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Title: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Gelstharp121 on 19 December 2011, 22:37
Hello I'm after some 3 spoke wheels to fit my mk3 golf gti just wondering what makes are out there ? And different styles ?


Cheers Chris
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Diamond Hell on 19 December 2011, 22:43
They are a crime against nature!

Stop thinking about them.... oh hang on they're for a Golf3 - carry on.
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Wayne on 19 December 2011, 23:30
Horrid looking things that never suited anything.  :grin:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: mumbles on 19 December 2011, 23:43
Horrid looking things that never suited anything.  :grin:

I beg to differ, Range rover classic suits its three spoke alloys very nicely.  :wink:

(http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s104/bailachris/land_rover-range_rover-classicthreespokes.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Jord_GTI on 20 December 2011, 00:03
I used to think they suited soundillusion's retro looking mk1, now I'm not so sure. Love one day hate the next kind of wheels.
3 spokes look OK on some rx-7's. They suited the Range Rover too.


(http://api.photoshop.com/home_8d19c1b01f164fec89aa6c0c8a5e2c82/adobe-px-assets/7725a29e2d524b7fa7cb938f5c3adcb5)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Wayne on 20 December 2011, 00:16
Just found these on another forum  :undecided:

(http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p51/jmfangio5/DSC_0342.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Lewy on 20 December 2011, 00:20
(http://85.234.145.37/Remote0987632434287ghj/httpi125.photobucket.comalbumsp65lewismk1whitefiesta002.jpg)

(http://www.saab-stuff.com/Friends/simon.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Steve_PD on 20 December 2011, 00:21
RX7's look cool with some Volk 3 spokes
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: bob23 on 20 December 2011, 00:26
They are a crime against nature!

Stop thinking about them.... oh hang on they're for a Golf3 - carry on.
you've got a real deep emotional hatred for the mk3 that I think is unhealthy, after all it's just a car! :grin:

I see one and my face looks like this  :smiley: you see one and I imagine your face looks like this  :angry:  :sick: why? what have they done to you to make you see red everytime they are mentioned?

I know I'm taking the pi55 and I'm just having a laugh, but really, what is it about the mk3 that makes you so against them?
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 00:31
I used to think they suited soundillusion's retro looking mk1, now I'm not so sure. Love one day hate the next kind of wheels.
3 spokes look OK on some rx-7's. They suited the Range Rover too.

Oh man....You could have at least chosen one that wasn't from when it was just out of surgery.  :grin:

(http://api.photoshop.com/home_8d19c1b01f164fec89aa6c0c8a5e2c82/adobe-px-assets/d4e8e339388d4a02ac966380f3b7f184)

Three spokes suited a select few during their era. The first and only thing my car needed shot of was it's wheels.

I still have a near mint set of Valveless Antera Type 109's  :grin:

(http://www.antera.de/uploads/pics/1992_1_01.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: travisreeve on 20 December 2011, 00:38
Oh my you guys have this all wrong

look up rotiform 3 spokes or blacksheep as they have a set sitting on the new audi estate <3
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Post by: travisreeve on 20 December 2011, 00:40
And shaun.. Oh my that pic you just put up of yours  :kiss:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Jord_GTI on 20 December 2011, 00:44
I used to think they suited soundillusion's retro looking mk1, now I'm not so sure. Love one day hate the next kind of wheels.
3 spokes look OK on some rx-7's. They suited the Range Rover too.

Oh man....You could have at least chosen one that wasn't from when it was just out of surgery.  :grin:



 :grin:

Look the business on your car in that second pic  :cool:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: murraymint on 20 December 2011, 00:45
Think gash's mk3 looked pritty cool on three spokes

Other then that I Fu*king hate them
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Jack3559 on 20 December 2011, 01:38
Oz

(http://a8.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/s720x720/313307_206555886078931_100001735633178_568700_1752104196_n.jpg)

Advan

(http://i104.photobucket.com/albums/m195/M70REL/1306700009_734.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: LowlifeDubber on 20 December 2011, 07:15
I liked Gash's Advans,i also like these Antera 145's on the right vehicle.

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff60/DoobieB3/Red%20One/5589595976_b5d6cd181a_o.jpg)
(http://www.wheel-whores.com/classifieds/data/4/Walsall-20110924-002641.jpg)
These arnt too bad either.

(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2583/4166486191_1e12c29a60.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 09:23
^^^^ Same as mine with a bit extra.  :grin:  Again with the hidden valves.  :cool:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Diamond Hell on 20 December 2011, 13:28
The Range Rover doesn't count - it's not a car.

The others all make me feel slightly sick.

I blame the gash Fiesta RS for this - it scarred me off them in my yoof.

