I took my Z into the dealer to put all new tires on and came out with 2 bent wheels. They said I hit a pot hole and it dented front and rear wheel on the passenger side. After buyin some new wheels and looking closer it looks like they where bent on the INSIDE part of the wheel. Cant see it if the wheel was on. I think they bent it taking them off, is this possible?? Any recourse\?? What should I do to get my ducks in a row?

 

Nope, you really can't bend a wheel in a shop. You can scuff em up real bad or chip them but not bend them. In order to bend a wheel you would have to hit it with a sledge hammer or hit a big pot hole at 60 mph. Your recourse is to stop hitting pot holes at 60 mph.

 

thats where they dent when you hit pot holes :-/

new factory wheels are about $550 each... Track model wheels are almost tripple that...

Time to look for some aftermarket wheels...

 

+1

 

The dealer has agreed to pay for the bent wheels.

 

Damn they must have really wanted to keep your business to pay for your mistake.

 

The wheels are bent outwards, 2 other shops said that a machine bent the wheels, You can see where a tool started and stopped and the bend. After talkin to some other Z owners their dealer bent theirs too

 

if that is the case they should definatly replace them...

 

how big of a pothole does one have to hit to do a dent on my stock 17inch wheels.

 

I would like to see pictures of this. After mounting and balancing over 500 tires in the past 2 years I can honestly say this makes no sense to me. The arm that guides the tire onto the wheel runs around the outside of the wheel and if there is any pressure on the rim, which there should not be because the machine should not touch the rim, it would be an inward pressure, and I dont see it bending the wheel, but it can "curb" it up pretty bad.


The only thing I can think of it they were taking them off without a machine, by hand with prybars or something. But who would do that?

 

a very very big pot hole and the tire would probably blow first...

 

Tell the dealer, they bent your turbos too... so they can "replace" those.

 

That's some funny s**t!

 

Check out this link to my webpage for pictures, and let me know what you think

http://community.webshots.com/album/110281132OkSnAu/3

Look at the tool marks

I take my hat off to the Dealership to owning up to it.