Nice wheels btw. I have always loved those.
x2, tires diminish in value with use similarly to condoms
Ahahahaha
I bought Dunlop wintersport tires for 850 and after 300 miles I decided to sell them. After 4 months on the market, they finally sold on ebay for $300 shipped. I made 180 after shipping and fees
for reference: BBS CH 19x8.5 with Pilot Super Sport 245/35ZR19
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r594/thenewbruno2/CIMG1141_zpsedc8777e.jpg
That’s food info. Those tires are around 23lbs I reckon so the wheels must be in the 26 range which is decent.
They look great.
Nice light set up!
Ya, keep the PSS since they are the better tire, Sale the yokos and dont look back. Looks like you have shaved about 10lbs off the stock setup right there which are 29lbs each for the tire and wheel.
Now simply adjust your stance as needed by lowering and bolt-on spacers for an ideal look!
spacers will be needed for sure. probably 10 all around. We will see when we mount them up this week.
So here’s how all of this came about. Bought the car in January. It had come into the dealer on trade with new sottozeroes on the peelers but no summer tires. So Pfaff Audi was kind enough to supply me the new set of Yokohama Avid Envigors (after having lead me to believe they’d give me an OEM set lol.) I was this close to mounting the Yokos on the peelers for this summer and getting wheels next year. Actually I had my appointment booked but called it off the morning of because we were supposed to get that snow or ice storm or whatever a few weeks ago.
Enter the BBS CH with PSS 80% tread for $2000
Just sold the Yokos for $500 and since I was this close to going through with doing a tire swap winter/summer and flushing $400 down the toilet I’ll factor that in too this one time…so I’m at $1100 cost on the wheels and tires. Feeling pretty darn good
sketchy…
LOL typo
Saki - “which, the 80 or the 90?”
I vote for 75-80% based on your pics posted above
So I posted those pics April 20th. They’re still not on the car yet. So I guess this is now a cautionary tale for those considering a purchase of 2nd hand BBS wheels.
First thing that happened was the seller provided me a set of hubcentric rings that he told me would get the wheels onto my car. The attempt at getting the wheels on at Saki’s place showed that the rings were wrong. I think they’re 66.56 down to 57. Meanwhile the bore of the wheels is 72.5, and BBS uses a proprietary Precision Fitting System or “PFS” that essentially complicates things for you because when you look up your wheel model to determine what size ring you need you’re told “PFS” rather than a number in millimeters.
Now the bad press for JRP - they’re a local BBS dealer in Mississauga but they won’t sell me a set of rings without spacers included, so to get myself hooked up with the rings I’m looking at $300 and 10mm spacers that I don’t want.
MTC Tire in Oakville will get me the rings but they say it’ll be $20/corner plus shipping and a two week wait while they come from BBS in Atlanta.
Luckily another Canadian BBS retailer (PG Performance in Surrey BC) knows wtf is going on unlike JRP and they have a set of the rings I need and they’ll expresspost them to me for $55 shipped. So the wheels should be on by early next week.
that’s mental.
FINALLY
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r594/thenewbruno2/photo_zpsb21e4607.jpg
http://i1173.photobucket.com/albums/r594/thenewbruno2/photo1_zpse51ad7f0.jpg
need better photos. Car looks weird with the darkness.
Can’t wait to put an OEM peeler/sottozero on the scale now. Hoping for 7lb/corner. Haven’t stepped on it yet though, just had a quick drive through traffic from the tire place back to work this morning.
Is it reasonable to believe that I felt a noticeable difference between Sottozero and Pilot Super Sport while rounding an on ramp (stuck behind someone else) going 50kph? I think I did.
Wheels look awesome. Too bad I didnt see your post earlier about the rings. Tire Rack supplies them for a very reasonable price. I just purchased a set of BBS REs, and needed the PFS rings. Tire Rack sold me the rings, with new clips, shipped and taxes for about $50. Shipping and taxes were more than the rings themselves.
BBS RE?>???
What size? Where’d you find them? I looked everywhere for a set.
Did you buy them from that Bruno guy or something? he had a set that I was tracking for a while. They were sold by siggiepop to another guy…then his car was stolen…then Bruno bought the car from insurance auction after it was found. Had 18x8 BBS RE on there and they only weighed around 18 lbs each.