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Postby TRD_TOY » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:13 pm

So i had a bit of an accident in my JZS161 Aristo and needed to get my rims replaced.

The Insurance company have come back to me with the following options. These will be 19" staggered.

Which ones do you guys think would suit my car best as they are different to what i originally had. i was sort of heading towards the Jarama or Stowes....

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Postby GTTpower » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:26 pm

Donnington. Prefer concave to dish personally (brake clearance is also a bonus), but its a VIP type car, could suit either.
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Postby Bling » Wed Sep 05, 2012 7:53 pm

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Postby Mr Revhead » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:12 pm

Only you can choose! Personally I think your choice sux and you should go with Mallory.
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Postby diss7 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:21 pm

Genuine JDM or bust.

You wouldn't buy a Chinese car, same should apply to the wheels.
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Postby duddley » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:25 pm

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Postby rollaholic » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:39 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:Only you can choose! Personally I think your choice sux and you should go with Mallory.


great minds think alike

i will specify mallory black though.
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Postby FST4RD » Wed Sep 05, 2012 8:56 pm

Mr Revhead wrote:Only you can choose! Personally I think your choice sux and you should go with Mallory.


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Postby wde_bdy » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:18 pm

I'm going for Mallory Black too, mainly because with DISH being the in thing at the moment you either need to be serious about it (which none of these options are) or not try for that look.

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Postby Dell'Orto » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:31 pm

Y U no SSR Professors?
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Postby tsoob » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:37 pm

diss1dent wrote:Genuine JDM or bust.

You wouldn't buy a Chinese car, same should apply to the wheels.


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Postby diss7 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 9:49 pm

tsoob wrote:
diss1dent wrote:Genuine JDM or bust.

You wouldn't buy a Chinese car, same should apply to the wheels.


Facepalm.


Of course you would face palm. I would too if my business revolved around buying wheels like the above for less than $50 a wheel and selling them for $200; cos they shiney and got mad dish yo.
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Postby tsoob » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:23 pm

diss1dent wrote:
tsoob wrote:
diss1dent wrote:Genuine JDM or bust.

You wouldn't buy a Chinese car, same should apply to the wheels.


Facepalm.


Of course you would face palm. I would too if my business revolved around buying wheels like the above for less than $50 a wheel and selling them for $200; cos they shiney and got mad dish yo.



If i could buy a wheel for $50 then I would not buy it.

You sir really have no idea about this. JDM yo brah

hear it all the time, story gets soooooo old.

Most of the wheels we sell are of a better quality than factory wheels.

If your car is worth 6-8k is it really worth spending the same amount on wheels?
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Postby Snoozin » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:23 pm

I was always under the impression TSW made a decent quality product, they've been around for decades (longer than SSR even, I think you'll find). South African origin I think?

Either way, all of those options are pretty horrible. I'd pick the Stowe silver if I had a gun against my head and was forced to choose one. Aristo's lend themselves well to a chunky wheel design.
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Postby diss7 » Wed Sep 05, 2012 10:42 pm

tsoob wrote:
diss1dent wrote:
tsoob wrote:
diss1dent wrote:Genuine JDM or bust.

You wouldn't buy a Chinese car, same should apply to the wheels.


Facepalm.


Of course you would face palm. I would too if my business revolved around buying wheels like the above for less than $50 a wheel and selling them for $200; cos they shiney and got mad dish yo.



If i could buy a wheel for $50 then I would not buy it.

You sir really have no idea about this. JDM yo brah

hear it all the time, story gets soooooo old.

Most of the wheels we sell are of a better quality than factory wheels.

If your car is worth 6-8k is it really worth spending the same amount on wheels?


If you're not buying them for $50 a wheel, then the person you are buying them off is.

I know what they cost, I nearly invested $50k into doing it about 6 years ago. Feel free to post up some of the part numbers on the boxes your wheels come in. Would not take me long to find a supplier I could get a price off and could then post publicly to prove my point?

Anyone with some time could do the same looking through alibaba.

Only reason I didn't pursue was I only had $50k at the time which does not buy many lines. Alot of the suppliers I was talking to at the time had MOQ of 200 wheels, per line. One line being one stud pattern (some were multi fit) one width one size one colour one style one offset. Even hainvg a couple of styles, couple of widths and offsets added up to 20 lines. That was significatly more commitment than I could make.

Don't mistake me for one of your naive customers. I bought a sample set of wheels in even after I had decided I couldn't expand into rims. I just want some cheap drift rims for my sil on the cheap. I recall the shipping was more than the wheels, and even then it was barely over $100 landed. Anyway, these wheels looked alright, but were soft as butter. Went over the rumble strip at Ruapuna and they bent; couldnt get them balanced after that.

I say get genuine for a reason.
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Postby Dell'Orto » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:07 pm

On actual inspection of those pics, I think Carthage in silver could look ok, if the offset is decent.
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Postby Bling » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:28 pm

Can we not do the wheel debate again? PM each other if you want to battle it out :wink:
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Postby TRD_TOY » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:29 pm

i did originally have a set of Volk Racing GT7's but unfortunately they cannot supply them anymore and are too damaged to repair....so this is the choice State insurance have given me.

Not normally the type of rims im in to, it sux but need to make a choice so i can get my car back on the road
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Postby Bling » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:40 pm

I guess it depends what's on your policy. But I would have thought you could replace them with rims that would be worth the same. They will of course give you lots of options that cost a lot less :wink:

If there are other Volk wheels you like perhaps pressure them into supplying those instead.
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Postby Mr Ree » Wed Sep 05, 2012 11:59 pm

Definitely ^

If I had Volks on my car, and had paid insurance premiums on them, then there is NO WAY in hell I would be settling for the proposed rims.

Simply dont settle for their offer, and tell them you want to find something of the same or better quality, as you shouldnt be forced to compromise on that, so they can save some money.

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