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Frozen Taurus said:
I don't think so. The title of the thread is Mulling over rim choices. Looks wide open for anyone/any wheel. My wheel thread was the same way.
Mulling over rim choices
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I don't think so. The title of the thread is Mulling over rim choices. Looks wide open for anyone/any wheel. My wheel thread was the same way.
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It's a classic jacking ... I keep getting notifications that someone has posted in my thread and they don't have anything to do with the rims I posted up or they have to do with somebody else asking questions about rims that will fit their car
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DJE624
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It may help if you change the title of the thread to "Frozen Taurus's Wheel Choices" or something like that. But it may be too late now.
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"Mulling over rim choices" is the title of my thread and that implies "everybody" is? huh weird ...I guess I'll be way more specific when titling threads next time 
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Just tryin' to help man. ;D
Hows about something that is custom 2/3 piece, and below the budget beltline?
http://www.evasivemotorsports.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=EM&Category_Code=Forgestar_F15
Get them painted any color combo you want, and any offset you want. Price is ridiculously low. I'm not even sure they'd honor it, but I imagine it would be worth a shot.
http://www.evasivemotorsports.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=EM&Category_Code=Forgestar_F15
Get them painted any color combo you want, and any offset you want. Price is ridiculously low. I'm not even sure they'd honor it, but I imagine it would be worth a shot.
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lol that is a great deal on that rim but my budget is more like under $400 Canadian per rim shipped
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Classic threadjacking happening here. There is more threadjacking going on in this forum than all of the other car forums I am on combined.Frozen Taurus said:
Frozen Taurus said:
OK, I think I have the solution.
Take your wheel options you picked, call the manufacturer or distributor of each one, and have them weigh the wheels. Take the lightest one, and buy those.
All else equal, take the lightest wheels. They will be the best performing, best MPG, and all that.
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Lanson said:
It's more than likely gonna be a TSW rim ... so I will start the research on weights for sure .
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TSW Panorama 20x10 is 25.9 pounds...I think we have a winner
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DJE624
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Very nice wheel. TSW is a great value.
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SHOdded said:
That pretty much goes with all aftermarket rims doesn't it?
).The curbing issue is a real threat.
The wife was driving on her own, and got cut off by a POS Honda who apparently didn't see our gleaming black Flex with shiny wheels. So, to save her own ass, she yanked the steering wheel to the right and scrubbed the RR wheel pretty bad on a curb edge. The damage was nasty, visually speaking.
The next day I sat down with varying grades of sandpaper, polish wheels, polish compounds, my air tools, and got to work.
I started with 100 grit and scrubbed off the severe damage, the peel-back effect the metal had against the curb. Then I went to 400 grit, and migrated to 800, 1000, 2000, and then to the polish wheels with coarse, medium, and fine polish bars. Finally, a few rub-downs with Mother's aluminum polish and then more rub-downs with Chemical Guys Metal Shine polish, which finished it all off.
End effect, a non-visible repair to the polished lip.
A chromed or painted wheel lip would not have fared as well, which is why I opted for polished lips originally. The fear of minor wheel curbs ruining a wheel barrel overcame the burden of keeping those polished lips...polished.
The wife was driving on her own, and got cut off by a POS Honda who apparently didn't see our gleaming black Flex with shiny wheels. So, to save her own ass, she yanked the steering wheel to the right and scrubbed the RR wheel pretty bad on a curb edge. The damage was nasty, visually speaking.
The next day I sat down with varying grades of sandpaper, polish wheels, polish compounds, my air tools, and got to work.
I started with 100 grit and scrubbed off the severe damage, the peel-back effect the metal had against the curb. Then I went to 400 grit, and migrated to 800, 1000, 2000, and then to the polish wheels with coarse, medium, and fine polish bars. Finally, a few rub-downs with Mother's aluminum polish and then more rub-downs with Chemical Guys Metal Shine polish, which finished it all off.
End effect, a non-visible repair to the polished lip.
A chromed or painted wheel lip would not have fared as well, which is why I opted for polished lips originally. The fear of minor wheel curbs ruining a wheel barrel overcame the burden of keeping those polished lips...polished.