Bob - I hate jelly mould design and unnecessary weight.  The G3 has both of these.  And a lack of power.  Its only place is as utility motoring.
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: mumbles on 20 December 2011, 14:02
The Range Rover doesn't count - it's not a car.

Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Diamond Hell on 20 December 2011, 14:08
Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:

Yes, a country estate.
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: mumbles on 20 December 2011, 14:12
Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:

Yes, a country estate.

:rolleyes: Picky, picky, picky! :smiley:  :grin:

I was just pleased i remembered it was an estate.  :grin:

Learn something new every day  :nerd:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 14:13
Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:

Yes, a country estate.

Either way, this is a VW thread in a VW Chat related section.   :rolleyes:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: mumbles on 20 December 2011, 14:16
Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:

Yes, a country estate.

Either way, this is a VW thread in a VW Chat related section.   :rolleyes:

I'm sure it's all relevent. The next question could be: Could range rover three spoke alloys fit on a mk3 with the right adaptors and tyres?  :wink:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 14:18
Pretty sure the classic is classed as an estate.  :nerd:

Yes, a country estate.

Either way, this is a VW thread in a VW Chat related section.   :rolleyes:

I'm sure it's all relevent. The next question could be: Could range rover three spoke alloys fit on a mk3 with the right adaptors and tyres?  :wink:

um... no it won't.... but then with you mk3 boys I suppose you may have a point.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: mumbles on 20 December 2011, 14:45

I'm sure it's all relevent. The next question could be: Could range rover three spoke alloys fit on a mk3 with the right adaptors and tyres?  :wink:

um... no it won't.... but then with you mk3 boys I suppose you may have a point.  :rolleyes:

Alas, my mk3 isn't mine anymore. Although, i would like to see what it would look like...  :grin:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 21:59
(http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c152/itskmill06/My%20P-Shops/3spoke.jpg)

 :grin:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 22:03
Antera's Again.  :grin:

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3369237680_ddc3baa243_o.jpg)
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: SoundillusioN on 20 December 2011, 22:11
ANTERA's wheels have won numerous accolades from critics, culminating in 1994 with the title of "Alloy Wheel Design of the Year" for the Type 109 three-spoke.

(http://www.antera.it/img/history_3.jpg)


At its launch, the Type 109 created a stir. It was the first truly harmonious and balanced three-spoke wheel, and it took the market by storm. The 109's striking looks have made it a contemporary classic in every sense. In 1994, ANTERA received the award "Alloy Wheel Design of the Year" for design excellence of this wheel type. Today it still ranks among the most memorable wheel designs in the history of alloy wheel design.
Another novelty was the completely under the center hub cap hidden, integrated air valve, routing the air through a channel in one of the spokes into the tire. This innovation led to a completely uninterrupted, balanced surface of the rim. Even at that time, the wheel was already available in sizes up to 10 x 18 inch.

Taken From http://www.antera.it/history.php
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: dTEA on 20 December 2011, 22:58
Oh my you guys have this all wrong

look up rotiform 3 spokes or blacksheep as they have a set sitting on the new audi estate <3
Pics or GTFO....
audi (http://www.audiondemand.co.uk/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=new%20audi&utm_campaign=audi_on_demand&gclid=CN-qvZ7fka0CFUhrfAodhFdTnQ) none of these have any 3 spoke designs at all... :wink:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: richw911 on 20 December 2011, 23:15
Corsa sport  :laugh:

http://www.reallymeansounds.com/garage/carimages/i15384.jpg  :sick:
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Diamond Hell on 20 December 2011, 23:48
ANTERA's wheels have won numerous accolades from critics, culminating in 1994 with the title of "Alloy Wheel Design of the Year" for the Type 109 three-spoke.

At its launch, the Type 109 created a stir. It was the first truly harmonious and balanced three-spoke wheel,

Sorry, but a three spoke wheel can never be balanced.  It will always be wrong and the above examples still totally do not do it for me, especially when you consider the huge range of other (not wrong) wheels that could be there in their place.

1994.

The year Kurt Cobain killed himself.

Now, I'm not going to suggest Cobain inconsiderately killed himself because of the prevailance of tri-spoke alloy wheels, but the winning of the Alloy Wheel Design of the Year by a three spoke wheel points to something not being right in the world.

John Major was Prime Minister.  Need I say any more?

About the only other note-worthy thing that happened in 1994 is Richard Nixon died, so it wasn't entirely a dreadful year.
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: Steve_PD on 26 December 2011, 11:27
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/397553_10151067255825048_264929400047_21929030_618881191_n.jpg)

I like
Title: Re: 3 spoke wheels
Post by: VW BUSH on 26 December 2011, 11:35
Maybe Courtney came home with tri spokes on her Bronco, that would push me over the top as well