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those don't look too bad, 1600 delivered isn't awesome though

BUT, just found out they're made in the Philippines

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you get what u pay for, don't u think if there was a decent brand that only cost a bit over $1k in aus everyone would buy them?

cheap wheels are cheap because they were made cheaply, if you want a decent wheel ull either have to spend more $$ or go 2nd hand. plenty of quality wheels around in the 1.2k mark.

have a look around at your local importer. Most of them get in some decent rims to fill out containers.

I got my last set of 17x9 sterns from otomoto for $550 or there abouts. they're a bit rough and not super light but for a track rim they do the job and have handled heaps of abuse.

Prior to that i got some desmonds (not great but again a decent brand) from importbitz for around the 600 mark, and i know my old white ssr indy 500's originally came through importbitz as well though i bought them off a mate. They were around the 700 mark.

Unfortunately 4 stud makes it a bit harder to find good offset wheels.

Start trawling the NS for sale section i suppose.

Thanks guys, see what I can turn up. I'm onto some Volks for around the 700 mark at the moment, see how we go.

I'm keen as but we'll see what happens, maybe it's third time lucky. Yep that's right, this will be the third attempt.... First set where advertised as 114.3s and were 100s, the second set were advertised as 8" all round and when I got there (3hrs each way to melb) the fronts were 7" wide... despite me confirming details and getting pics etc.

Fingers crossed!

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