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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 12:59 pm

Hey guys,

Just an invite to check out my blog have been writing it for about a month..

check it out give me some feedback :)

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Postby Shrike » Thu Dec 01, 2011 1:48 pm

I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear

with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's
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Postby solitaire » Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:50 pm

safe for work? Platinum wheels facebook page, while excellent has far too much scattered ass on it for me to view at work :lol:
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:33 pm

solitaire wrote:safe for work? Platinum wheels facebook page, while excellent has far too much scattered ass on it for me to view at work :lol:


yes work approved :)
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 3:34 pm

Shrike wrote:I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear


with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's


what car is this?
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Postby cogent » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:02 pm

here are two things that immediately strike me as being worthy of mentioned for feedback.

1) you're using your business name, but not your businesses domain. I would suggest spending the couple hours it will take to learn how to migrate it to a wordpress install on blog.platinumwheels.co.nz (or whatever your domain is). Just looks and appears a bit more professional, plus wordpress is really, really flexible as a platform and later on down the track you will be able to use it to improve functionality of the blog.

2) The content is really jumbled and messy, instead of having images left-justified then right-justified amongst the text, have them act as a spacer between paragraphs.
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Postby BZG Wagon » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:20 pm

Where are the babes? :(
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Postby Shrike » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:21 pm

tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear


with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's


what car is this?


An ae111 with gt4 hubs :p
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:28 pm

cogent wrote:here are two things that immediately strike me as being worthy of mentioned for feedback.

1) you're using your business name, but not your businesses domain. I would suggest spending the couple hours it will take to learn how to migrate it to a wordpress install on blog.platinumwheels.co.nz (or whatever your domain is). Just looks and appears a bit more professional, plus wordpress is really, really flexible as a platform and later on down the track you will be able to use it to improve functionality of the blog.

2) The content is really jumbled and messy, instead of having images left-justified then right-justified amongst the text, have them act as a spacer between paragraphs.


Yeah we are currently building the new web site. we will be jamming it all into that site.

2) thats the point of a blog.. a little text a little words, it not a book or essay... just my ramblings on cars :D
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:29 pm

Shrike wrote:
tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear


with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's


what car is this?


An ae111 with gt4 hubs :p


Well to be frank, you are dreaming.

No wheel supplier would ever bring wheels in those fitments in, youd never sell them.

best suggestion is use adaptors with some 5x100 to 5x114 adaptors then get some 18x9 wheels. even do 18x9 front and 18x10 rears
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Postby cogent » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:32 pm

tsoob wrote:
2) thats the point of a blog.. a little text a little words, it not a book or essay... just my ramblings on cars :D


Yes I understand that, but all I'm saying is that the way yours is presented is not exactly natural to follow.

Here's an example entry from my own blog, http://cabrafornia.com/2011/10/project- ... -fixation/

The content flows the same way your eyes do, and it's consistent.
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Postby Shrike » Thu Dec 01, 2011 4:35 pm

tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:
tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear


with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's


what car is this?


An ae111 with gt4 hubs :p


Well to be frank, you are dreaming.

No wheel supplier would ever bring wheels in those fitments in, youd never sell them.

best suggestion is use adaptors with some 5x100 to 5x114 adaptors then get some 18x9 wheels. even do 18x9 front and 18x10 rears


You could run them on the gt4 celica and the subarus just means you need to run the gaurds etc wider

I have been priced up a set of custom rims but at 3700usd delivered there not cheap
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Postby rollaholic » Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:28 pm

crazy custom look = crazy custom price!
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 5:50 pm

Shrike wrote:
tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:
tsoob wrote:
Shrike wrote:I agree about your comments on rims however there is still nothing out there for people like me that dont drive an out of the box car

I want 18x9" rims in 5x100 and +15mm at the front and 0mm at the rear so I can widen my car (I dont want spacers) closest I can get is wolfs
http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/car-par ... 971383.htm
that are 18X8 and 27mm all round which means I only have to roll/flare/lip my front and rear gaurds out 34mm more and I plan on running custom widened front gaurds and bare metal widen the rear

52mm wider at the front
67mm wider at the rear


with the custom rims means ill have 29mm clearence to my shocks and have my car nice and wide low and staunch with 245's


what car is this?


An ae111 with gt4 hubs :p


Well to be frank, you are dreaming.

No wheel supplier would ever bring wheels in those fitments in, youd never sell them.

best suggestion is use adaptors with some 5x100 to 5x114 adaptors then get some 18x9 wheels. even do 18x9 front and 18x10 rears


You could run them on the gt4 celica and the subarus just means you need to run the gaurds etc wider



not at that offset. i have 18x9.5 at 35p 5x100 and thats pushing it.

yeah thats what custom wheels cost.
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Postby tsoob » Thu Dec 01, 2011 7:19 pm

cogent wrote:
tsoob wrote:
2) thats the point of a blog.. a little text a little words, it not a book or essay... just my ramblings on cars :D


Yes I understand that, but all I'm saying is that the way yours is presented is not exactly natural to follow.

Here's an example entry from my own blog, http://cabrafornia.com/2011/10/project- ... -fixation/

The content flows the same way your eyes do, and it's consistent.


point taken.. stay tuned for next week :)
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Postby nz_climber » Thu Dec 01, 2011 8:32 pm

cogent wrote:


Here's an example entry from my own blog, http://cabrafornia.com/2011/10/project- ... -fixation/



Nice Blog, really easy to read, I think the style of writing helps a lot too, will have to add it to my bookmarks!
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Postby cogent » Fri Dec 02, 2011 8:51 pm

Cheers. I've been a bit slack with content lately, have been too busy doing stuff instead of writing about stuff. Check back in the next few weeks, should be a big dump of the last 5 or 6 weeks where I've had media passes at ss2000 style events, chilled in the radical corp suite at eastern creek club days, pit crewed for a 300km enduro race and replaced a rb25det headgasket under deadline before a 2day drift event!
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Postby tsoob » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:19 pm

New post today..


http://platinumwheelsnz.blogspot.com/

Cogent, more what you mean??
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Postby 1I1 » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:28 pm

That looks good Nick!

Would you consider possibly looking at changing your home page so that instead of it coming up with each story in full it could be more of a leader to each story. Would be a very speedhunters etc but just means the reader can flick past stories if they don't appear to be something they want to read then.
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Postby tsoob » Wed Dec 07, 2011 3:51 pm

hmmm il look into that...
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