X5 rims on the Z, for all those who thought it cant be done!
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They don't quite work for me but respect to you for trying something different and for taking all comments on the chin. Some lesser members would have deleted their account by now after the amount of negatives.
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Great look, keep them in silver
These are the second set of wheels recently which has flipparood my long established wheel preferences after Marius 6 series wheels - also
Great effort guys
ps. It also kind of reminds me of Audi TT's wearing Bentley alloys, which I strangely like, even though TT's are not my thing
These are the second set of wheels recently which has flipparood my long established wheel preferences after Marius 6 series wheels - also
Great effort guys
ps. It also kind of reminds me of Audi TT's wearing Bentley alloys, which I strangely like, even though TT's are not my thing
That would look excellent with the concaves at the front also!
the problem is its unsprung weight, which makes a huge differenceESP said:
I don't understand all the negative comments, they look great and unique!!
I don't see that there should be any major weight issue either?
Your talking a matter of a couple of extra KG's, less than the difference in some drivers on here
or a bag of shopping?
But i like them too!
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ESP said:
I don't understand all the negative comments, they look great and unique!!
I don't see that there should be any major weight issue either?
Your talking a matter of a couple of extra KG's, less than the difference in some drivers on here
or a bag of shopping?
Are you kidding about weight?
Set aside the looks, which on balance I think most people really like.
These wheels represent an increase in unsprung weight of 7kg or another way 15%. That's quite significant. As posted it's unsprung weight, so has nothing to do with a bag of shopping.
Think of that weight as a gyroscope. Spin a kids toy one weighing <100g up and try to stop or turn it. Now try that with 7kgs spinning at the equivelant of 60mph to 100mph and try to stop or turn that...
It will have a significant effect on performance and has already been noted as weighting the steering, but add to that reduced acceleration, reduced braking and increased wheel hop under hard acceleration. The benefit (though not a Zed priority) is reduced noise and vibration damping.
cj10jeeper said:ESP said:
I don't understand all the negative comments, they look great and unique!!
I don't see that there should be any major weight issue either?
Your talking a matter of a couple of extra KG's, less than the difference in some drivers on here
or a bag of shopping?
Are you kidding about weight?
Set aside the looks, which on balance I think most people really like.
These wheels represent an increase in unsprung weight of 7kg or another way 15%. That's quite significant. As posted it's unsprung weight, so has nothing to do with a bag of shopping.
Think of that weight as a gyroscope. Spin a kids toy one weighing <100g up and try to stop or turn it. Now try that with 7kgs spinning at the equivelant of 60mph to 100mph and try to stop or turn that...
It will have a significant effect on performance and has already been noted as weighting the steering, but add to that reduced acceleration, reduced braking and increased wheel hop under hard acceleration. The benefit (though not a Zed priority) is reduced noise and vibration damping.
In fact I have a set of 17s which once again transform the car from the 18s.
The downside is less traction due to less contact path at the rear tyres since they are skinnier which however I reduce by less camber.
shawna said:
Off topic, but this explains some mildly disturbing behaviour I noticed on my winter 17s the other day - 11 degrees (too warm for the tyres, I know), slightly damp but not wet roads, and gentle acceleration from stationary at lights = the traction control light flickered all the way into 2nd and I wiggled my way away from the lights at low speed. Not happened since, but I didn't notice this at all last year. Must be because I had an alignment done on my 18s in the summer when I had Eibachs fitted, haven't had it re-done for my 17s (does anybody ?) and so the camber has resulted in less grip. Logical if I'd thought about it :roll:
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