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The following may end up to be a little bit to read but I am looking for some help from other forum members with my situation. If you currently own wheels from Work then I would love to hear what you have to say. Please try to keep this thread on topic.

Anyway here is my situation:

Currently I own a set of rims that really should be on a Jeep or some kind of SUV. Since day 1 of owning them I have had nothing but issues. I should of never even put them on the car but at the time I wanted black 20" rims. Since day one the wheels have made the steering wheel shake, at times so bad that the automatic shifter also was shaking. At first it was a bad rim, that I had Rennen replace. Then it was a bad tire, that I had to replace. Then after a year of trying to figure out how come it was still shaking I found out the place that installed them put the wrong size hub centric rings on the car and they didn't even fit the hub of the car.

Currently the car drives pretty good overall but still has some shake around 75MPH. I have had the tires road forced balanced, I have put nitrogen in the tires. I have had them checked by a few different places. Most of the time the answer I received to why it was still shaking was one of the following things:

1) They will never fit like factory because they are not hub centric.
2) They are 20" rims and will never drive like factory.
3) They are big heavy cast rims and they will never drive like factory.
4) Your dumb for putting those on your Z.

So after dealing with this issues I finally decided to pull out some real cash and put some real JDM rims on the car. I looked around a bunch and really fell in love with the Work Gnosis GS2's. I was on the forums a bunch and found a vendor that is a authorized retaliator for Work.

During our phone call I explained to him some of my problems. I explained to him that I was looking for a rim that was a JDM rim that was hub centric without needing a hub ring for the Z. At that time we talked a little about the GS2 and the H203 and I explained that I was to make sure that after spending the kind of money I was about to spend that I wanted the offset to be correct and I wanted a rim that was hub centric without a hub ring. I was very insistent on this fact and he explained to me that the Work rims were hub centric.

So we pick out the finishes and offsets of the rims(which took a few hours). and I leave a pretty big deposit.

Four weeks go by and I had just wanted to see if the wheels made it on the boat so I called work up and talked with a sales person there who said the wheels were finished but not on the boat yet. That they will be here early November. During our phone call I explained to the sales rep about my issues with my Rennen Wheels and how excited I was to have a real set of JDM wheels that were also hub centric.

At that point the sales rep from Work said, these are not hub centric(I think I fell out of my chair). I got so pissed, I was like why did I just spend so much money on these rims if they are not exactly what I wanted? I told the vendor that I wanted rims that are hub centric!

He explained to me the reasons of why they weren't hub centric and that if I had ordered hub centric that it would of taken even longer then 8 to 12 weeks. I am pretty sure at that time my blood started to boil, I was hot. I had to go to the bathroom and put water on my face and if I wasn't at work I think I would of punched a wall.

Anyway I hang up the phone, call the vendor and as nice as possible I explain to him what I was told. After going back and forth a little he does say he is sorry that he didn't even realize they were not hub centric. He did say he would try to help and figure out a solution with me.

We started talking some more a few times during the day on Friday and he really felt that even though the wheels were not hub centric that because Work sends their own rings I would not have any problems. He felt that because 1000's of people run Works on their Z's that I wouldn't have any problems and he even wanted me to put this post up to hear what the Z community had to say.

During Friday I also called another vendor on the forums who explained to me that they could get me a 3 piece wheel custom made that is hub centric to the car for around the same price and in only 4 weeks but it is not JDM.

So now that you have read my wall of text here are some questions I have for everyone:

Please give me any advice if you currently have Works Gnosis series.
Have you had any issues with shake?
Did your rims come with good rings?
What would you want to do if you were in my situation?
Would you want a refund and go with the custom rims that are hub centric?
Would you stick with the works?
Would you want a discount?
Would you want to wait another 3 to 6 months for rims that are hub centric from works?
Would you just keep on the same track and wait for the work wheels to come in Nov?


I am trying to be fair, on one hand I am upset that I am not getting what I asked for but at the same time I am pretty sure there are people out there who love their Work wheels.

I have left out all the vendors name on purpose and please keep it that way. I want to hear from the Z community. I am not looking to throw any company under the bus, car, or train.... yet.