Work Cr-Kai Is200

[JohnyT]

A few months ago I had a chat with a few people here about after market wheels and every one was very helpful. I've decided to start a new thread on this rather than dig up an old one just to keep it fresh.

Any ways the reason its taken 3 moths to get back on this is because I fell in love with a picture I saw of a graphite IS250 with a set of WORK Emotion CR-Kai rims. Those would look saweeet on my IS200 I thought so started to search for a retailer who stocked them. Turns out they're kind of a special order thing and I had to get them imported from the USA who in turn would have to import them from Japan. This took almost 3 months, but they're here now and finally got them fitted this morning.

I went for the 18" x 7.5" et 42 in matte gunmetal and had Continental Sport Contact 5's 225 40 R18 fitted. This combo seems to fit perfectly on a stock IS200. I don't get any rubbing when going over bumps or at full lock. There may be a bit of room to lower the suspension but I don't intend on doing that.

The down side to these rims is they don't come with any centre caps. The centre cap bore for the Cr-Kai is 70mm and I could not find any universals that would fit. So I bought some 75mm piping end caps that would fit this 70mm bore of eBay for a few quid. I cut off 2 ridges so they would fit properly as the full length hit against the spigots. I found a paint code for these rims off another site and had a spray can made up. But after all that effort I decided I preferred the uncapped look better.

I got some blue Rays lugs and blue caliper paint to finish off the look. I found some Lexus calliper stickers off eBay too.

So all in all quite pleased with how my IS200 looks with the CR-Kai Rims

[IHgs300]

Look great, really suit the car. But i dont think they are as big as your daughter is saying

[TigerFish]

Very nice looking rims. Get some wet look tyre dressing on and then it will look really mint B)

[JohnyT]

Yeah dressing the tyres is a good idea might give it a go over the weekend.

Our little Charlotte loves the IS, mainly because she can watch her Disney films on the head unit lol. I always try and get her involved she even helped me paint the callipers. She wanted me to show you guys the picture she took of the car yesterday.

[IHgs300]

You have a budding photographer there, my 7yr old daughter is a proper girly girl show her grease or dirt and she runs a mile....LOL

[BenIS]

They really do suit the car mate. Good choice.

[JohnyT]

Thanks :) yeah I'm really pleased with them, can't stop looking out of the window that faces our driveway.

[Dinho]

Nice to see different colour calipers to what I see usually. Suits the car nicely with the nuts too!