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Old 08-12-2009, 03:16 PM
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I realize in track conditions this happens to many wheels, but for the money you're paying for a "forged" stronger wheel, I don't want to be one of these guys at the track.





I cracked a nice set of 'forged' wheels from a different company on my previous car. The company was D-forged. Perhaps someone can correct me, but I've been told by numerous people that the same barrels, faces and parts are supplied out of china these days. Hence so many of the companies having the exact same or similar designs?

Who knows... iForged has a much worse rep than HRE, thats for sure.
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:35 PM
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Never heard of HRE issues and I know of countless Porsches that run them without issue, and drive them pretty damn hard on 19s and 20s. Hell, I hit a curb recently with mine and they held up pretty damn good!
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:41 PM
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This is exactly why I bought RACING wheels for the track. Thicker hats, more spokes, step lip, etc...
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Old 08-12-2009, 03:47 PM
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I just talked to a buddy that bought IForged wheels and he was promised 3 to 4 weeks max... It took 13
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I just talked to a buddy that bought IForged wheels and he was promised 3 to 4 weeks max... It took 13
ouch. It amazes me people want a set of wheels that bad. I would have called my credit card company at the 2 month mark
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Old 08-12-2009, 07:14 PM
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Had a set for a ranger rover sport that needed to rebuilt twice due to them sheering the bolts holding the wheel together. Finally gave up on the set of wheels and sold them. I felt bad because I recommended the HRE wheels to a friend. Bad idea.

Had a few friends in the Mopar LX community that had delivery issues, build quality issues, and also structural issues.

iForged is well known on just about any forum for having many issues. But HRE seems to have their number as well. My experience with the ranger rover wheels was a joke.

There were also a number of issues with the wheels being banned by Viper racing leagues and maybe a few others. I stopped keeping track.
http://www.nobleforums.com/showthread.php?t=346

http://forums.rennlist.com/rennforum...ng-banned.html

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/s...&postid=322919

I've seen first hand how those wheels hold up under street conditions. Was my experience a rare one? Apparently not.

Beautiful wheels, but for the price, I'd rather support forgeline, ccw, BBS, or kinesis. I consider HRE the lamborghini of the wheel world. Nice jewelry.

as far as I could tell,there is nothing about broken HRE wheels in those links,but Kinesis wheels, and if theese morons want to ban particular brand of wheels,why don't they ban cars in general? they break too,ban axles as they break,ban tires ,cause they blow,ban engines ,cause they fail,throw rods,e.t.c.,ban glass ,cause it breaks ,I'm sure any wheel under heavy loads race after race will show stress fractures,BBS included

CCW are pretty good wheels,but I'm sick of looking at them,as 75% of Supra owners have a set of CCW Classics and I'm a Supra fanatic
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I realize in track conditions this happens to many wheels, but for the money you're paying for a "forged" stronger wheel, I don't want to be one of these guys at the track.





I cracked a nice set of 'forged' wheels from a different company on my previous car. The company was D-forged. Perhaps someone can correct me, but I've been told by numerous people that the same barrels, faces and parts are supplied out of china these days. Hence so many of the companies having the exact same or similar designs?

Who knows... iForged has a much worse rep than HRE, thats for sure.
the top pic is some old ass wheel,it may not even be HRE,just a center cap, the bottom one is 100% not HRE wheel, also do you have factual details and conditions on how theese wheels broke? I've seen plenty of OEM wheels break just like the one in bottom photo, just take a trip to local salvage auto auction
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My dealings with Iforged was quite fun..

i call my wheels "Iforgets" now..


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Old 08-12-2009, 11:44 PM
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the top pic is some old ass wheel,it may not even be HRE,just a center cap, the bottom one is 100% not HRE wheel, also do you have factual details and conditions on how theese wheels broke? I've seen plenty of OEM wheels break just like the one in bottom photo, just take a trip to local salvage auto auction
My own experience with the range rover wheels isn't fact?

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...res-again.html

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...hre-wheel.html

I'm not insulting a member of your family or anything. I stated my own experience and observations of HRE. Take it or leave it. I'd take my money to one of the many great companies out there. HREs are pretty too look at, but you'll never see a set on my car.
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Old 08-13-2009, 12:19 AM
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My own experience with the range rover wheels isn't fact?

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...res-again.html

http://www.6speedonline.com/forums/9...hre-wheel.html

I'm not insulting a member of your family or anything. I stated my own experience and observations of HRE. Take it or leave it. I'd take my money to one of the many great companies out there. HREs are pretty too look at, but you'll never see a set on my car.
I did some reading on 6speed and HRE blamed the powder coat temp as a reason for one of their wheel centers cracking, as a 3rd party did it. They offered the guy who had the issues an entirely new set of wheels in any design or color for about 70% off on price. The wheels he had issues with were on a car when he bought it at that.. seemed like good customer service to me. The HRE rep was posting in the thread about how he would take care of it even though the warranty was void as soon as the wheels were powder coated.. maybe you need make friends with a rep and deal only with him to get stuff figured out.....?
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