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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 08:06 AM
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i need to vent and this is the place. first let me say THERE WILL BE NO PICS it pained me enough to look at it the first time. if you dont want to read the long post cliff notes will be posted directly after. So i get a great deal on a second hand set of rj 1pc devotion (the second most pimp wheels to the 3 pc) from our good freind nueronbob. i had just got some other mods put in was just waiting for the weather to be nice on a day off for a full photoshoot. my wife comes home and asks me to check the tire preassure im like i just checked them last week when we put them on but i go out to check. starting with the front driver and omgwtf my rim was bent like someone tried to take the wheel off by prying at it with a crowbar between the rim and tire. so im pretty dissapointed so i think that it is best not to ride on a messed up rim so i dont mess up my alignment. (shops over here suck so i only take it to someone if neccicary) i decide to just put the stock ones back on so i get done with the driver side and im working on the passeger side and i must be a complete retard to think that the jack that they give you with the car should be sufficant to change tires on the car it came with. my car just sank didnt hit hard but just sank. i was on a flat surface and using the perscribed jack points. now im like omgomgomgwtfgd. i get they guy next door and has has a full size jack but it was too big then he got a smaller one we had to take the wheels of just to get it in ther on a good point and everything looked fine. next morning my wife sends me out to the car to get her bag out the passenger seat and the passenger floor got pushed up from the jack it sat on car is getting fixed now and wont cost as much as i thought i just hope they dont mess it up or drive all my gas out. for all of you who are think about resale value i wont ever sell my car. forgot to mention the rim that got bent was redone before i got it and it think it was weakned
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 08:08 AM
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new rim bent
car jack breaks
warped passenger floor
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 04:13 PM
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Noooooooooooo.......

That is an incredible run of bad luck. It is worrisome that the jack would do that kind of damage to the floor of the passenger compartment. It is even worse luck that one of the rims I sent is already bent again. Are the roads that bad in Italy?
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 04:34 PM
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Hey off topic but where in Sicily are you from? My parents were born and raised in Palermo. Love it over there!
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 05:57 PM
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wow, how did the passenger floor warp, isn't it supposed to take the weight of the car when it is jacked?
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Old Dec 13, 2006 | 08:21 PM
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Originally Posted by RJANACONDA
new rim bent
car jack breaks
warped passenger floor
LOL Cliff Notes
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 12:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MaGiC9669
Hey off topic but where in Sicily are you from? My parents were born and raised in Palermo. Love it over there!
not from itally im from atlanta ga im in the military stationed over here we are near cataina
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 12:22 AM
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wow, how did the passenger floor warp, isn't it supposed to take the weight of the car when it is jacked?
i think when the jack broke (the big bolt bent ant damn near 45 degrees) it shifted away from the jack point and lay on its side and the weight of car on the floor (which is surprisingly thin)
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Old Dec 14, 2006 | 12:31 AM
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Originally Posted by neuronbob
Noooooooooooo.......

That is an incredible run of bad luck. It is worrisome that the jack would do that kind of damage to the floor of the passenger compartment. It is even worse luck that one of the rims I sent is already bent again. Are the roads that bad in Italy?
they use ground lava rock from mt etna for asphault it pothole easy when it rains bad (winter=rain) but normaly they are not deep maybe 1/4 - 1/2 but then thats looking at the ground from the cabin but yeah i was surprised as well that the jack would even break only being use 3 times not even 3 more like 2.5
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