« on: 10 October 2015, 14:17 »
I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but it has long been my signature to run a different set of alloy wheels on almost all of my cars.
I'd fully intended to run the R on standard wheels but old habits and all that...
The mk7 is a fussy shape as far as I'm concerned when it comes to matching it with alloy wheels. The factory has done quite a good job with its choice of wheels but some of us just like to be a little bit different.
With my GTI back in 2013 it didn't take long for me to put the 19's I'd had on both my mk6's on but somehow the BBS wheels didn't quite suit the shape of the mk7 as well as the mk6.
Excuse the poor iPhone photos, they lose the 3D features that make the BBS's look quite muscular in the flesh.
Collection day
A few weeks later
How they looked on the mk6
As the OEM wheels were about the only ones I'd seen that suited the more angular style of the mk7 I began to look for something with an OEM flavour and feel.
It didn't take me long to settle on a set of Rondell alloys (German made) and the BBS's were snapped up in the classifieds
And now to the R and I'm four months into ownership and am still on the standard 18" wheels and I'm stuck for ideas for replacement. I neither love nor dislike the Cadiz but I'd like to put a bit of a more personal signature on the car - so any suggestions?
Again, from pick up day
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‘25 8.5R, ‘23 8R, ‘20 8CS, ‘19 135iX, ‘19 TCR, ‘17 Ed40, ‘17 GTD, ‘15 7R, ‘13 GTI PP, ‘11 GTI, ‘09 GTI, ‘98 Ibiza Cupra, ‘05 GTI, ‘06 Polo GTI, ‘04 GT TDI, ‘05 Fabia vRS, ‘02 GTI T, ‘03 Ibiza TDI 130, ‘01 Leon 180, ‘89 mk2 16v, ‘99 Ibiza TDI, ‘96 VR6, ‘98 Ibiza TDI, ‘92 VR6, ‘88 mk2 8v, ‘92 Polo G40, ‘91 mk2 8v, ‘89 mk2 8v, 205 GTI 1.9, ‘83 mk1 GTI, ‘80 Scirocco GTI, plus some others I’ve forgotten
