Yeah car was used, not new. Genuine MDs car, it's on the log book and it took me 6 weeks to buy the car ! Wheels not mentioned on original paperwork. I'm sure the other VW dealership will put it in writing if I ask them nicely. The tyre and wheel place where I took the damaged wheel to are pretty big and are going to send the wheel away for some NDT.

2 years ago I bought a car from the local VW dealer in Swindon. The car was their Managing Directors and had been modified slightly - body trim, window tints etc. and a set of 22" alloy wheels (non VW). Last weekend I took the car into a tyre centre to have them look at a suspected puncture. Well upon removing the wheel and tyre they discovered that the wheel had 4 cracks in the inside wheel rim. These cracks do not look like impact cracks and the guy in the tyre centre said "I'd take this straight back to VW mate". I then went to the nearest VW dealership (not the one I bought the car from) and the used car sales manager put the car up on the ramps to inspect the other wheels and then said "they should never have sold you this car with these wheels as the are not fit for purpose" ! The dealership is saying that I knew that the car had after market wheels fitted to it and that it's not their problem ! What can I do to take this further ? I've already been to another VW dealer and they have also said that the wheels are not suitable for the car. The wheel dealership that sold the wheels to the MD at VW have said that there is nothing wrong with the size and spec of the wheels and that they are going to investigate why the rims cracked "but suspect normal driving impact, potholes etc.) Where do I stand ??:-|