Wheels - Your thoughts?

[Frenchy]

Silver D90's for me or 16" Teledials, picture 3 look way to modern IMO to suit the 944.

 

[Black Beauty]

Cookies look best. But then i would say that![8D] If pushed, no 1 or 3

 

[Veerzigzag]

Mrs Nutter is spot on.

 

[andy watson]

Mrs Nutter and my good lady have the same wheel tendencies! [] And with all the other posts and views........ leads to Cup 1's with black spokes and small spacers which is what I thought before I asked you lot [] Unless anyone has a set of 16" Tele's I can borrow............[][]

 

[924nutter]

a 6 x16 et 52,3 Cup 1 wheel is £424.23 plus vat from Porsche. Although an option from the 964 parts list it has a 944 part number. I had been searching for a 17 x 7.5 et 52 and trawled all the PET options and could not find one listed. As luck would have it my wheels don't seem to be OEM, and then a guy called JGC Porsche who has just started up in Brackley offered a matching wheel for sale on a well known auction site, and I snapped it up for £250.

 

[924nutter]

ORIGINAL: Black Beauty Cookies look best. But then i would say that![8D] If pushed, no 1 or 3

I thought the more lumpy front of the 1982-1985 really suited the look of the cookie cutters and in fact the 944 I did the head gasket on had colour coded wheel centres in a nice aubergine colour, and it looked nice

 

[ChasR]

ORIGINAL: zcacogp Cup1's in 16inch are a long way short of the beauty of Cup1's in 17inch. Funny how the slight difference in size makes them so much less attractive. Oli.

I do agree there (slightly biased I admit!) but for some reason the Cup 1s seem to work IMO, even if they are a little small. 17" Cup 1s would be lovely but the 16s are fine. The D90s work well as they do with any 944 but for me they would either have to be silver or black. Maybe if the rim was was polished where it is now silver may my opinion be changed . The final set of wheels look a little awkward on your 944 but not terrible .

 

[Copperman05]

Probably the wrong offset but I think the perfect look for your car would be cookie cutters. I love cup 1's but on a black car they may be a little lost, also your tyre walls look very drab and grey, compare these to the ones on the white car and the wheels look much better, this and coloured centres add contrast. Wheel choice to me largely depends on the colour of your car, personally I find silver wheels and gold paint clash, where as black wheels do not. Red cars with black wheels also look great. Other body colours with black wheels can look wrong. I used to be a 16' only person but since putting 17' wheels on my car to allow for greater track day tyre choice the look and size is growing on me and I may be even preferring the look, I guess it depends on what your used to, what you think is acceptable on a 25 year old car, what Porsche did for the road and what influences have come from motorsport. Edd

 

[timmyturtle]

I like the black ones myself. Really dont like the third ones

 

[david924s]

I would be the Cups for me but maybe painted a darker shade of grey I also agree that the 17" cup1s look better than the 16" but I would say that (I have them on mine so am biased)

 

[aporschefan]

From the 3 choices, I would choose cup 1 wheels. Although, and I may be in the minority here, I prefer cup 2 much more.

 

[944 man]

Are we getting ourselves confused here? There are no 17" Cup wheels. Cup wheels are 16" only and Cup 1 wheels onwards were available in 17" fitments. Andy has a set of 968 Cup wheels (which I like), but John's Cabriolet appears to have a set of Cup 1s. Simon

 

[944 man]

Theres a bit of a 'Cup wheel myth' which rankles me. Their prices rose and rose with some people splitting sets and trying to sell them for £800+ a pair, which was comical (and contemptable, too). It seems to have revolved around their weight and their desirability for racing, but they arent actually that light! The wheels on my car (996.362.124.00 & 996.362.128.00) are terrible, but in the max racing fitment of 7" & 9" they are between one and two kilos per wheel lighter than Cup 1s and theyre in plentiful supply. Thats six kilos per car!!! Cup 2s were lighter than Cup 1s and Im pleased to see that there are enough people selling these for £250-£300 a set to stop the chancers from trying to elevate their prices too.

 

[Martin Sage]

Cup 1s look best Andy. I fancy them on mine but I go with Paul on this and would keep to original 15" teledials []

 

[924nutter]

ORIGINAL: 944 man Theres a bit of a 'Cup wheel myth' which rankles me. Their prices rose and rose with some people splitting sets and trying to sell them for £800+ a pair, which was comical (and contemptable, too). It seems to have revolved around their weight and their desirability for racing, but they arent actually that light! The wheels on my car (996.362.124.00 & 996.362.128.00) are terrible, but in the max racing fitment of 7" & 9" they are between one and two kilos per wheel lighter than Cup 1s and theyre in plentiful supply. Thats six kilos per car!!! Cup 2s were lighter than Cup 1s and Im pleased to see that there are enough people selling these for £250-£300 a set to stop the chancers from trying to elevate their prices too.

The parts guy at PC Reading told me that price for the 17 x 7.5 et 55 wheel designated for the 964 Carrera RS shoots up to close on a grand becasue although it is of indentical design, it is made from magesium. Did you realise that the 996.362.124.00 wheel is designated "for winter use" and that there is a .01 wheel which is identical in all other respects apart from the winter designation, what ever the sinificnce of that is.

 

[edh]

ORIGINAL: 944 man Are we getting ourselves confused here? There are no 17" Cup wheels. Cup wheels are 16" only and Cup 1 wheels onwards were available in 17" fitments. Andy has a set of 968 Cup wheels (which I like), but John's Cabriolet appears to have a set of Cup 1s. Simon

So are you suggesting the correct descriptions are 968 Cups (16") 993 Cups? (16") Cup 1 (17") Cup 2 (17") []

 

[944 man]

I have to admit that I Googled for the part numbers, so the last two characters mightnt be correct. The Magnesiumm wheels are beautiful, but unfortunately the over-priced Cup 1s havent been off 964RSs...

 

[944 man]

ORIGINAL: edh

ORIGINAL: 944 man Are we getting ourselves confused here? There are no 17" Cup wheels. Cup wheels are 16" only and Cup 1 wheels onwards were available in 17" fitments. Andy has a set of 968 Cup wheels (which I like), but John's Cabriolet appears to have a set of Cup 1s. Simon

So are you suggesting the correct descriptions are 968 Cups (16") 993 Cups? (16") Cup 1 (17") Cup 2 (17") []

Cup Cup 1 Cup 2 From memory all of the Cup wheels have a 944 part number, even those in 911 only (6") sizes. Likewise all Cup 1s are 965. numbers and all Cup 2s 993. )

 

[Veerzigzag]

Herewith one of my front wheels, which I thought were Cup 1's, size 16x7 ET55, part no 944 362 116 00 £250 for a set (rears are 16x8) then a refurb in epoxy powder cost £75 each

 

[924nutter]

So we're all in agreement then, like normal we can't agree on anything, but the Cup1 does seem to be trending. A few posts back someone suggested a darker silver and I could go with that, but black centres are just too dark for me, unless you are trying to build a stealth car but don't you need an lateraly oscillating red light on the front for that? I think the trouble with centres darker than the tyre is that it makes the tyre seem really drab.