Alpine A290GT wheels

[andygo]

My wife has an Alpine A290 GT. The wheels are horrible looking so thinking of swapping them fro something more attractive. they are 8J x 19 with an ET30 offset.

My main problem is separating decent wheels from poor quality ones. I looked at Compomotive wheels, but they don't seem to do the size.

Any other suggestions - not really a fan of diamond cut rims, something like this VW Pretoria rim would be good.

[samoht]

You'll need to find wheels with the correct fitment also, which I think is 5 x 114.3 .

Do you have a budget in mind? I'd be thinking Work for high-end wheels
https://www.driftworks.com/wheels-and-accessories/...

[smithyithy]

Japan Racing JR21:



JR30:



They're about 300/wheel on their site, they have UK dealers though.

Different colours / finishes available, but they do make them in the correct size / fitment for the Alpine

[andygo]

They look quite good. I like wheels with enough space between the spokes to clean them properly!

Have you experience of Japan wheels?

[smithyithy]

Not personally, no. I've seen the brand around for a while though..

I'd imagine they're just alright - there are a lot of brands that make that style of wheel, some of the proper forged ones would be double the price, so it depends how far you want to go I suppose..

[andygo]

Well its 'only' a shopping car I suppose, my wife isn't doing a WRC stage despite the potholes everywhere.

The Japan Racing wheels seem to all be 8.5inch wide in 19's though which might stretch the tyres a bit. Need the most overhang possible over the sides....

[HTP99]

Had an A290 GT is at work with the "square" wheels, they had been painted gold, looked pretty good.

Edited by HTP99 on Monday 9th November 15:19

[andygo]

Ours has the square wheels as well, they look homemade in black!

Trouble with gold wheels is that I already have 4!

Edited by andygo on Monday 9th November 15:25

[smithyithy]

andygo said:

Well its 'only' a shopping car I suppose, my wife isn't doing a WRC stage despite the potholes everywhere.

The Japan Racing wheels seem to all be 8.5inch wide in 19's though which might stretch the tyres a bit. Need the most overhang possible over the sides....

They do make them in 0.5" steps and most PCD / offsets from the looks of things, but it's a case of finding them in stock, Rimstyle for example (assume they can order the missing fourth wheel!):

[Baldchap]

OP, I'm curious to know what wheels are on it that you hate?

We just ordered one with the silver wheels but we haven't actually seen them, I just knew I didn't want black or 'square'...

[andygo]

Ours ate the nasty square ones. We bought a demo car so a bit stuck on choice. We tried to swap them with another car they had in stock but the dealer couldn’t accommodate as if either car had a warranty claim for a wheel, Alpine would only replace what was originally on the build sheet. Well, that’s what they said…