New Chim Mods?
Discussion
TVR are currently doing he Tamora bigger brake conversion (all round) five stud hubs, 16" Spider wheels complete with tyres for £1,300 all in. It seems to have come about because nearly everyone who orders a new car seems to go for the upgraded wheel option, TVR made a shedload of 16" wheels that no-one wants.
Its also beacause there are no Griff or Chimaera wheels available new and TVR do not want to remanufacture them . A clever way of killing 2 birds with one stone and making a shed load of money at same time. Flood the market with used Griff/ Chimaera wheels and unload a pile of 16" wheels nobody wants. Pity they dont make more inspired decisions
If your brakes need renewing, your tyres are bald and you have scruffy wheels and can do the work yourself then short term you should be ok. If you intend to keep the car a few years then originality is "King" in cars the older they get. You may just be feeding TVR's greed. Given they have made 6000 Chimaeras and 3000 Griffs, that is 36000 wheels why the f**k should you not be able to get a replacement wheel if you need one from the people who made ALL the money in the first place
thegamekeeper said:
If your brakes need renewing, your tyres are bald and you have scruffy wheels and can do the work yourself then short term you should be ok. If you intend to keep the car a few years then originality is "King" in cars the older they get. You may just be feeding TVR's greed. Given they have made 6000 Chimaeras and 3000 Griffs, that is 36000 wheels why the f**k should you not be able to get a replacement wheel if you need one from the people who made ALL the money in the first place
1. There were at least 5 different styles.
2. The manufacturers of some of those wheels went bust and it doesn't matter how much ranting, that does make it a tad difficult to remanufacture them.
3. The current manufacturer would undoubtedly make some new wheels but the minimum order is high and would many prospective owners pay a couple of grand for a wheel? No they will wait until someone writes off a car and recycle the wheels. At current rates that doesn't take too long.
thegamekeeper said:
Given they have made 6000 Chimaeras and 3000 Griffs, that is 36000 wheels why the f**k should you not be able to get a replacement wheel if ....
Errm, that volume is small beer to most manufacturers. For an example, BBS used to supply the old multi-spoke alloy wheels to VW for the GTI and Corrado models - but they were only ever in limited production. So much so that they have recently dried up and you can no longer get them. Hence the number of older Golfs and Corrados with changed alloys cos you cant get them any more....
And the volume - well how about 1M... this is the same wheel what we fitted as standard to the GTI 16v, Corrado 16v and early Golf VR6's - the reason for the change for the VR6 was limited availability! So in reality 36,000 wheels is a small number and probably doesnt really break even for the manufacturer.
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