Hello,
I just talked to my ex-girlfriend's friend, and she's moving and selling the rims off of her car, and she wondered if I wanted to buy them. They are 16" Focal Z1 ten spoke rims in silver and they're in pretty good shape, and they have Cooper 205/65R16 tires on them. Two of the tires are in great shape, but two of them are close to bald and need to be replaced pretty soon. She wants $300 for the rims and tires. What do you guys think? Do you think that these rims are worth buying at that price? I'm debating whether I want to or not because I'd have to buy new tires. If I don't buy these rims I'm going to need new tires anyway however, and the rims would look much better than my current 14" ones. What would you guys do?

Here's a pic:

yes buy them

seems like a pretty good deal, but with those tires/rims your overall circumference is going to be an extra 7.21 inches.

that means your speedometer is gonna read 54.80 when it was 60 before. if you are prepared to deal with that, I say go for it.

for further tire differences, plug in the sizes here.

Thanks for the helpful information. I realized earlier that the profile of the tires is pretty big, so I thought about it and decided that if I got those rims I'd want lower profile tires, so I decided that I'll just buy some 17" rims with some 205/45R17 tires when I decide to get rims. I'll probably buy rims in the spring after my suspension setup is done.

Those were pretty nice rims though

I love low pro's. The thing about having rims that you don't really want is that its hard to really get focused on buying the ones you want. The same is happening to me now that I have some pretty good white rims on there.

--gh0st_d0g+Nov 29 2002, 03:59 PM

QUOTE (gh0st_d0g @ Nov 29 2002, 03:59 PM)

seems like a pretty good deal, but with those tires/rims your overall circumference is going to be an extra 7.21 inches. that means your speedometer is gonna read 54.80 when it was 60 before. if you are prepared to deal with that, I say go for it. for further tire differences, plug in the sizes here.

Ghost Dogs right, I had a hell of a problem getting my GT4 to pass its
European standards test(SVA). The 17" rims give you an under reading
on your speedo , when tested on a rolling road I was actually driving
5mph faster than the speedo read( one good point if your speedo is readingl ower then your mileage will be less, not much though). The speedo on the Gt4 is calibrated for a 15" rim so I begged and borrowed a set from a nearby dealer for the test. As for the rims go for it, I used to have 16" speedlines on my last celica and they looked good,

Jon