Wrong OE wheels!
Discussion
Philplop said:
The Audi RS2 was a joint project by Audi and Porsche, and came with Porsche wheels, brakes, suspension and mirrors as standard, and was assembled in the Porsche factory.
Sounds like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yil9wlfa0yo
What's funny is that most of the people who do this wheel thing would point fingers and laugh at an MR2-Ferrari replica with a Ferrari badge, or God forbid the old Chrysler 300 with a Bentley badge stuck on the front and back. But think it's cool and 'DUB' to use Ferrari or Bentley badges on their cars' wheels - wheels which are often fake replicas themselves!!
sealtt said:
What's funny is that most of the people who do this wheel thing would point fingers and laugh at an MR2-Ferrari replica with a Ferrari badge, or God forbid the old Chrysler 300 with a Bentley badge stuck on the front and back. But think it's cool and 'DUB' to use Ferrari or Bentley badges on their cars' wheels - wheels which are often fake replicas themselves!!
It's not really anything like that though is it? They aren't fitting lookalike body panels, or fitting the badges on their bonnet, or trying to pass their car off as something it's not. Nobody sees a Golf on Bentley wheels and thinks it's a Bentley, and that isn't the aim. The centre caps fit the wheels and it's not always easy to replace them with the cars make's logo. They're just a wheel. They're interchangeable. Maybe they do it because they like it? Some people are taking it too seriously. There probably aren't as many high end replicas as you think either. Only ones I can think of are the Lamborghini wheels on the vans above.
I didn't think you could make an A2 look any worse than Audi managed, but seems I was wrong.smithyithy said:
Some of the stuff I've seen at shows are pretty cool, like Golf Rs and Audi S3s with Lambo / Ferrari wheels AND brakes!
My mate told me the other day his brothers B5 RS4 was running Gallardo brakes...Back on topic, there's a 320D in my works car park that runs X5 wheels, looks pretty good, nice and subtle, kind of like this.....:
....only it seems to be standard ride height, the wheels, although looking very large, look like they came with the car.
Just to add - BMW are almost doing this to themselves with the awful 'M Performance' range of accessories.
I saw a brand new 3 series last week which looked like a turd rolled in carbon fibre glitter and was wearing huge diamond cut two tone OEM wheels which look far too big on the car so may as well have come from an X5.
I saw a brand new 3 series last week which looked like a turd rolled in carbon fibre glitter and was wearing huge diamond cut two tone OEM wheels which look far too big on the car so may as well have come from an X5.
samuelellis said:
not a massive massive change compared to some on here but i swapped the wheels on my s60 for a set off an s80 iirc that were refurbed in a dark grey as the original ones on my car were corroded to hell and back
The ones you've fitted are, I think, Volvo Amalthea and were standard fit to my V70 T5 so I suspect they were certainly an option on the S60 anyway.Gassing Station | General Gassing | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff