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Offline xAntiVenxm

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Deep Dish Alloys - recommended places to look?
« on: 19 May 2012, 19:43 »
Right, so the mk3 gti I've picked up, while i'm in the fixing it stage, i'm also looking at what i'll be doing to style her nicely when she's back on the road.
She's currently got BBS 15's on, and I hate em. Haha, can't wait till I've got some money to get something nicer!
Definately going deep dish, but struggling to find them being sold.. am about to start searching for german/european websites and seeing if i can't pay with paypal and get them shipped to my german mate's family's house and have them ship them to me lol!

If anyone knows anywhere good to look for a set, id appreciate hearing about it :)
Basically looking for a set of wheels "deeper than your uncle mario's pizza and wider than your mums vag**a" haha xD
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Re: Deep Dish Alloys - recommended places to look?
« Reply #1 on: 19 May 2012, 20:12 »
as soon as you said deep dish i thought "heres a guy who doesnt have a clue when it comes to wheels"

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Re: Deep Dish Alloys - recommended places to look?
« Reply #2 on: 19 May 2012, 20:55 »
How about making your own?
Imagewheels do a nice range of cast 3 piece splits.
Just got 8" wide all round with a -5 et that will give you a 4" lip



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Re: Deep Dish Alloys - recommended places to look?
« Reply #3 on: 19 May 2012, 21:12 »
dont have to be 'deep dish' to have an awsome set of wheels, look at tweeds sig pic, hes wheels aint too deep n there  :cool:, n my wheels in my pic only have about an inch of dish n i think there pritty nice too  :grin:
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Offline xAntiVenxm

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Re: Deep Dish Alloys - recommended places to look?
« Reply #4 on: 19 May 2012, 23:19 »
as soon as you said deep dish i thought "heres a guy who doesnt have a clue when it comes to wheels"

And when I saw your reply I thought "and here's someone who loves the smell of their own farts and can't answer a simple question without lording their preferences & apparent godliness over everyone else" ...

anyway.

How about making your own?
Imagewheels do a nice range of cast 3 piece splits.
Just got 8" wide all round with a -5 et that will give you a 4" lip

I've been scanning their page this evening, I think it was your post I saw in another thread? I'm liking what I'm seeing on this, their Billet styles are beautiful and it'd be well worth the extra money to have wheels fabricated just for my car. I like having things on my car you either would never find, or be very hard pressed to find on another the same! That sounds a perfect size as well, just shy of a 205 tyre, and might consider stretching a 195 tyre for the look of it.. I thought about 8.5" width, but I seem to remember someone i know trying that and then being unable to turn the steering wheel more than one full turn lol and I don't wanna over-do it, a 4" lip would be nice, euro is the way forward.

dont have to be 'deep dish' to have an awsome set of wheels, look at tweeds sig pic, hes wheels aint too deep n there  :cool:, n my wheels in my pic only have about an inch of dish n i think there pritty nice too  :grin:

I know it doesn't, the euro look can be achieved without being 'deep dish' and I do quite like tweed's wheels, and yours look pretty tidy as well! I just want to go that bit further and get them really deep.. I've only seen a few cars who've done it and fell in love with that style straight off. Ballsy or not, stupid or not, amazing or not, it's what I've got into my head that I'd like to have on my golf and I'd rather make myself happy than worry about whether people would like it if I ever decided I wanted to take it to a vw event. I've been green-eyed over them ever since I saw a mini with rims I could bake a wedding cake in lol.  :grin:
By the time it comes time to actually buy some new wheels (after I do all the work to get her through an MOT and back on the road) my taste may have changed or I may have seen another idea pop up somewhere, but at the moment it's what i'd go for, and the wife approves which is difficult to achieve  :laugh: