Best type of aftermarket wheels?

[teddylong]

Hey all, new to this.

Thinking about upgrading to some aftermarket alloys... any recommendations?

 

[Ad Lav]

Welcome

Any pics of the car they are going onto?

What do you like - multispoke, OEM, deep dish, lightweight?

 

[hon_n_gem]

how lightweight is lightweight....

any performance advantages of them!?

 

[Ad Lav]

8kg a wheel instead of 15kg a wheel...

Better cornering I heard

Pass otherwise! Most track cars use them...

 

[Ibiza 130 tdi]

Lightweight and sexual!

http://www.kei-wheels.co.uk/?gclid=CPminZbNyJECFQ_yXgodbW2v0A

 

[Poverty]

Its all about the lightweight alloys. I dont understand the people that buy new alloys that are heavier than their old ones and then just decrease their fun factor!

 

[Guinness]

it increases their cruise factor lol

 

[ross p]

i got a set of BBS Paragons and they weigh an absolute ton

need to get them replaced with something smaller and lighter in the next 6 months

 

[hon_n_gem]

hmmm...ill invest one day!

 

[R1dd1ck]

Square wheels are fun! you can't drive anywhere but they look funny!

 

[Guinness]

should sell those square wheels at halfords. For all those chavs who need to be diffrent, would solve all our problems they would be stuck in halfords car park out of the way, whilst happy they look diffrent.

 

[R1dd1ck]

yep! they are now called chavo squares!

Chavo-Squares! for that different look and feel! Improve your stationery performance and handbrake holding without puttin wear on your high pitched dump valve thats applied to your 1.2 N reg corsa with its 2 ton body kit!

 

[Guinness]

lmao, be sold out in seconds mate.

 

[R1dd1ck]

They have to be, at least there wunt be any chavtastics ont road anymore! although there wud be lots of tram lines int road from them tryin to drive it and not understanding why the wheel isn't going round properly!

 

[Fleggy]

They have to be, at least there wunt be any chavtastics ont road anymore! although there wud be lots of tram lines int road from them tryin to drive it and not understanding why the wheel isn't going round properly!

Lmao, i could actually picture them scratching their heads at that one lol.

I need some new alloys, i was wanting some cupra ones but didn't know how much they would cost and didn't know where to get any from. i don't mind the RS4 alloys like was thinking bout getting some of them, cheapest I've found em for are bout £700ish. is this a good price or not?

 

[Aimez]

lighter wheels as well as looking good and handleing better and reducing weight would make changing a wheel easier too!

 

[andycupra]

Lighter wheels can help both excelleration and braking.
They can also improve the right as the 'unsprung weight' weight of the car is reduced. However if you updrade from smaller wheels to larger alloys it could be worse as the tyre sidewall is reduced as well as the wheel being larger. If you get lightweight alloys this can offset much of this.