Hi there, their picture is with the gold hub. The black ones are just a black rim with gold nipples and hub and the gold version was black nipples and hub. I think on that grounds if you weren’t 100% on them you prob should’ve just repackaged. If they were mis-desribed then CRC will listen to them. Best bet is to give them a call. They have awesome customer services and providing everything is all clean they will take them back. AT the end of the day all you’ve done is offer a tyre up, you’ve not put a cassette on and got it all oily etc.
I’ve got the 26″ versions and Bonty tyres and they are really tight and I thought impossible but got them on. Have you got one side on or is it both sides? Get a sponge with some soap water and appply it the the insde face of the tyre.Then just inch the tyre on a bit at a time. My panaracer went on really easily but think the bonty was justa little tight, soapy water did the trick though.
If you’re not 100% though don;t bother, just put the wheels back into the plastic abgs and put it into the CRC box. There’s a parcel plus sticker in there with your ivoice so you can take it to a local shop or put the postage label on and take it to the PO. Just cover up all previous postage labels and put your details on there as a sender and then get a recipt of postage.