Yeah, I'm strangely drawn to those.. despite being quite complex (ref. Nom ;-) they seem to quite successfully merge classy (ref. Lordy) with sexy. I've kind of narrowed it down to 4 styles now, so gonna get some bigger images of the wheels and picture the detail against my actual car (given it's flame red and not burgundy).
Bigus
nice spokes but not so keen on the rivet detail.. looks a bit tacky somehow
"Bigus" wrote
Yeah, forgot to mention the ones on the 600 I saw yesterday didn't have the split rim effect. I remember laughing at a Max Power article in which the all knowledgeable tome declared that "split rims are for vagina decliners"
Anyway the spokes are very similar to the TSW I pointed out, but there are no rivets. If I see the car again with driver, I'll ask about them.
one problem you may find is that by filling the arches you may lose the handling but by putting dinky rims on they are going to look a bit poo
they'll be the same size as I've got on currently
err that depends :)
Bigus
Btw, thanks for all the input and the 20 ppl who did the poll :-)
Here's the final results, for the record:
not bad, but they just don't look right they don't look wrong, but they don't look right either
go and try several rims on for size then :)
they got points? how?
20 ppl voted between 1 & 10 points for each wheel and those are the cumulative totals
Bigus
Agreed.
I thought you sold them to Lordy ?
If I were buying for my TI again now, I'd be buying 18" rims. The 17" weren't quite big enough, (only 1" bigger than standard). At the price though, I couldn't turn em down.
that was the previous set
Hmmm.. 18 would mean 215/40 tyres presumably.. which means more road noise and less acceleration
Bigus
arse! if I a known I would have :( still, seems like the majority verdict is probably the best one of the lot, so communism does work :)
Yes, but they look much better ! And seeing as the looks are the whole reason for the wheel-swap, I'm thinking they should rank pretty high up your priorities list :)
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