New Wheels.... YAY!

[Goldy]

Been on a round the country trip today. To pick up my 'new' wheels. These were an ebay find, and a bit of a bargain. I've finally got myself some lightweight jap wheels! Buddy club p1's in staggered setup, with the mk2 offset. All they need now is some spigot rings and new tyres and we're ready to roll!

best bit of all ... 6.3kg per wheel, they're lighter than the stock 14'' wheels !!! :afro:

What do we think? black wheels on a red car??

Anyone want to buy my 15's so i can buy some tyres now ;)

http://img326.imageshack.us/img326/4782/dsc006406mw.jpg

[MRV6]

Nice purchase mate I like p1's alot. Good move on the weight front, my superleggeras were 8 lbs a wheel than the 17's I had on the car originally. Get em on and lets have a look.

[superchargedsam]

Goldy they are looking wicked ! had a guy from the GT4oc drop by my office the other week with some parts and he was in a red 185 with black wheels and had to say it looking ferkin awsome and loved the combo !

[Marksman]

Very nice Goldy but you might like to buy two more.

Miss Owen has black wheels on a yellow car, and I nicked them for a day to put on my red one and they certainly looked nice, so I'd say go for it.

Cheers,

Owen.

[Sponge Bob]

Awesome - I like those mate - will contrast nicely with the red for sure!!

I got some nice white enkei's waiting to go on... just can't afford tyres at the mo... bah

[Peebs]

Those are quite smart matey. Great weight saving too. :thumbsup:

How much are you looking for the 15 inchers ?
Are they standard wheels ? If not got a piccie ?

Edit : Just looked at your gallery pics, are they the ones fitted in those pics ?

[MRV6]

[QUOTE=Peebs]
How much are you looking for the 15 inchers ?
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You might want to rephrase that mate :icon_eek:

[Sponge Bob]

Lol MRV6, nice accompanying smilie too hehe

[adamh]

nice rims goldy. whats the width and diameter ? :mrgreen:

[Paul Woods]

of his rims or his 15 incher? :)

[MRV6]

Shit man pmsl, these threads where the hell do they go to?? Thats some bore to fill.

[Peebs]

Fecking hell, you lot sound like a bunch of gimp whipping, ass greasing gaylord bummer freaks! Think I might leave the forum altogether after that lil' onslaught

ROFLMAO

Take my advice, its just gone kicking out time so go check all your locals as you might just find a bit o' totty that will change your way of thinking lads.

[adamh]

of his rims or his 15 incher? :)

:D ..
my horn has low tones!.. but this thread.. :smack:

[Paul Woods]

Fecking hell, you lot sound like a bunch of gimp whipping, ass greasing gaylord bummer freaks!

no no no,im not having that....we are not freaks! lol

[Goldy]

The girth is 8.5 inches and 7.5 inches... there are 4 of them by the way lol I'll leave the rest to your imagination.

Tyre wise i'm probably going to go for 225's and 205's as thats whats on them at the mo, I quite like the grip levels i've currently got and don't wanna go stupid widths and screw up the handling!

The 15's i'm going to sell are the ones on my car in the gallery. They're totally mint rev3's They've been garage stored from new and have had bout 6k miles put on them, and are wrapped in bridgstone potenza gIII tyres. I'm holding out for ?250 squid for them as I doubt i'd ever find another set in the same nick.

[Rosssco]

Goldy,

Where these the ones on fleebay about a month ago? As in the same wheels I didnt bid on cos I was late into work one morning..... :doh:

Very nice mate, good find

[Goldy]

Yep they were..... the auction finished at 8am... i put ?80 quid on them but missed out as I slept in on the morning doh.... They went for bout ?127 in the end but the buyer didn't show and so the guy stuck em back on ebay... Sent him a pm and got him to take em off as I really wanted them. Bit of a stroke of luck really. Ended up paying ?150 for em in the end, which I think is a bit of a bargain as they're bout ?250 per wheel new!! :mrgreen:

[Goldy]

Put em on the car today to check if they fit, and they do. I need some spigot rings for em but i'm not sure what size they are now. I'll probably go and buy a micrometeter tomorrow, cos i've wanted one for ages!! :boogie:

I'm not sure about the black now. The wheels need a bit of a refurb me thinks so I might go for gunmetal insted of black meh thinks :hmm:

http://img234.imageshack.us/img234/3780/dsc006684ed.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/3232/dsc006707sh.jpg

[jasper]

Wheels look sweet Goldy mate.....tis just the car that spoils 'em lol

[Marksman]

Wheels look sweet Goldy mate.....tis just the car that spoils 'em lol

:mrgreen:

[superchargedsam]

LMFAO@Jasper !

[Paul Woods]

id leave them black mate,they look stealthy!

[Goldy]

Dunno I'm thinking gunmetal as thats what they are on the back!!!

As for you jasper :nunu: :D

Anyone know what a centre bore of 4H is in mm?

[adamh]

what ya mean 4h??

not heard of that, then i guess im no alloy gimp.. a micrometer wont do it goldy, you'd need a 50-75 mic at a guess, and a telescopic bore gauge.

best thing to do, is take them to an alloy wheel shop and get them to measure up one, or find a machine shop somewhere, ask them to measure the bore.. .. 'enquire' etc... you'll get it measured no probs take a bare minute.

[Peebs]

Ignore "tough" Owen and Jasper Goldy, they have not yet seen the light :)

That said, I agree with what you said about the colour, get em polished or done in ally colour is my advice...or find someone with a nice shiney black mr2, say like mine :) and sell them to him for shall we say ?200 lol

Seriously though Si, polished up would look a treat methinks.

[Goldy]

Polished may be a bit bling for my liking. I might give it a go though. I'm going to get the tyres taken off tomorrow and start working on them. The other problem is that they have a few scuffs on em so might need fillering.

They used to be this colour I think http://www.twobrutal.co.uk/forum/images/recovered/2006/06/63.jpg

I rekon it might look pretty good with a red car.

[superchargedsam]

oh yes gunmetal grey :drool: