« Reply #5 on: 25 February 2024, 09:30 »
Maybe try a set of spacers on the Belvederes to beef them out in the arches a bit?
If you weren’t so far away I’d have loaned you my old Reifnitz replicas to try for a while to see how you get on with 19’s back to back with the lightweight 18’s.
Personally if it was a daily driver I’d store the Belvederes and run a set of CM Wheels replicas which would be less likely to make you cry if you bent one on a huge pothole.
I ran a set of 19” Reifnitz reps for 3 years (26k) and they held up well despite some really badly potholed roads. The NSF took a bit of a slight outer rim bend on a massive fresh hole but not enough for the MOT tester to even mention it. I only expected them to last the first winter before changing them for something else but they looked good and stood up to rubbish roads well.
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