18" or 19" Wheels

[phucks1976]

Im looking at buying an M3 but it only has 18inch wheels. Will I look like a bit of a girl if I drive an M3 with only 18inch wheels. I know its only an inch but it means a lot to me.

[Rawhide]

19's are cheap on ebay. It will cost you about £200-300 to change. Not a deal breaker by any means. And potentially a haggling point

[gareth h]

They drive much better on 18"s (I've run on standard 19"s CSL 19"s and am back on 18"s).
But they look much sexier on 19"s, a good compromise is to stick with the 18"s and fit 15/10mm spacers front / rear, fills the arches nicely and dials out the understeer, I've had my 18"s powder coated anthracite which cheers them up a bit.

[JMRS4]

phucks1976 said:

Im looking at buying an M3 but it only has 18inch wheels. Will I look like a bit of a girl if I drive an M3 with only 18inch wheels. I know its only an inch but it means a lot to me.

I have the latest M3 (last week delivered) and I have put 18" OEM wheels on for the winter. My 19" wheels will go on for better weather. I have posted a picture of the car with 18" wheels.

[foresterlad]

Interestingly the launch cars available in Spain were on 18ins. rims as were many of the development E92's. However at the Ring all the training cars I saw were on 19ins. I think it is a cosmetic choice rather than anything to do with the dynamics, aided by dealers telling you 19ins are a must have for re-sale.

[MC99]

19s are a decent upgrade for when you feel like it - especially when you might want to do a tyre change too and pick up wheels and tyres on fleabay..slightly biased

[M3]

I bought mine this week, with 18s and it does seem better with them than the others I drove with 19s therefore I will be......

Selling them and putting on the CSLs I also bought, got to be 19s...

[Stevo///M3]

phucks1976 said:

Im looking at buying an M3 but it only has 18inch wheels. Will I look like a bit of a girl if I drive an M3 with only 18inch wheels. I know its only an inch but it means a lot to me.

It means a lot to her too... ;-)

[rassi]

MC99 said:

19s are a decent upgrade for when you feel like it - especially when you might want to do a tyre change too and pick up wheels and tyres on fleabay..slightly biased

I actually think the 18" are very good looking (maybe the anthracite colour helps), even better than the standard 19".

[MC99]

I like them on my car, also looks very stealth on grey too..I think the facotry 19s on E92s are very bling, but do look good in the flesh..each to their own and all that...

[phucks1976]

thanks for all your help bought the car with 18's

[mat205125]

rassi said:

MC99 said:

19s are a decent upgrade for when you feel like it - especially when you might want to do a tyre change too and pick up wheels and tyres on fleabay..slightly biased

I actually think the 18" are very good looking (maybe the anthracite colour helps), even better than the standard 19".

The 18s on the current cars look so much better in my opinion. The polished 19s look a little too "Miami" for my tastes. There is a white coupe with black powder coated 19s in my local dealership, however, and that looks amazing.

Completely impartial of course