Cheers mate. 1 for black

 

Im going to ask the same question because I've been sat on the fence for a good while about wheels. Black, silver or stay gold?? I've been looking at xxr 527's or rota grid drifts or simply space this a little to fill the arch a bit more.

 

What's the widest rim/off set you can run on a hatch?

 

I had xxr 527 8.5j et35 they look as though they catch but it's a deceiving picture

 

My hatch is quite a bit lower than a standard one too

 

Nice, pro R rear brakes! How much did they set you back mate? I've got AP 355mm on the front would like to do upgrade the rears in the future.

As for the wheels. Like you I have GT1's. I run a gunmetal set in the summer and a gold set in winter. On a black car (midnight blue in my case but unless I park next to a black car everyone thinks it's black) the gunmetal look a bit dull. I think dark colours would work well on a white car and probably blue as well.

 

I'm running Alcon 6pots on the front and Alcon 4 pots on the back mate. The rears cost me £1600 it stops so well and takes a long time to fade in the track.

 

Cheers mate. Looks great. Have you thought about white wheels on yours? I like white on blue.

 

I'm leaning towards gun metal grey like the ones on my camper.

 

I have thought about white but I've got a lot of black bits on it so I would have to take them back to blue for it to look right

 

I'm not a fan of white wheels personally. I do like black on a blue car, it shouldn't work but it does IMO.

 

If they're on their original colour, keep them that way.

I'm looking it and thinking nearly 20 years on from a white type r with original gold wheels.

 

I think they've been painted but not sure.

 

Looks like they were silver standard




I think silver is now favourite, back to standard.

 

Spot on fella

 

Yeah good shout in the silver for sure. Black would look good with it having the black spoiler just food for though.

 

I like the gt1's it's just the offset is wrong for the size of the arches on our hatches, that's why I'm looking at some hub centric spacers.

 

glad you've got the car



either go back to what they should be...


Not BLACK!!!

if you want a colour change go dark grey in a matt/satin finish.. like the audi finish/colour.

https://www.thewheelspecialist.co.uk...#powdercoatedG

 

Haha salsa King did you not have black wheels on your white hatch or am I getting mixed up from live I've seen?

 

I like your thinking Salsa

 

No, mine are the GT2's in the original anthracite colour.

Black is a too easy option on colour change.

When I get mine re done I'm still going to keep with the satin/matt finish like they are now, but probably go for the audi satin colour the Wheel Specialist do, as it's quite near to what I have now


for winter I'm on the STi 17's
done in RAL 2009 orange
M-SOC 2016 by FIL, on Flickr

summer it's
19" Prodrive GT2's
Prodrive-108 by FIL, on Flickr

 

Argh ok apologies there mate I got mixed up, how do you find the cro trade between 17's to 19's ?

 

17s are a so much nicer ride.

19's are hard and can tram line on lorry ruts in the road being so wide at 245/35/19

 

I've looked at some bola b1's in silver for mine and they're 9.5 inch wide so a 245 is the thinnest tire I could use really and I wondered if they would tram line or not. Does it ever get used hard with the 19's for a comparison of handling under pressure ?

 

I run 18"x 9.5 with 245's and they are fine don't get any tram lining

 

Have you used it on a track wit those mate?

 

she finally arrived then daz best of luck with it buddy

 

You might want to think twice about The E-bola's mate. There was a thread on here recently about them and the consensus was they are really nasty quality!

 

Cheers mate.

 

Being valeted as we speak!