I am seriously in love!

[gibby]

15"s tinman, tyres on mine are 195,55,15 I think, not sure about the 195 bit but they are deffo 55 15s. I'm hoping to refurb and polish mine up when I get the cash and time as I know what blue is saying, they look the dogs danglies when they are polished to the max. You know you want some ! 

[tinman]

just got back from the VAG Counter and they stopped making them 2.5 years ago.

so it looks like i'll be hunting around a for a rivage to buy, and nabbing the wheels off it. expensive way to acquire wheels though 

[gibby]

just got back from the VAG Counter and they stopped making them 2.5 years ago.

I'm surprised at that tbh, thought it would have been more like 14 years. All is not lost then, they are out there just a b1tch to find (without the car attached to them).

[tinman]

i've found a rivage on Autotrader for 2k. seriously thinking about seeing it, buying it, getting some wheels and selling it on again.

i've had a uk vw search done and no one has any spare ones on a shelf.

[gibby]

You really want them alloys dont you tinman !?

Bear in mind that you need to sell the Rivage to someone who doesn't know too much about them, personally I wouldn't buy it without the original alloys but you could buy that one for 2k, slap some wheels on it and some race boy might buy it off you for 2.5k? 2k for a Rivage is very very cheap.?

EDIT: Just looked on autotrader, that one for 2k doesn't have a pic so you need to check what wheels it has on it first. 

[tinman]

i saw that. i was gonna slap on my spare set of 14" Castellets if i go down that route.

a friend was also musing about taking the ?2k rivage off my hands after i got the wheels anyway. free wheels but 100% hassle factor.

at the moment, i have a friend buying a rocco2 tomorrow for s2n with castellets, probably 14s but you never know. and there are two on ebay at the moment.

i quite like the ebay ones as it doesn't mean a hole in the bank account straight away. i can send them down to southampton for refurbing and also to remove the mirror bling finish. my next problem is getting hold of some very specific BFs. its not the money thats the issue, just finding them in the country with the correct tread pattern.

i could however, buy them in florida next month and bring them back with me ;-) probably the cheapest thing to do. not sure what the airline would say though.

[gibby]

Selling the car for same price bought but pinching the alloys sounds like a good idea. On ebay I can only find the sale where there are only two wheels.  Even with 14" castellets on it, 2k is cheap though. 

[tinman]

yeah, thats the two that i'll probably acquire first.

this is how it goes:

if i didnt purchase these two (assuming i win), then someone in two weeks will put two more on ebay.

if i do purchase it, 2 people will be selling full sets within 2 weeks.

so, i don't think i can win. plus, with a spare wheel (or two), i could (under some very bad circumstances) take a hit and still have a spare wheel to fall back on. these things will only become more rare as time goes on.

[gibby]

Sounds like a plan  You could always sell two on ebay yourself as they will only get rarer that's true. If you do get them and to see if they are originals they should have volkswagen stamped on the wheel and it should also have the word "forged" stamped on them too, there maybe other stamps on there that I can't remember but I could find out if you wanted to know for sure 

[tinman]

yeah, there should one more german word. i'll check it against the 14s.

what i would like to know is the measurement from rim to rim across the face of the wheel.

the 14" comes out at 15".

the ones on ebay don't have tyres so there will be a quick tape measure coming out to check that they are correct. its very difficult to actually tell how big a wheel really is when your up close and personal and the tyre is missing.