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1 Week Driving

2900 k's

Tyre blowout on return drive from Melbourne, 100's of K's from anywhere... Late friday... Thank God Tyrepower is open, they'll fix it first thing...

K, back on the road, its only 10am, Got 2 new rear tyres, only cost me $600! Awesome!

Wtf, 'nother tyre gone?

Its the same freakin' wheel!

Gotta be kidding, that tyre is 130k's old!!

Trip to a new Tyrepower... Midday Saturday... Rim's got a crack :) New tyre useless.... Gotta drive home on a falcon rim...

Selling R34 GTR rim and Brand New tyre!! Going cheap, A1 condition!!!

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pimpin' ?!

pffft.. they're my drift rims. :D

Yeah i'd say pimpin was the wrong word to use, now I look like a 16 year old without a car :)

One hell of an expensive exercise anyway dude... being Vic, did it rain the whole time as well? :D

As I have always maintained. Victoria Sux!!!

That's gotta be more than just running a bit flat for a while. Is there suspension damage as well. Just the extensive wear on the old tyre makes me suspicious. As well, any pothole big enough to crack a rim like that could have caused other damage.

when i recently drove down to melbourne from sydney, i was blown out on how smooth the road was, like i dodged pot holes constantly on the way down and as soon as i hit the border i didnt get 1 pot hole,

drivin down with tein coil overs and a full bodykit scared me at some points i thought i cracked my bar n shit

ben...

try Neale's Wheels in Sydney, sinlge R34 GTR rims sometimes come up on Jap ebay. i'm sure one of our friendly sponsors would scout around for you.

Here you go was looking at this today

http://page4.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/d56143380

One R34 GTR rim :D

FWIW,

When I bought my first R32, it had 18x10 BBS wheels one of which had been slid along a gutter

(big gouge about 6mm deep).

Morton and May at Liverpool fixed it for $150; I couldn't tell where they'd actually done the work

from the outside (I made marks on the rim with a texta before I sent it to them). They have a good

rep from the research I did before sending my wheel to them (about 2 years ago now).

HTH,

Saliya

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