RL7 wheels

[gerradiuk]

My car has anthracite 18" spiders ,I would like to fit the car with the original 17" RL7 wheels (anthracite) where can I get a set ?
Oh & the Spiders are for sale when I get them

[optimax sniffer]

Just keep an eye out on ebay and the classifieds on here, you may be lucky

[Ant.]

gerradiuk said:

My car has anthracite 18" spiders ,I would like to fit the car with the original 17" RL7 wheels (anthracite) where can I get a set ?
Oh & the Spiders are for sale when I get them

They do come up now and again, but not as often as your lottery numbers may !!

[JensenA]

The RL 17's are the best wheel for the Cerb, I'm sure you'll notice a big improvement. A few years ago I was at Bell Hill Garage - Google ' Bell Hill Mazda Bongo' (don't ask ) - and they had boxes of shiny new RL 17's.

[Mark.]

JensenA said:

The RL 17's are the best wheel for the Cerb.

I like the 18's

[Cooky]

Mark. said:

JensenA said:

The RL 17's are the best wheel for the Cerb.

I like the 18's

I too like the look of the 18's but in practice you'd be better equiped with chocolate buttons, many of us ditched 18's a good few years back due to failings in casting, internal cracking and ease of buckling, be very carefull with 18's

That said the RL7 is a different beast, very dependable and a good looker.


Search for the postings from a few years back and see the input from 'those in the know' with regards to Raceline and the toils and tribulations that occured with RL8's

[grovest]

gerradiuk said:

My car has anthracite 18" spiders ,I would like to fit the car with the original 17" RL7 wheels (anthracite) where can I get a set ?
Oh & the Spiders are for sale when I get them

This is a good plan in my opinion for two reasons. 1 - they just look right, especially if you want to keep the car looking original, and 2 - they give excellent handling on "normal" roads.

Mine had 18" SP12s on when I bought it and, in fairness, I think they would be excellent on a track or just motorway quality roads. However they were a hard ride with 35 profile tyres and could occasionally clip the rear wheel arches on the lumpy back roads I use. I was fortunate as I also got the original wheels with my car. I had them refurbished as they were badly corroded and loosing pressure but the ride is just so much better on the original wheels.

I'd like a second set to put winter tyres on.

[Mark.]

Cooky said:

... you'd be better equiped with chocolate buttons, many of us ditched 18's a good few years back due to failings in casting, internal cracking and ease of buckling, be very carefull with 18's

Yes aware of the issues with the 18's and questioned that with the chap I bought off. He had them checked out and all was good. And I keep a close eye on them.

I'm not sure of the in and out's but wasn't it a batch problem? Pretty sure Dave said he spoke with the factory about it.

[Gazzab]

Mark. said:

Cooky said:

... you'd be better equiped with chocolate buttons, many of us ditched 18's a good few years back due to failings in casting, internal cracking and ease of buckling, be very carefull with 18's

Yes aware of the issues with the 18's and questioned that with the chap I bought off. He had them checked out and all was good. And I keep a close eye on them.

I'm not sure of the in and out's but wasn't it a batch problem? Pretty sure Dave said he spoke with the factory about it.

I had two sets of RL7 18's and my first cerb went through 2 sets of the same wheels before I got it. They were a lottery and as I understand it most sets ended up cracking and TVR asked for them to be destroyed and swapped for spiders. I got a set of spiders for free (which cost TVR only £200 anyway). You can repair the cracks which i am told is safe.

[Mark.]

Gazzab said:

Mark. said:

Cooky said:

... you'd be better equiped with chocolate buttons, many of us ditched 18's a good few years back due to failings in casting, internal cracking and ease of buckling, be very carefull with 18's

Yes aware of the issues with the 18's and questioned that with the chap I bought off. He had them checked out and all was good. And I keep a close eye on them.

I'm not sure of the in and out's but wasn't it a batch problem? Pretty sure Dave said he spoke with the factory about it.

I had two sets of RL7 18's and my first cerb went through 2 sets of the same wheels before I got it. They were a lottery and as I understand it most sets ended up cracking and TVR asked for them to be destroyed and swapped for spiders. I got a set of spiders for free (which cost TVR only £200 anyway). You can repair the cracks which i am told is safe.

Interesting, cheers. I continue to keep an eye on them.

Don't think I could go for Spiders TBH.

[chibbard]

I have 17" RL7's and would love to swap for anthricite spiders....

[Gazzab]

chibbard said:

I have 17" RL7's and would love to swap for anthricite spiders....

That would be a good swap - rightly or wrongly the spiders tend to demand twice the money that RL7s demand (or certainly that was the case).

[WorAl]

I have a set of RL17's which could be for sale if you offer me a stupidly high price

They were to be used on my project (Tuscan based car) but I'd let them go if needed....I guess.

[ridds]

There's nothing wrong with the 18" RLs the cracking is something you need to be aware of but they only crack on the very edge of the rim.

If you want scary check out BMW M3 wheel cracks...

here

I've seen these propagate all the way to the centre of the wheel!

[Mark.]

That's a crack indeed!

Wouldn't tyres loose pressure if they were cracked or is it only surface?

[gerradiuk]

Thanks chibbard guess that's what they call a "cheeky offer". I Think you are a bit too far away to do a swap but thanks again.

WorAl are the Tuscan wheels a straight bolt on fit onto a Cerb without any problems ??

[WorAl]

They are Cerbera wheels, I had them as spares for mine before I sold it. They are in silver though, not anthracite.

[ridds]

Mark. said:

That's a crack indeed!

Wouldn't tyres loose pressure if they were cracked or is it only surface?

Depends, when mine cracked, one lost pressure and one didn't got all the way back from the 'ring with both cracked. Only went flat after it had been in the garage for a few days. Checked my tyre pressures each run while I was out there.

The seal is on the lower portion of the bead well (the horizontal portion not the vertical portion) and I've yet to see an RL crack through the lower bead.