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Yup. My car is now famous. That’s more than most here can say! Honestly, I was underwhelmed with how hard they had to hit it to get it off. I was prepared to see much scarier footage. Agreed. Bearings and alignment are all good. No issues with the car. The wheels are TBD. Bringing them to a...

The wheels are off! In truly anticlimactic fashion, I found a shop who works on heavy duty trucks who was willing to give it a shot. He said he used a 14 lb 4-foot sledge and had them off in 20 minutes… This is the exact tool the other shops used for hours with no luck. My running theory at...

They are not! Due to the holiday, I’ve been unable to spend time, but I’m out of ideas and energy. I’m dropping it at a shop next week who says they’re willing to spend some time trying, but if they’re not able I’ll ask them to cut them off. If they don’t want to be responsible, I’ll be buying...

This is my likely next step. I'm at a standstill due to the holiday, but will enjoy the mental break from this damn car for a week. I am scheduled for a shop to give it a shot towards the end of the month, but if that doesn't work, someone will likely be cutting at least 1 wheel off. My two...

Funny you should say that! This is exactly what I did this evening in a large empty parking lot with one wheel. I tried slowly moving the car with the lugs loose many times, but that didn’t work, so I stepped it up. Rapidly swerving back and forth going up to 30mph and corners going ~20. Even...

Still no luck at this point. Trying to find a shop who is willing to spend some time and maybe get creative. The manufacturer was of no use, whatsoever. Bad timing with the holiday coming up as I won’t be able to keep working on it next week. Hopefully I can make some progress this week 🤞

I have no other reference as to how hard wheels "should" be, but someone has mentioned that the fast wheels are quite soft. I can definitely support this as I have definitely dented the wheel in a bunch of different fun ways at this point and it doesn't seem to hold up very well against steel...

^ this. and since my wheels are sitting flush to the hub hat (or at the very least more flush than 3mm), it proves the likely scenario that the wheel has deformed since the steel hub shouldn't have been deformed by the aluminum wheel. The assumption is that the deformation of the wheel happened...

A week ago I thought "surely someone has done this before," but at this point, I'm pretty confident I am the only person to have done this. I think 1mm larger and they wouldn't fit. 1mm smaller and they wouldn't be stuck. I wish the manufacturer made that decision.... The dealer gave me some...

Yup, tried driving a bit, but haven't gone too crazy. This is another front-runner for next attempts. Even tried driving with the referenced gear puller engaged and it just bent the steel backing plate I was using to get a grip on the wheel....

Yup - have not tried this yet, but it has been recommended a couple of times. Definitely in the running for my next attempt.

Agreed. I'm far from an engineer, but the only thing I could imagine is that the lip on the P hub is significantly stronger than the aluminum wheel, so wheel I applied 129 ft/lb of torque on the lugs, since the wheels didn't have the small alteration to the bore to account for the lip, it...

I would agree, but at this point, I've had 3 different professional shops + myself + a lot of hours and everyone has said the exact same thing of "huh never seen this before. I've always been able to hammer the wheel off." I'm at a loss, but I'm obviously going to keep trying! This may be my...