20" wheels from the good ole US of A, 285 35 20 tyres!!!!

Originally fitted to a 3.2 Quattro Audi TT Roadster (not original!!). It had been vandalised and tyres slashed, I now have to find a supplier of the tyres - Bugger! Thank Ron that the wheels were not damaged
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They look mint hope your chassis wont ride that high when its finished though Obviously youve only offered them up but is that the right side wheel? Ie tread direction??? You can pretend to be a gangster rapper now with wheels like that

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Do you think these would look nice?

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Too big for that type of car IMHO

properly pimpin

They probably weigh as much as the rest of the car...

And the tyres will cost as much as the rest of the car....

And the handling will be terrible...

(Just my 2p's worth).

Personally, I'd stick to some nice, light-weight 13" rims...

They look very much like chrisw's rubber bands fitted to his pug,only much shinier

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Originally posted by bob
They look very much like chrisw's rubber bands fitted to his pug,only much shinier

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imagine the wings

IMO...they look f******g awful......I absolutely hate chromed wheels....YUK...

Again...IMO...

a bit like the UK's MKV's but a bit more SPANGLEY

'orrible!

Don't know about the wheels, but I wish my garage looked like that.

look awful in my opinion, but each to their own.

Ok, if you iz part of the Staines massive.
Respec ! Aye!
seriously, mine breaks away quick enough on 15's, god knows what yhey would be like.





i]Originally posted by Mark Allanson
20" wheels from the good ole US of A, 285 35 20 tyres!!!!

Originally fitted to a 3.2 Quattro Audi TT Roadster (not original!!). It had been vandalised and tyres slashed, I now have to find a supplier of the tyres - Bugger! Thank Ron that the wheels were not damaged [/quote

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Originally posted by Mark Allanson
Thank Ron that the wheels were not damaged

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I don't like them either. As for Ron being elevated to god status I think he might have to go to a few confessions first and say a couple of hundred Hail Mary's and some benedictus sanctus I can beat you at dominoes. I think we might be able to get him in as a Jedi master at the next census if we all fill in that we worship at the altar of the great Profit Champion.

P.S. I know it's spelt wrong but it's more fitting.

"Don't know about the wheels, but I wish my garage looked like that."

I wish it was my garage - its a quiet corner of the mech shop at work, right next to the Hunter Computerised 4 wheel alignment system!!

I HATE the wheels, typical brash stateside stuff, but very impressive, they weigh almost nothing, the owner imported them as a one off, looks like I am going to have to do the same with the tyres! (centre caps are really cheap plastic, more like packaging quality than wheels)

Whew Mark, I'm glad you said you hated them. I was really worried that your taste had been corrupted by the MTV scene bling-bling crowd...

Those rims are gawd awful! I see so many black Cadillac Escalades with those damn rims around here. It makes me sick. What drives people to buy this crap? Aaarchhh yechhhh.

Graber

And please, Pleeeez... We are not all like what you see on TV and somehow think is typical! I hate that shite!

[Edited on 3/25/04 by sgraber]

Horrid - nuff said

How much do you want for them Mark? Would look good on my Pug!

(I'm joking by the way - my 18s are big enough!)

Chris

We know you secretly dream of wheels like this Chris

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When I was down at Pug Performance last weekend they had a 306 hatch on 20s. The chap described it as "offer up the wheels, cut round the edge, then get the metal bashing guy to knock up some arches to cover them"

Looked truely.... stupid. Never believed it before but yes, wheels really can be too big

I'll try and sneak a photo on the phone next time I'm down there

Chris

[Edited on 27/3/04 by ChrisW]

This is the kind of wheels I see on Hummer H2's(slammed) with 120db"s of bowel moving hip hop bass and something about the rappers "BEEOTCH"........

Nobody with a fast car has this kind of wheels over here...only the "drive it like ya stole it" bling bling crowd....Oh,and maybe Jerry Springer...

I eventually got some tyres for the sodding wheels, Michelins at a mere 270+VAT EACH!!!,
now the trye fitter does not think he can fit them without damaging the nice chrome rims.

I am REALLY STARTING TO HATE THESE WHEELS!!

Next thing is that the wheel bolts are not long enough to give more than 32 turns, the owner expects the insurance company to pay for replacements, their reply was quote 'You will not be insured to drive the car until correct bolts have been fitted at your expense' That means we will have to trailor the car back to him, and it is too low to drive on! - he has done 5000 miles with bolts only just caught on the threads (SVA seems a good idea for others, not just us!)


ChrisW - stick with 17"

Try Speed Shack (.co.uk) for the wheel nuts/bolts. Steve has all sorts of wierd and wonderful mix and match stuff. He managed to find me a set of 16 bolts with Pug thread, Ford domed heads, and 20mm longer than normal - and off the shelf while I waited!

Chris

I don't want to get involved with the bolts (thanks for the tip anyway), cor the insurance company assessor is a bit of a coward and will not OK anything unless he has it in writing that his ass is covered. I told the 19 year old owner(!!!) that he should get hold of the wheel manufacturer to supply bolts to match his car. The TT will handle like a dog with these on, all the geometry is upset, the germans spent ages getting it right (after getting it 'wrong' fist time - not really).

The original TT's were great, they would oversteer exactly how you wanted them to, but so many hairdressers had accidents that Audi were forced to change the handling to simulate a Nissan Stanza to make them 'safe'

bling bling!