Any wheels anyone?

[Black VXR]

Had a nasty incident last night - when travelling up a country road near Beaconsfield, 40 ish, raining, dark and quite a narrow road. Just as a car comes the other way (so I dropped my full beams) I was aware for a second of something in the road and then a large bang. Car starts pulling to left so I pulled into side and sure enough nearside front going down. Limped off the road to a pub car park only to see the rear flat as well.

I walked back to find 3 x old tyres in the road, one of which I had straddled and it looks like the impact with the two near side tyres knocked them off the beads. I have never seen anything quite like this.

The recovery guy was very good and careful and the car is back at home looking very sad, still (no doubt) a lot better then if I had either hit the car coming the other way head-on or if I had left the road).

Not sure what I will need yet, but guessing 2 x new tyres and probably 2 new wheels (I can't believe they will have not been damaged, although they look perfect from the outside).

So – my question - has anyone bought new wheels recently for a 56 plate VXR 6.0 with AP’s? Just thinking it might be better (and a lot quicker) to get something after market, particularly when reading the horror stories that some have posted when trying to source new wheels for Ro’s.

[ringram]

There are a couple of sets on pistonheads classified under hsv parts.

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/859151.htm

Edited by ringram on Thursday 12th February 09:09

[essexhsv]

Dave, maybe if we buy the 4 listed above we could go halfs on the money and have 2 wheels each.

[MadMaxHSV]

I'd be interested in one corner if you guys were doing a split.

[Magic919]

Ask Jez if he has any left.

[monkfish1]

Magic919 said:

Ask Jez if he has any left.

He has sold so many wheels there are none left for the car

[crisisjez]

My cars looking like its spent the night in a Lidl carpark

[nitrosman1]

crisisjez said:

My cars looking like its spent the night in a Lidl carpark

if you still have that set of 4 that you didnt want to split maybe we could do a deal or something up to you jez

[crisisjez]

Sorry ollie sold them all to pay for my habit