing (just swirved but got to a safe place by the exit) .when they called me i thought the tire blew out but when i got the pics i was like "WTH!!" is this a factory defect?? should i report it to Stern? Someone seriously could of gotten hurt.

TTSC3

DAMN! That's a new one for me! I thought I'd seen just about everything, but that's just crazy! What kind of wheels are those and how long have you had them? Was it a rear wheel? I would definitely tell someone about this. There's no way that should've happened under any circumstances.

SC34M3

Rotas i'm guessing here...ive seen this before but on the track.

scredlex

iTrader: (4)

theyre Stern (dont know the model) 18x9.5 and 18x8.5.. the passenger rear blew

Luxor

iTrader: (15)

WOW this has happened to my friend's civic long time ago although he had some multi-spoke Rota wheels. This is the downside to lightweight cast aluminum wheels. It defidently looks like a defective wheel.

$C300

iTrader: (1)

Did they hit a big pothole or anything?, It dose look like a Man. Defect, i know a guy they have his HRE's crack after a week his was a man. defect.

powrserj

It doesnt look like they really hit something cause the rest of the rim and tire look perfect. Like the Spokes were defective and just broke cause it looks odd how it broke it was pretty clean.

BLovesc

Damn ****ty quality dude go get your money back and complain to the company. Thats nuts it did that on the street

soarinhigh

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You should definitely get ahold of the folks at stern so they can take care of you. That could have been a much MUCH worse scenario.

Kohinoor

iTrader: (22)

contact stern and get compensated.

this is another reason not to buy knockoffs btw. ive seen a lot of rims end up this way and cars with ridiculous damage because of it.

scredlex

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yeah i sent them an email today. there was no prior signs that this would happen. i didnt hit anything with them, drifted them, or even driven on them at ridiculous speeds. this car was my daily driver to school.

got_trd

wow, thats crazy... im curious to see if Stern will do anything about this.. i hope so...

Photon440

iTrader: (3)

I'm wondering how that tire is going to be unmounted from the broken rim, assuming it's worth saving.

-=Photon440=-

TTSC3

It won't make a difference. The clamps on the tire machine grab onto the inner portion of the wheel when you hit the pedal. It will come off the wheel the same as it normally does.

AME_VIP

iTrader: (2)

wow poor quality wheels! I'm glad no one was hurt.

Stern wheels = ADR = Golden Apple Corp...