« Reply #2 on: 21 October 2026, 15:54 »
Welcome aboard GTI BOY
The popping will be your tyre sidewalls vs winter potholes.
It depends on the look you want.
I used to have an obsession with changing wheels, I think I had at least half a dozen sets for a mk6 that I had many many years ago 🙄
Long since grown out of all that and tend to prefer the factory look these days.
Personal opinion (and a rather boring one) is that a set of black Estorils look best on a Moonstone GTI, pair that up with a set of black mirror caps then add black OEM (ed50 and R BE) VW logos and job done.
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‘26 Ed50, ‘23 Leccy Mini, ‘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
