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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #15 on: January 20, 2012, 10:51:09 AM »

Bargain for sure! Hope to see them soon... ;D
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #16 on: January 21, 2012, 10:30:40 PM »

When you take into consideration how rare these wheels are, I'd say you did very well , and they do look to be in fantastic condition  .
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #17 on: January 22, 2012, 12:57:50 PM »

is say 850 euros for your wheels (with tyres i asume) is a good price, still a good price if it was just for the wheels
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #18 on: January 22, 2012, 01:34:46 PM »

Advertised at that but paid €600 with 2 tyres! Total bargain :)

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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2012, 05:17:57 PM »

I believe jealousy is a green colour 8)

Love those wheels so much.
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #20 on: March 11, 2012, 09:21:37 PM »

Finally on the car today, wearing 205/45R17 tires on all four wheels. I would have loved 225/40 for the rear, but hey, these were all i could find..for now ;D



Tomorrow, a wash :D

Wish me luck avoiding potholes! ???
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #21 on: March 11, 2012, 09:25:07 PM »

Lookin good Alex...and I have a feeling they will be a lot stronger and less prone
to flat spotting than the Monoblock VI's.....(mind you, nearly any wheel is stronger then them !)  :o
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #22 on: March 11, 2012, 09:28:46 PM »

I'm affraid not, two of them were already egg shaped and they had done very few miles before i bought them... Oval as hell, tech took 1 hour to straighten them, and relieved me of ~50 euros just for that. But...i love them anyway :-*
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #23 on: March 11, 2012, 09:31:42 PM »

Shame - but at least they're fixed now!

There's plenty of lovely space between the spokes to show off your brake calipers once you paint them... hint hint ;)
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #24 on: March 11, 2012, 09:32:24 PM »

Oooooeeerrrrrr ! !   
maybe run the tyres a little under pressure so that they have more 'give'....
or as you said...avoid the potholes.
Shame you can't have a bag or sack of rubble/stones/sand and drop a handful into any that
you see as you are passing...to sort of fill them in for next time !
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #25 on: March 11, 2012, 09:35:01 PM »

Shame you can't have a bag or sack of rubble/stones/sand and drop a handful into any that
you see as you are passing...to sort of fill them in for next time !

Genius idea... we should all carry a bag of gravel and an expanding rubber foam to patch any potholes we find.

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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #26 on: March 11, 2012, 09:42:44 PM »

Yeah, i wonder how orrange would look, so they match my KTM orange Hell brake lines :) and my orange (well brick red) interior.

Non brabus forfours have very small brake discs, just 256mm on the front, and you can barely see them :) But mine are still the original ones, so at over 100K miles, they are a bit rustty as well, so they'll need changing to if I'm going to sport such lovely wheels :)

Great ideea CrazyG,  I'll go on my bike ahead of each trip, fill all the potholes, then come back and take the car :) Might be faster than to drive slow enough to avoid all of them, Romanian roads aren't all that smooth.

I run 2.2 atm. to get a feel of them, they're weight (unfortunately tires are RFT, so v heavy but no need for a spare tire) and how the car handles. Braking distance has INCREASED massively, where as before i would barely touch the pedal to stop from 50kph, now i have to really mash the pedal to stop. Acceleration has suffered also... as will MPG i susspect.

I am now thinking of lightening the flywheel to offset this increased rolling mass..but í think i may just bin these tires and get something softer, lighter, and start carying a spare. No punctures in my life so far, but i would'n want to get one now..
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #27 on: March 11, 2012, 09:58:45 PM »

Does make the brake discs look tiny, I noticed on JJ's brabus pics that the rear discs look really small with the 17 inch alloys, maybe time to find some 280mm ones. LOVING THOSE WHEELS!
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #28 on: March 11, 2012, 10:11:20 PM »

Orange calipers will be awesome - and I've never seen them before
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Re: 100.000 miles late Xmas present
« Reply #29 on: March 13, 2012, 06:51:44 PM »

It never rains but it pours was it? :-\



My latest addition to an unecessary wheel collection.

OZ Racing Ultraleggera in Gold. 17x7, lighter by 0.5-0.7kg than the grandlines. Not much, but with appropriate tires (205/40R17 this time) they will be fantastic and i will regain the "performance" lost with the 205/45R17 on the heavier grandlines. I used qutes so brab owners would not laugh at me because i have a 1.3 and talk about performance:P
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