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what are these 15" and 16" things you talk of? How do you spell that? "W... E... A... K"?

18+ or GTFO. Your car is gonna stand out like a midget in purple pantaloons, do yourself a favour and make sure your wheels are just as outrageous.

lol It was the Sportmaxx 501s that I originally ordered (16x8 +15s...), but after waiting 2 months and being told I needed to wait another 6 weeks by the Aussie "supplier" apparently due to a second stuff up in the order from the warehouse in the US, I told him he could stick it and give me my money back. Feel free to PM me for the name of the company.

The problem I had with going too small is the massive radius of the guard lip, it tends to make smaller wheels look like shopping trolley wheels, regardless of how wide they are. The only solution with smaller diameters is to dump it stupidly low, which then makes it too impractical for every day use.

I ended up buying the white Meisters, which despite being 7" width (bear in mind the factory alloy is 5.5", the steelies are 5") should be cherry ripe for the offset. Now to hunt down a factory strip kit in white to match...

UGLY?

I really think you need to have another look,. modular one piece forged wheels extremely lightweight as used on some rather tasty European cars. Here is an example of an Audi R8 and a R35 GTR.

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Actually, while I have your attention for a moment, have you ever seen leather (MSpec) R34GTR seats come up at the auctions? Do you know a rough price I would be looking at?

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