On 4/6/06, robert shawn feller <feller@carboncow.com> wrote:
>
> > You'd think we were a third world country... I saw a lot of this when
> living in Latin America.
>
> UH OH...hypersensitivity police alert, someone save us from this
> statement...it mentions another country so it must be derogatory...help,
> help!
>
> Ha ha ha. This had to be intentional, right?
>
> Shawn

Shawn,

I actually haven't heard of a country called Latin America yet.  =)

As for alloys warping, I have seen this happen to my own Vanagon. The
culprit was a lump on the casting on the rear drum. It worked fine with the
steel wheels. No problem with the Carat alloys either. But when the wheel
was torqued down over this bump by the local tire shop, the immediately
result was a light wobble. After a few days of driving it that way, the
wheel could no longer be balanced. Seems something must have warped outside
of a sense of humor.

BenT