Wheel and tyre suggestions

[Carbon]

Help! I'm rubbish at choosing wheels and I need either some new wheels or to refurb the stock ones - I'd also like some better tyres - what do people recommend?

Suggestions please for this car. I'd rather stick with 17s if possible and they must be at least as light as the standard wheels or lighter - it's all about the handling!

All suggestions gratefully received!

 

[B6lee]

yes you are in desperate need of wheels. evo 10 wheels look the nuts on a 5

 

[evo arm's m7960]

evo 6 wheels are a cheap option :O)

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[Carbon]

yes you are in desperate need of wheels.

Alas I couldn't convince the previous owner to sell the wheels he had on it with the car.

Evo 10 wheels look quite good but I would prefer less spokes. I've owned a few VWs in my time so I've spent enough time cleaning wheels - bloody BBS!

Mind you, the race weight erco spun aluminium drag wheels I had on my beetle were a bugger to clean and they were solid disks

 

[B6lee]

In that case you want revolution 7's

Do a search on mlr for threads by me and search white evo 5/6 with aftermarket wheels

 

[Carbon]

OK. I've looked and I've looked - anyone know where I can get some revolution 7s? Do they still do them new?

 

[trackday]

I love my Fedral RSR'S great road and track tyre and wear really well

 

[Billy MR]

it got Goodyear Eagle F1 A2's and im well happy with them.

235 45 17 on MR wheels

 

[dessimpson]

What are Revolution 7's?
I'm thinking crappy looking old school mini wheels :hm:

 

[Carbon]

What are Revolution 7's?
I'm thinking crappy looking old school mini wheels :hm:

LOL, check out the links Lee suggests. They are pretty cool and definitely not old mini wheels - that was my first thought however!

 

[FQ NICK]

Chaz83 on the mlr as got a set of gunmetal 8mr wheels shod with very good ADO8'S 4sale.

£500 PLUS £40 postage.
Would say they are about the best road tyre you can get, they are on my car at the moment and are far superior to the Hancook ventus rs 2 i took off.

 

[dessimpson]

LOL, check out the links Lee suggests. They are pretty cool and definitely not old mini wheels - that was my first thought however!

I checked on the MLR and the only Revolutions I could see mentioned were Millenniums.
If those are the ones then I had a set on my car. 18" though. A bloody heavy wheel that ruined my cars handling :cry:
I replaced them with 8MR wheels and the car was transformed

These ones-

 

[Carbon]

Raceline RL7 is the wheel. Can't find them anywhere though!

 

[Carbon]

So, I've finally taken the plunge and bought some wheels

Compmotive MOs - boring and unoriginal I know :razz:

At least now I'll have some decent tyres - the wheels on the car had autogrip f107 tyres - £50 each in evo size and absolutely lethal :whistling: