19" Santiago Alloys & Spare Tyre

[C2K]

Geez that's nuts. Not to mention the fact they're in Germany so shipping is 92 quid and you have to buy your own centrecaps on top.

[dubber36]

Nearly £2200 on eBay now.
Makes the factory fit option seem relatively a bargain.
The Pirelli tyres alone are £190 per corner.

But when you pay £1000 to upgrade to 19's when you order the car, you don't get the original 18's as well.

[2014GTi]

Nearly £2200 on eBay now.
Makes the factory fit option seem relatively a bargain.
The Pirelli tyres alone are £190 per corner.

But when you pay £1000 to upgrade to 19's when you order the car, you don't get the original 18's as well.

Very true but if you try and order original Santiago's I bet they cost not less than £300 per alloy wheel... so thats £1200 in parts alone to buy them afterwards.
They are not cheap items to be honest. 

[Skinnee D]

Are they the original Mk7 Golf part?  They're listed as 7.5J width, but VW advertises 8J for the Mk7 (assuming of course that it's not just another VW typo...).

[2014GTi]

Are they the original Mk7 Golf part?  They're listed as 7.5J width, but VW advertises 8J for the Mk7 (assuming of course that it's not just another VW typo...).

Its a Volkswagen typo..... along with the tyre specifications.
They advertise the 19" Santiagos as having 19x8" with 235/35 tyres.... but in reality what we get is 19x7.5" with 225/35 tyres. 

[dubber36]

Nearly £2200 on eBay now.
Makes the factory fit option seem relatively a bargain.
The Pirelli tyres alone are £190 per corner.

But when you pay £1000 to upgrade to 19's when you order the car, you don't get the original 18's as well.

Very true but if you try and order original Santiago's I bet they cost not less than £300 per alloy wheel... so thats £1200 in parts alone to buy them afterwards.
They are not cheap items to be honest. 

I needed to buy a new 18" Vancouver a couple of years ago. That retailed somewhere around £500 with the VAT from VW or TPS. Yours estimate of £300 a wheel might be a bit on the conservative side. Then you've got to put tyres on them, and as you say, at £190 a corner, that's £760.

[2014GTi]

Yep your right £300 is low 
So the moral of the story, if you want 19" Santiago's, best order them from factory 

[dubber36]

I'm not over struck on them, so if I wanted a 19" upgrade, I would probable go for a BBS wheel.

However the way I would go about it would be to run the car with the standard wheels on until the tyres had around 3mm of tread left, then buy a set of new BBS wheels and tyres. Offsetting the cost of the tyres that I would have needed to buy soon anyway, would make them around the same as the £1000 factory upgrade. However when I come to sell the car, I'll either have a set of original Austins with usable tyres, or the BBS's that I could sell on and make a bit more money back.

If you've paid out £1000 for the factory upgrade, you'll never see that money again.

[2014GTi]

You rarely see money pack in a positive way from buying cars in the first place.... they look great and thats what did it for me  option = ticked.

[CraigW]

If the standard 18"s had looked like the 18"s on the mk5 & mk6 I would definitely have went with the Santiagos. The Austins on the Mk7 just look so much nicer IMO and therefore didn't see any need to move to the bigger wheels.