Tire Rack Rant

[Brett Dikeman]

At 10:34 PM -0400 7/31/03, Nate Stuart wrote:
>Would it really have been so hard to give him the make/model/year of your
>car? What harm could giving him more info than he really needed be?

Why?  I'll tell you -exactly- why.  Tire Rack lists virtually no
wheels that they claim fit the 200q20v- and the Borbet Type C is one
of the wheels they claim doesn't fit(naturally, if it's not on the
list of wheels that DO fit, it couldn't POSSIBLY fit!), even though
Greg Amy, Neil Swanson, and I know damn well it does.  I could name
at least half a dozen wheels that listers know fit the 200q20v, but
aren't listed as fitting.  When I want to see what various wheels in
the 5x112 etc are available+look like, I generally just put in some
model year A4.  It's amusing that even between the various years of
A4's the selection changes.

The conversation I provided was one of two- the first was earlier in
the day, when I was told the Borbet didn't fit my car, and by the
way, would I be interested in the house brand(?!) wheel?  Gosh, the
sales rep thought it was a really sharp lookin' wheel, and he had
just sold that very wheel to someone with a 200q20v a few days ago
and they loved it?

I fired up the browser and looked at the wheel he was recommending
and claimed would match my tastes if I liked the Type C.  It was a
hideous looking 18" chrome-plated, jagged-spoked wheel.  Uh huh,
that's really like the silver painted straight-and-flat-faced spoke
Type C...

Brett
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