Having sold my styling kit 18" wheels this week, I need to find some new wheels. I have narrowed it down to 2 different wheels, TOMs Violent or Mille Miglia Uno's. I think I prefer the TOMs rims but I want to know what you guys think.........

[url="http://www.tomsracing.co.jp/pd/wheel/vl/pd-w-vl.htm"]TOMs Violent[/url]

[url="http://www.tyresave.co.uk/alloypix/big/uno.jpg"]Mille Miglia Uno[/url]

I like the Milie's mate

I voted the TOMS in silver.

although you can put anything you like on the rear - no-one can see them anyway

Toms in Hiper Black and silver are good.

I think the black has the edge, so I voted for Black

[quote name='ifraz' date='Mar 3 2003, 07:47 PM']I think the black has the edge, so I voted for Black [/quote]
I don't think the black will look as good "in the flesh" mate (although the do look nice in the picture)

have a mate who badly kerbed his Mille Miglia's (on his alpha) - couldn't be completely refurbed, so he had them done in black chrome.


Refurb was a good job (Pristine in Milton Keynes) - but they did not look as good as they did before.

[quote name='Matthew_McNally' date='Mar 3 2003, 07:51 PM']I don't think the black will look as good "in the flesh" mate (although the do look nice in the picture)[/quote]
Not sure what colour Zee's are, I guess you could call them black. I'm sure I'm gonna be corrected His wheels do look really nice. I think the Tom's in Black will look just as good. That's my opinion anyway...but do like the silver ones as well.

Looking at it from a different angle, Zee's car is silver and Andy's is blue May not look as nice on a darker coloured car.

Are you confused yet Andy?

I like the Mille's

Wow Andy - bet you are really glad you started this thread mate!

Its so helpful - isn't mate?

Thanks for the help guys

I think I will go for some standard 17's

i know you will listen to my judgement.

toms......black, no contest!

That was my choice as well Mat.......

I like black rims on almost any colour car, but I would be interested to know just what Hiper Black is..........do you reckon it would be like Zee's (sort of a black chrome)?

Just found out that they are only available in 8.5j x 18" so I will have to lift my car off the floor a bit

I can see some arch rolling coming up

arch rolling is fun.................

took me 2 hours















per blimmin side

[quote name='Supracharged-IS340' date='Mar 3 2003, 10:52 PM']arch rolling is fun.................

took me 2 hours















per blimmin side [/quote]
How do you ensure you get both sides even, and are there special tools to roll evenly? Workshop topic mate?

I've seen some 18x8.5's I was interested in, but got put off by the width..

i used a hammer

hairdryer

for one side

but managed to get a proper roller for the other side, so ended up doing both sides with both methods

i will eventually be grinding back the lip, when i do the DROP!!

8.5X18 WILL FIT............thats what ive got and they only rubbed ever so slightly before the rolling.......any decent tuning/tyre fitting place should have an arch roller

NONONONONO BLACK RIMS ARE BORING!!!!!!!!!!!
GET YOURSELF THE TOMS IN SILVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUST ME I GOT A SENSE OF STYYYYYYYYYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol

TOMS in Bronze................. just to be differnt from the other suggestions............

no seriously though TOMS in hyper black are best

I voted Tom's in Silver Harty - Purely because I'm not sure you will do the hyper black rims justice with a blue car.....

All three are very nice mate, and with your drop, they will all look fantastic!

[quote name='AlienneilA' date='Mar 4 2003, 12:24 AM']NONONONONO BLACK RIMS ARE BORING!!!!!!!!!!!
GET YOURSELF THE TOMS IN SILVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
TRUST ME I GOT A SENSE OF STYYYYYYYYYLE!!!!!!!!!!!!
lol[/quote]
How can you say black rims are boring when 99.999% of cars on the road fitted with alloys have silver rims............

Hey Andy

I saw those a while back but got put off with them coming from Japan? They're just like another set I was looking at, but can't seem to find in 18" in the UK - Ace A205 Manta's - as seen on [url="http://customwheel.com/wheels/ace/"]http://customwheel.com/wheels/ace/[/url]

Anyone have a clue where to find em?

I also really like the Concept Neeper Daggs from the US but they seem to have been discontinued You can see em [url="http://www.tires-n-parts.com/wheels/neeper.html"]here[/url]

If you're importing them, I might be in for a mini group-buy in hiper black for my Platinum Tezz - might help with shipping? Depends on moolah of course. Could get some eyebrows at the same time

Asam

If I do get them Asam (and it depends on price) I will be ordering them from Steve Ganz at Carson Toyota in the states. I kinda want to avoid a group buy as well because I am going to try my hardest to avoid paying import duty and I reckon having more than 1 set shipped would just draw attention to them

[quote name='andyhart21' date='Mar 4 2003, 10:23 PM']If I do get them Asam (and it depends on price) I will be ordering them from Steve Ganz at Carson Toyota in the states. I kinda want to avoid a group buy as well because I am going to try my hardest to avoid paying import duty and I reckon having more than 1 set shipped would just draw attention to them[/quote]
Yeah fair enough - good point.

I guess I should maybe see if Steve can actually get wheels I [i]really [/i]want

Otherwise I'll just have to get some OZ rims or something else that isn't so unique

Asam