Love them. It’s been raining here and the car is totaly predictable. No matter how hard I push it, it just wants more. They are a bit heavy though.
I’m getting mine put on tomorrow. Need to dismount summers and put snows on my silver wheels…and balance…and that’s not happening in my garage.
My Ti wheels arrived and while putting them on the car (I put them on for a week to make sue they were straight/balanced) I noticed some wheels weights on the floor. Didn’t know which wheel they came off, and they were all on the car already. So I drove the car, but sure enough…one wheel is out of balance. Fucking vibrations. So I’ll need to get a good look at which one is missing weights when they come off tomorrow and the winter set goes on.
on for a week
Ive got a nice light set of shiny new Enkei’s with brand new conti rubber sitting in cali right now 
I guess the downside is I will never actually feel the difference they make in comparison to my old heavy ass RS4 reps…
Ill try to dig up a pic somewhere!
Sorry for the necrobump but my brain is beginning to hurt. Using this http://www.miata.net/garage/tirecalc.html I’m trying to figure out what the optimum tyre size would be for a 17" wheel/tyre combo (for speed) for a B6 S4 with the stock brakes.
My 17" winters are 225-50-17 = 81.2 in circumference.
My 18" stock Avus/summers are 235-40-18 = 79.8 in circumference.
Have I got this right? That means my winter wheel setup is actually slightly larger than my summers.
The 245-45-17 setup above looks good (in keeping with my sleeper look) that comes out as a 80.7in circumference. So the question is 17" OZ ultraleggera with 245-45-17 or 18" OZ ultraleggera with 235-40-18 or stop being such a baby and get the 17" with 225-45-17?
235/40/17!!!
Your optimum tyre size is actually 235/45 R17
This is with in 0.2" of your stock 18"s
Also this is the stock A4 3.0 tyre size and not to mention my stock tyre size also!!
245 would be nice though…meatier and with the right size, could help the gearing out
245.40.18 was 25.7" (0.3" or 1% over standard 25.4", thus worse slightly for gearing)
245.40.17 would be 24.7 (0.7" under standard 25.4, thus better for gearing)
Thanks guys, that’s very helpful.
Any views on 17x7 vs 17x7.5 (the B5 stock size I believe, so fairly common?) vs 17x8?
7 or 7.5 is lighter but too bitch looking. Go 8 or 8.5
R8 reps 18X8 (or 8.5) 18.5lbs a piece.
17x7/17x7.5 more bitch looking? Might work for me, I’m trying to make my car look less S4-ish and more sleeper 
81: Nice, which R8 reps?
Don’t really have any good pics of the rims so these will have to do.
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd384/81bear1/photo-R8.jpg
http://i1217.photobucket.com/albums/dd384/81bear1/R8_Wheel.jpg
I thought I’d throw out the TSW Nurburgring into the mix after saki brought them up in the photo thread. According to the mfr website, the 18’s are about 18-19 lbs.
I was going to pull the trigger on some used 17" BBS RC’s.
they’re clloser to 19lbs because the aggressive offset means a bunch more material (something I’ve learned is that wheel manufacturers always quote weight based on highest positive offset possible i.e. least hub material/lightest configurationl possible).
TSW Nurburgrings looks a bit like the VMR710…but just marginally less nice for some reason. In gunmetal though this would be a good price for a light wheel (I think they’re like $800 a set for 18x8.5 ET32).
I just picked up a set of BBS RC’s (17x7.5, ET 35) from the C5 2.7T A6 Sport Package I believe. They weigh 9.0kg/19.8lb each.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/6885/img20120127101305.jpg
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/3056/bsrc.jpg
There are lighter wheels out there but I was looking for something more OEM. I’m thinking of wrapping them in either Michelin Pilot Super Sports (similar to PA2’s which I had on my old A3, awesome tyre) or Hankook V12’s which are cheap but people seem to like. Having just picked up some iPike winters, I am so far impressed with Hankook. Either of those should put be at about 41-42 lbs per corner.
Stock Avus with Falken FK 452 for reference at 23.3kg/51.4lbs:
http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/6898/img20120127101409.jpg
So hopefully I’ll save about 10 lbs per corner.
Nice wheels, I have to say Audi have some damn good looking OEM wheels.