Re: Wheels

[MIKE <lerb@redrose.net>]

What are some German and others you would suggest?



At 11:10 AM 10/27/97 +0100, you wrote:
>About bending rims, buy good quality german rims or BBS. Don't buy italian or
>english. The quality on german rims seems to be very good, also the
fitting. When
>you put the tire on, if the tire-man know his job you don't have to have
so many
>weights on the wheel. Running over a lost muffler from the car in front of
me in
>70km/h with no damage to the 16" AEZ, needed to adjust my wheel settings
slightly
>after. Whil go back to 15" to next summer because of rubbing.
>
>A. Bjorkheim wrote:
>
>> >   Are the people who want 17" rims worried about bending rims? I've
bent 15"
>> > rims, and even 14" rims on potholes. If I were to get more rims, I
MIGHT go
>> > to 15x7, as it did give it a nice look, and I could tell a pretty big
perf.
>> > difference between 15" rims and 13" rims. But I would not consider
anything
>> > larger, as bending a rim seems all to easy even on a 15" rim. On a
larger rim,
>> > with a bit shorter sidewall, it would seem that bending a rim would be
>> > a regular occurence. For the people with these big rims, are your roads
>> > super smooth, or do you just drive extremely slowly to keep from
bending the
>> > rims? Have any of you bent rims?
>> >
>>      Bending rims was no worry for me.  Fortunatly the roads in my area
>> are quite nice.  It is only when I get near the Seattle area that they
>> turn to complete sh*t.  Never had a bent rim, only flat tires.
>>
>>  Andre'
>>
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