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      04-10-2012, 09:45 AM   #1
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Hit a pothole a few days ago....

I was driving along a great stretch of repaved 'smooth as butter' road and was enjoying it too much that I didn't have enough time to stop where the road workers had decided to stop paving and had left a HUGE gap in the damn road! I wasn't going very fast but that pot hole was just too big and BAM!!!

Well.... I kept driving up I felt the car was different after that. I drove back to the car shop and turns out both the left front and back wheels got slightly messed up and were slightly wobbly on the wheel machine.... so I had to have them straightened out again. Took 50 bucks each tire but somehow they got it back to brandnew condition....

Potholes really suck.

I can't make up my mind if it's because Kelleners Hamburg rims are too 'soft' or what..... I never had ANY problems with my M166 (M5) rims on my E60 and I drove the hell out of them for 2-3 years!



Anyways, I'm back to normal. The car drives smooth just like it's supposed to....


PS: The shop had just finished outfitting an F11 with a complete Kelleners upgrade. I'll post it up in the forum with pics.

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      04-11-2012, 01:52 PM   #2
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Gosh, only $50 each? Nice price that only happens in Taiwan.
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      04-12-2012, 01:30 AM   #3
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Back driving the car. The rims were straightened out to just like they were new! I'm sure it'll be a few months before I hit another hidden pothole and end up there.... again!

Roads are really bad here.....
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