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Not physically but morally. Off the ROTA bandwagon and all aboard the COR wagon!

This dude over at NAGTROC/GTR Life had a set of wheels explode on him and the company blamed him. Now with a response like that from the company, you would think twice about ROTAs (in a good way) as I haven't heard any such low stories about them.

Was reading this article that was linked over at JDMST: http://jalopnik.com/...dium=socialflow

Original Thread: http://www.gtrlife.com/forums/index.php?/topic/76929-new-cor-4-piece-wheels-warning/

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bloody hell...

Guy is lucky to be alive...

Personally, I think COR should have just paid for all the damages...

This is going to cost them so much more now, especially in terms of sales.

I mean who is going to buy a set of COR wheels after seeing that?? No one!

The spokes are way to thin for what i'd imagine is a cast wheel, it would be borderline even for a forged wheel. You can see it broke right after the radii on the wheel centre which is where it sees the most stress and where it should be designed stronger.

Wouldn't even use these wheels if they were given to me.

Edited by Dobz

wow, cor has let this one get out of control. social media is a powerful little nugget that should not be kicked.

cor most likely thought that the wheel breaking off was going to be bad for business so they argue the point with owner, far enough, but changing the wording on the warranty to suit the outcome that cor would desire, definitely stinks.

The fall out from it all will leave a stale taste in peoples mouths and they'll talk with there wallets

indeed, this will definitely affect all their sales.

as someone who is only getting into cars, i can now cross off a brand of rims from any prospective list. that's one lost prospective customer right here.

and thanks for alerting me to this!

hmmmmm...

Poor COR... I think they will realize too... Much easier to give the poor bloke a brand new set of wheels than have all this media posted about them...

It's obvious which will cost them more in the long run.

I can't believe they tried to push the whole track v's street caveat. What a bunch of nobbers, not only does it not make sense from a design point of view, why would you brush aside the considerable slice of the market who wants to track their car at some point.

It's the kind of thing Today Tonight would try to do.

Also, the thing I find funny, if the wheel had exploded on the street and say, caused a fatality, there would be a huge stink made about it, people would probably end up in gaol, and certainly there would be million dollar compensation claims, but since it happens at the track, meh, no one cares, let the hoons kill themselves they say.

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