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I've been patiently waiting for these wheels since its release at TAS 2013. I promptly placed an order in February after purchasing my Tein SRC in hopes of receiving it soon. Upon placing the order, my sales rep (I will start referring the rep as my friend. He really is a great one.) told me that the ETA for the wheels will be late April to early May. With great excitement comes with great anxiety, it became harder and harder for me to wait for these babies. Few days ago on Wednesday morning, my friend had sent me a text message with the following message, "your wheel is here." Simple, yet strong phrase. This same phrase got me burst with joy and excitement. At this point, I had promptly set an appointment to pick up the wheels in the same afternoon.
In the mean while, I visited the trusty online tire store Tire Rack and placed an order of the Bridgestone Potenza RE-11A. No time was wasted.
Upon my arrival, my friend had greeted me and told me that he had a surprise in the box. Now, I'd like to explain something before I go on further. Although some of the variants of these wheels did, I always knew that these particular lines of wheels were never manufactured with "concavity" in them in high offsets. At first when I opened the box, I had no idea what I supposed to be surprised about because my excitement and anxiety level was already through the roof. Then my friend told me to look at its spoke designs. As soon as he said the word "spoke", it immediately hit me in my face. I was overthrown by the joy, the happiness, and the uncontrollable excitement. The wheels were CONCAVE. For the next few minutes, the adrenaline were rushing through my veins from the head to toe, and needless to say, I could not control my self, but to giggle like a little school girl. Yes, I said it.... a school girl.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you one of the first sets of TE37RT in the States.
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This shot was taken at the time of delivery. Even while I was man handling my iPhone 5 for the photo duty, I could not stop the giggling madness.
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This shot shows the tires already mounted on the wheels. Although this happened yesterday late afternoon, I have already installed the wheels and conducted a short but robust test drive with them, but unfortunately, it was too dark for me to take a decent photo of the car.
So here they are. A tease thread. I thank you for reading this lengthy and pointless thread, and I promise you that I will have some decent photos up as soon as possible. Again, I appreciate everyone for spending the time to read this.
Alan
