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Model specific boards => Golf mk7 => Topic started by: P6GTD on 01 October 2024, 12:37
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VW Prets £1,900 per set
CM Prets £480 per set
Leaving aside all the stuff about warranties, insurance, etc this is a huge price gap. Basically a £1,400 contingency fund.
So can anyone tell me
1) the weight of a CM Pret 18”
2) difference in materials and construction of the two wheels
3) what guarantee does CM offer
5) does anyone have long term experience of running CM Prets
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The wheel weight is 10.4KGs. I asked this before I ordered them.
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How much for genuine 18 inch wheels?! And without tyres! :sad:
That is a silly price, and it looks like the genuine ones are currently on back order too.
It wasn't too long ago when VW were suppling 18 inch Pretoria wheels with tyres for under £1400
(https://i.postimg.cc/V6v5h2XL/Pretoria-upgrade.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/47CJ7L8r)
The world has gone mad
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VW currently pricing 4 bare 18” Prets at £1918 but….”on offer” at £1823. I believe that excludes fitting. Increased by a couple of hundred since spring/summer.
Thats just too rich for me I think.
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CM now confirm :
bare weight 10.4k (VW ones are 11.6)
6 month warranty on wheels.
I’m still wondering what the difference in materials and construction is between CM and VW Prets.
And, although I can see historical GTI Forum topics and posts on this general subject I would love to know of any “long term test” experiences of CM 18” Prets.
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CM now confirm :
bare weight 10.4k (VW ones are 11.6)
6 month warranty on wheels.
I’m still wondering what the difference in materials and construction is between CM and VW Prets.
And, although I can see historical GTI Forum topics and posts on this general subject I would love to know of any “long term test” experiences of CM 18” Prets.
I emailed them yesterday to ask if they had TUV etc. approval, no response as of yet.
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VW currently pricing 4 bare 18” Prets at £1918 but….”on offer” at £1823. I believe that excludes fitting. Increased by a couple of hundred since spring/summer.
Thats just too rich for me I think.
That seems really expensive. I know it was a good few years ago (it was in 2013), but when I bought a set of 18” VW Rotary alloys for my mk6 GTD, from memory they were just over £1k for the set of four. That price either included fitting or the dealer agreed to fit them for free; I bought the tyres from Camskill Tyres and had them delivered to my VW dealer and they fitted the tyres to the wheels and put the wheels on the car. I don’t know if they would do that now.
If you buy VW alloys via your dealer’s parts department - or any parts for that matter that cost a fair amount of money - always ask for a discount. If you don’t ask, you don’t get and there always used to be around 10% discount available, just for the asking.
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And now my insurer wants a 20% loading if I switch wheels.
Maybe I will live with the Parkers. One needs refurb so that will relieve me of £120. Deep joy!
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And finally…..exactly who do VW think they are selling their 18” Pret bare wheels to at nearly 2 grand a set??
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And now my insurer wants a 20% loading if I switch wheels.
Maybe I will live with the Parkers. One needs refurb so that will relieve me of £120. Deep joy!
Insurance in this country is a scam. What actual difference does swapping to very similar wheels make to the risk? Practically zero.
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I thinks it’s more about the kind of driver they think is involved. I bet statistics show that “cars” with modified wheels have more accidents. And….they might be right on the basis of what I see flying round the town centre on a Saturday night.
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And now my insurer wants a 20% loading if I switch wheels.
Maybe I will live with the Parkers. One needs refurb so that will relieve me of £120. Deep joy!
Don't be a tightwad, £120 refurb is less than two tanks of fuel :wink:
If you are keeping the car I'd go to Lepsons, if you are not keeping it longer than a year or two at a push, get the £120 refurb.
what about a used set of genuine prets off ebay? If you pick up a cheap set with few scuffs you can get them refurbed? Or just wait for an immaculate set
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Cheapest seem to be buy an R!
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Cheapest seems to be keep the original Parker’s which is exactly what I’m going to do.
I’ll have a holiday instead!
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Would the insurance increase if you swapped to the older Austin wheels? Saving you about 1Kg
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I expect it would still load the premium but would anyone notice in event of a post-accident inspection? I suspect not.
I think my passion for Prets has started to burn out and maybe I will opt for the simple solution of keeping the car original. Less hassle all round.
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I expect it would still load the premium but would anyone notice in event of a post-accident inspection? I suspect not.
I think my passion for Prets has started to burn out and maybe I will opt for the simple solution of keeping the car original. Less hassle all round.
Next spring I’m going to get my Parker’s powder coated when I can find someone local ish that can do the black and silver. Like you, I like the OEM straight out of the factory look.
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By coincidence I saw a red 7.5 today (a bit scruffy tbh) with Parkers that had been painted or powder coated a uniform mid-grey. No black inserts. Just overall grey.
Memo to self : NEVER do this!!!
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Also seen this style in some adverts
(https://i.ibb.co/p0fjngr/wheel.jpg)
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By coincidence I saw a red 7.5 today (a bit scruffy tbh) with Parkers that had been painted or powder coated a uniform mid-grey. No black inserts. Just overall grey.
Memo to self : NEVER do this!!!
IMHO OEM diamond cut alloys with wide spokes such as mk7 GTI’s Austins and mk7.5 GTI’s Parkers don’t look great when refurbished in a single colour; the wide spokes make them look very heavy. Just my opinion though, and no offence intended to anyone who’s had their Austin or Parker alloys powder coated in a single colour.
I may be wrong, but I seem to remember the OEM standard alloys on the mk7 GTI in Germany was a silver powder coated version of the Austins. I think may have been 17” rather than 18” and were possibly called Brooklyn rather than Austin, and they were also sold in some markets as winter wheels.
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Looking at the mono-colour Parker explains why it is so heavy. There’s a lot of mass in there!
You might get scuffs and white worm but I doubt they would ever buckle. Very strong……
……..just looking for positives.
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Looking at the mono-colour Parker explains why it is so heavy. There’s a lot of mass in there!
You might get scuffs and white worm but I doubt they would ever buckle. Very strong……
……..just looking for positives.
I actually quite the look of them.
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Silver is not so bad…..flat grey not so good.
There is a red GTI on Cinch with all black ones for comparison.