Sealed my new wheels which I will use for winters.18" Pretoria copies from CM wheels.Getting Goodyear Ultra Performance Gen-1 tyres hopefully this week to fit next weekend.
Quote from: MKgti on 08 December 2018, 20:17Sealed my new wheels which I will use for winters.18" Pretoria copies from CM wheels.Getting Goodyear Ultra Performance Gen-1 tyres hopefully this week to fit next weekend.They do look darker than on the website. Did you manage to get Centre caps sorted? I have bought 56mm centre cap stickers which come slightly domed to fit the provided blanks.
Tried to fit some carbon mirror caps today... unfortunately despite buying what I thought would be a decent product, they don’t fit. Anyone fitted new mirror caps? Shouldn’t need to be forced into place should they? The OEM one slotted back with almost no effort. Quality of the finish is good but they just aren’t the same shape as the inside part is too curved in.
Here is pic, just resting on wheel at moment.
Quote from: Jim_mk7.5 on 09 December 2018, 12:39Tried to fit some carbon mirror caps today... unfortunately despite buying what I thought would be a decent product, they don’t fit. Anyone fitted new mirror caps? Shouldn’t need to be forced into place should they? The OEM one slotted back with almost no effort. Quality of the finish is good but they just aren’t the same shape as the inside part is too curved in.Been there, broken that The problem is they fix the cf on top of a non oem part which probably wouldn't have fitted properly in the first place. The cf looks good but the standard VW black gloss ones look great and fit properly for a reasonable price.
Do these weigh roughly the same as a standard VW wheel? I'm interested in a set for putting some Bridgestone A005s on too.
Quote from: mcmaddy on 09 December 2018, 16:19Do these weigh roughly the same as a standard VW wheel? I'm interested in a set for putting some Bridgestone A005s on too.Quite a difference in price to genuine VW alloys.I wonder if there is a big difference in quality ?https://vdsshop.co.uk/collections/mk7-golf-gti/products/vw-18-pretoria-alloy-wheel-set-18-x-7-5-5-x-112-et51-gloss-black