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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 01:18 PM
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hey guys woke up to the UPS truck driving up...what a great sound.

got my 4 17x9.5 factory reproductions black Z06's and they look amazing...accept one has a slight "bulge" looks like a bug bite...type thing., along with a pretty noticeable "nick" on the outside of the polished lip.

this sucks I wanted to get them mounted and on the car today...guess I have to send it back and wait...

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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 01:43 PM
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That sucks to hear. Are they new wheels? Any pics of the imperfections?
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 01:50 PM
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sounds like UPS has been "tossing" things around again.
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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 02:03 PM
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brand new from tomzwheels.

the box the wheel came in was perfectly fine however one of the other wheels boxes had a dent in it...but that wheel was 100% fine...I swear UPS hates me everything i order gets screwed somehow.

heres the best i could do for pictures.







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Old Jul 10, 2007 | 02:06 PM
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those are pictures of the nick...i'll take more but its hard to capture w/ the polished lip reflecting...and I suck at pictures.

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Originally Posted by Jon5212
sounds like UPS has been "tossing" things around again.
I Used To Work At UPS And I Take That As Disrespect, HAHA. Na Just Playing, Ya Those Rims Would Probly Be In The "Big Stuff" Truck. But Those Types Of Things We Wouldnt Normally Throw Because, Well, They're To Heavy To Throw. Maybe Some Idiot Stacked Two Big Things On Top Of Each Other And On The Truck It Fell...
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Originally Posted by Nimitz87
hey guys woke up to the UPS truck driving up...what a great sound.

got my 4 17x9.5 factory reproductions black Z06's and they look amazing...accept one has a slight "bulge" looks like a bug bite...type thing., along with a pretty noticeable "nick" on the outside of the polished lip.

this sucks I wanted to get them mounted and on the car today...guess I have to send it back and wait...

Chad

I here ya man. When the UPS MULLETT HEAD pull up in front of my house I came out to meet him to be sure he didn't drop a wheel & guess what ? I got two steps out of my front door & "WHAM" I watched in horror as one of the four boxes with my brand new wheels fell out of the back of ******** truck onto the concrete . The driver was real nonchalant about this incident as if he messes up all the time with peoples shipments. Opened box,inspected wheel,could not see any damage other than a slight mark which cleaned up . Later after mounting some very expensive tires on these very expensive wheels I noticed a wobble at about 55 MPH. Yep that wheel was bent. It was a friggin nightmare for the next 6 weeks.Needless to say I will NEVER again use UPS!

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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 01:10 AM
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I here ya man. When the UPS DICK HEAD pull up in front of my house I came out to meet him to be sure he didn't drop a wheel & guess what ? I got two steps out of my front door & "WHAM" I watched in horror as one of the four boxes with my brand new wheels fell out of the back of ******** truck onto the concrete . **** face was real nonchalant about this incident as if he ***** up all the time with peoples shipments. Opened box,inspected wheel,could not see any damage other than a slight mark which cleaned up . Later after mounting some very expensive tires on these very expensive wheels I noticed a wobble at about 55 MPH. Yep that wheel was bent. It was a friggin nightmare for the next 6 weeks.Needless to say I will NEVER again use UPS!
UPS screwed me out of my Texas speed shipment which caused a 4 month delay...no fault of Texas speeds at all. but its just really getting old of how many problems im having with them.

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shipping companies in general suck ***. the attitude of the employees is pure ****, they don't care if they break something. i cant say how many times a package has been "lost" either. it takes forever to get the crap straightened out
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Old Jul 11, 2007 | 02:21 AM
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might wanna double check the packaging and see if theres any physical damage to the boxes. ive had problems before with 2 bent rims and the packaging was perfect on the outside it sucks, you might be able to still use that wheel though.....
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Old Jul 14, 2007 | 10:15 AM
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Hey Chad, we've got the claim filed with UPS, If you need anything else from us, let me know.

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Originally Posted by ReFtheMC
I Used To Work At UPS And I Take That As Disrespect, HAHA. Na Just Playing, Ya Those Rims Would Probly Be In The "Big Stuff" Truck. But Those Types Of Things We Wouldnt Normally Throw Because, Well, They're To Heavy To Throw. Maybe Some Idiot Stacked Two Big Things On Top Of Each Other And On The Truck It Fell...
Do You Always Type Like This? Seems like too much work to me, harder to read too.

Hope you get the wheel situation made right.
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that sucks man. But i have to say UPS is better than any other shipping company
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Old Jul 15, 2007 | 04:42 PM
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i used to work for UPS too, and yeah things get tossed everywhere lol fedex ??? im such a traitor
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