Wheels

[appletonn]

Mine are 8.5" front and 10" rear with 225/40 and 265/35 respectively.

There is a little tramlining on heavily cambered roads, but no worse that my daily 3 series with its sports suspension and rock-hard runflat tyres!

The ride is very firm wth the Bilstein suspension that's been fitted so the thin sidewalls exacerbate that, but I'm running 32psi all round at the moment but may increase that slightly to 34psi all round and see how it feels.

 

[333pg333]

Well of course you could always get the KW's and not suffer such an uncomfortable ride and corner faster. hehehe

 

[appletonn]

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[Diver944]

Yes and yes.

Mmmm they do lhey look nice don't they []

 

[PJS917]

I am sure any good wheel refurber would be able to get that sort of a finish. Not very difficult to do.

 

[djcla]

jusr reuins the originalty of the alloy and i am assuming that once painted you can not get it back to original look easily, but they do look lush

 

[Diver944]

Course you can, you just paint it back to the original colour.

 

[djcla]

Are they painted in the first place , i just assumed they were just bare metal i have never realy given it much thought

 

[Diver944]

Yes, virtually all alloy wheels are painted.

There are a few that are anodized, or polished with a clear laquer but the vast majority are covered with a silver paint

 

[Hilux]

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[pauljmcnulty]

Check with John Barnatt, he used a place near me in Latimer, not far from Amersham, and was very happy with them.

You've not thought about going for Graphite like everyone else recently, then? Or, red for the CS look? Or mirror-polished for the blinged-up Range Rover look....[8|]

 

[John Sims]

ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty

....You've not thought about going for Graphite like everyone else recently, then? ....

There is nothing wrong with graphite - I just need to encourage Belinda to up my pocket money. [8|]

 

[TTM]

I was told by a Porsche dealer recently that the colour of the wheels of older cars like ours was "Felgen Grau", though I haven't been able to check it from other sources.

We came to discuss wheel colours as I bought them a set of plastic wheel caps that were originally supplied with the 993 (with the Porsche logo painted black) and the silver was exactly the same as on my old D90.

 

[wolfie308]

This is the place.... http://www.wheelrefurbishing.com/contact.htm

I see they also now offer a service where you can leave your car and have them done and refitted. Useful if you don't have a spare set to use in the meantime(like me) - and they're only 10 mins from my house []

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

According to the information I have on hand the paint code for Porsche wheels is 61M - Metallic silver.

I know that Pristine Wheels offer their standard silver or, at extra cost, what they call Porsche Silver. I have no idea if that is 61M though.

Hope that helps.

Dave

 

[punkassmofo]

I have a set of 16" wheels on my 944s at the moment, dont know what 'name' they are though. Good tyres all round.

 

[Alan Woods]

Yeah they're cup 1's []
I'll dig the Teledials out (I actually think I have three but one might be 15") and let you know.

 

[Alan Woods]

Please no-one look at this thread unless you want confusing wheel information! [][][]

 

[Northern924]

You're not wrong there Alan

Have changed the thread name now though

As mentioned previously these aren't mine, same wheels though with all centre caps

 

[Big Dave]

Yes theyl fit, BUT the rears could be very tight on the passenger side arch...[under the compression of the suspension].
Should be ok on the drivers side, but for whatever reason a lot of the cars, be it S2,s or turbos made around the 89-91 years have slightly different clearances from the drivers to passenger sides, only on the rears though, so be prepared to do some arch rolling....