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Originally Posted by sleepy911

I like how the op has posted twice since this above post with no comment. Interesting

Ok, good day sleepy911,

As I suspected, the other guy still trying to prove he is right, telling a bunch of lies and missing the good parts of the story, and, with a poor atitude of whatever he think he is, now the truth is simple, "A guy buys a steering wheel that is rare and very delicate (those early 60´s ABARTH wheels are made of a very mild aluminium compared with later ones from 70´s or even nowerdays aluminium wheels) by some reazon he bends it and he brakes it, probably trying to bend it back, then he contacts the seller saying, MY wheel has broken while I was driving. he sends me the picture of the crack, and he asks for a refund." now:

1º I never saw the picture of the all broken wheel until today, so I have to thank you for bring up this subject so we can really clear things out.

2º By looking at that picture I can really see what I have suspected all along, THAT WHEEL WAS BENDED and it BROKE while trying to REBENDED BACK. Is clearly visionable the wheel is not correct and on a straigh line as you can see by the pictures of the same wheel in the day it was sold and shipped.

3º As beeing a wheel collector/buyer/seller for more than 20 years with a current sotock of 250 steering wheels, and with more than 600 wheels sold worldwide for ALL kind of cars, I had/have all kinds of steering wheels and most of my clients/friends know me for that, I KNOW WHY THAT WHEEL BROKE. EXCESSIVE FORCE ON IT. this can happen by HOLDING ON THE WHEEL WHILE YOU ARE SITTING ON THE CAR AND TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE CAR, or IF YOU HAVE AN ACCDENT AND YOU HOLD ON THE WHEEL, or ANY OTHER EXCESSIVE FORCE PUTING STRESS ON THE ALUMINIUM, it´s very comum to see early MOMO´s with stress signs, or BROKEN. this will probably wont hapen on newer wheels like the ones you can see in the begining of this treath. These are made of a much stronger aluminium.

STEERING WHEELS DONT BRAKE WHILE YOU DRIVING

4º Nevertheless I TRYED TO HELP SOME HOW EVEN WHEN 6 MONTHS HAVE PASSED AFTER THE GUY BOUGHT THE WHEEL.

5ºAfter a few changing of emails I REFUSE TO REFUND WHAT I THOGHT TO BE A MISTAKE FROM THE CLIENT and precisly because of the atitude and arrogancy of the guy.

6ºTHIS GUY SEND ME AN EMAIL THAT YOU CAN READ FOR YOURSELF WITH THOSE WORDS THAT YOU CAN READ. that WAS / IS THE END OF CONVERSATION OR ANY OTHER CONTACT.

Now I´m proud of being Portuguese and allthought I have adress in Madrid and Lisbon and moving allover EUROPE I have among my clients/friends some of the biggest PORSCHE /FERRARI / Classic cars in general specialists on my mobile phone. Also I have SOLD to allover the world and ALLWAYS had a great FEEDBACK.

BUT IF I SEE A GUY THAT IS TRYING TO SCAMM ME WITH SOME BULL*** STORY AND IN THE TOP HE MAKES FUN OF ME AND MY COUNTRY!!!! I WONT ALLOW THAT, NOT NOW, NOT YESTERDAY AND NOT TOMORROW.

So as this beeing sad I salut all the members that are reading this, and specially all the happy costumers I have all over the world.

My kindest regards

Paulo Bitton

I WILL INCLUDE PICTURES SO YOU CAN TAKE YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS