Received my 15x8's from 949Racing.com

Daz · Postby **Daz** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 6:09 am

I got my wheels from Emilio today, I know these have been discussed in the forum before. The quality looks great, each wheel is stamped with a weight, mine are 5.79kg... not bad for the size.

I also got the alloy valve stems and the alloy nuts, the nuts are great value at $3.50 I think, really light and look cool in black !

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:21 am

So did I

Matty · Postby **Matty** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 10:10 am

how much landed in Oz?

Daz · Postby **Daz** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 11:57 am

Matty wrote:how much landed in Oz?

I live in the states right now, but I think they are offering pretty good deals for shipping to oz. 4 of them wont go over the magic $1k import limit either.

Now I just have to figure out what tyres I am going to run on them....

Mactype · Postby **Mactype** » Sat Sep 15, 2007 7:14 pm

+36 and I've not paid any duty - although the last rim is still in customs and won't be delivered till mon-tues.

Rob E · Postby **Rob E** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 8:49 am

Im really starting to like these wheels. Looks wise i would prefer RPF1 however an extra inch of width for only a 1.4kg penalty and about 500 bucks cheaper than RPF1 15x7 are real positives.

I hear Emilio recommends a 225/45/15 on these, what tyres do you intend to run?

Daz · Postby **Daz** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:08 am

Rob E wrote:I hear Emilio recommends a 225/45/15 on these, what tyres do you intend to run?

I was going to run emilio's recommended nitto tyres, but i read some good and bad reviews on them. I ordered 225/50/15 A048 for the rear and will run 205 at the front... not sure how thats all going to work out for me but we will see !

timk · Postby **timk** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 11:54 am

Very nice!

AB7 · Postby **AB7** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 2:32 pm

Nice rims...BTW any of you considered putting in 235? Check out Goodwin racing forum, there's a few guys with 8\" with rims with 235, depending on the offset, apparently you won't find much issue.

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Sun Sep 16, 2007 9:40 pm

Man these are hot rims....My only worry would be clearance problems. On the rear it mightnt be such a problem, however on the front it looks like it would...

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 10:40 am

Daz, what are you driving in the States?

Fuzzlet · Postby **Fuzzlet** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 12:21 pm

Interesting....I do wanna replace the wheels on the SE....

Daz · Postby **Daz** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 1:20 pm

bruce wrote:Daz, what are you driving in the States?

We are living right in downtown San Francisco and I mostly fly for work, so no car purchase as yet. There are a lot of options though at prices that would make us cry in Australia... for now we use these guys when we need transport and its a brilliant service :

http://www.zipcar.com

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 2:25 pm

zipcars looks really interesting. Bit like the push-bike sharing in some places.

Daz · Postby **Daz** » Mon Sep 17, 2007 3:09 pm

bruce wrote:zipcars looks really interesting. Bit like the push-bike sharing in some places.

If you live downtown, zipcars are hard to go past... they are ridiculously cheap, we probably only spend the cost of just parking our own car each month ! We live within a block of at least 10 zipcars and there are 2 other companies if we wanted a bigger selection.

The best thing is that they recently added a bunch of brand new 328i's (which actually run the 3lt from our 330i and not a 2.8 as the badge suggests). For $25 more a day than a Honda Civic, it has to be the rental car deal of the century. All the things I have read about the BMW 3lt 6cyl are true.