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Baught from them, they were excellent. One year ago 18" Rims with tyres for $1500 i think with lock nuts. St george tyres arent bad either, way cheaper them tempe, not quiet as much range. VERY fast response too via email.

www.stgeorgetyres.com

Usually when your keen on buying something though, you ring up, order them (like i did) and pay via credit card or another alternative and they'll send them out to you. Not many genuine buyers purchase items via email.

Think you'll find too when you pay for them they send you down a fax, you fill it in, sign it etc etc, and thats your security for the purchase.

Dayne

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i have had really poor service there, and they stuffed around my girlfriend so much i had to go in there and complain/sort it out. BUT i woul go back there as they are just so cheap. if you want the cheapest they are the place to go.

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That's a good point, they are very cheap and usually any place that's far cheaper than the rest is quite busy. They may also have less staff than comparable organisations to keep costs down =)

Pump them with email or better yet call them, they've gotta answer the phone =D

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Try Big O-Tyres. I was pleasantly surprised by helpful they were with trial fitting rims on my car, very patients with me while im ummmed and erred over the decision. No pressure at all.

Good bunch of ppl too, and have a good range of bling rims, racey rims and quality rims. I had no idea if i got a good price, until i did some howework weeks after, and it turns out they were well priced to boot :)

Dont know if thats indicative of the service they normally provide, or i got lucky, but worth a try. ( i will add that they were recommended by a friend who rang them to say i was swingign by...so that may have put their mind at ease that i was walkign off with rims and they probably werent too stressed with me walkign away having wasted their time)

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I dont live in Sydney so they sent my rims out. One they sent me was the wrong one (dunno how they could send me 3 the same and one wrong but anyway) It was a bit of a hassel trying to sort it out. If you have any trouble just make sure you get their name and always ask for them next time you ring.

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