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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: sjw on 07 September 2020, 17:55
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As per title. Thinking of changing
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Probably worth checking to see what price other genuine sets are being advertised at on well known online auction sites. Were they refurbished purely for cosmetic reasons, or did they have structural repairs (welding or buckling removed) carried out, as that might affect the price you ask for them.
If you don’t need the money from the sale of the Brescias to put towards a replacement set of wheels, it’s worth considering keeping them and putting them back on the car when the time comes to sell it, as some potential buyers will prefer to have the OEM alloys on the car. I did this with the factory wheels on my last car. They went back on the car when I sold it, and I then advertised my aftermarket wheels which sold fairly easily. I’ll be doing the same again with my current car, where the original diamond cut alloys were put into storage shortly after I got the car.
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I always keep my original wheels to go back on when I sell the car. Mint, original wheels are always a good sign as to how the car has been looked after.
I took the diamond cut wheels off my Caravelle at 2000 miles. Even changed the underslung spare wheel for a steel to keep that mint too.
Personally I think OEM wheels are a hard sell if you want to get a decent price. Your aftermarket replacements will probably be easier to sell when the time comes for the very reason you are buying them now. Somebody will fancy a change.
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@dubber36; agree with this.
I had aftermarket alloys on my last car and when the time came to sell it, my VW dealer wasn’t keen to take my last car as a part exchange without the original factory (diamond cut) wheels on. As I’d stored them and they’d not been subjected to the British winter weather, they were in pretty much new condition (no white worm, no kerb damage) and they went back on the car before trading in. Probably quite unusual for a nearly 5 year old Golf to have a set of near mint diamond cut alloys that hadn’t ever been refurbished.