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hi guys, i changed my wheels today as the title suggests....

i did have 17' alpina reps,


but i swapped them for these.........




after seing the car sat on alpina reps for a year it looks alien with the bbs's!

now i know ive done the right thing, handling wise and originality wise ect ect but im a little undecided right now.
these have been professionally shot blasted and refurbed and they were a ''straight swap for my alpina reps''

ignore the colour as in spraying the inside of the spokes in gloss black and polishing the faces... also i will need to source caps for them to.

i welcome comments boys, help me out here please lol

thanks

Imo it would look better if the BBS's were silver.

I had to squint to see what they were lol

prefer the bbs, but i'm biased but, not a fan of black wheels. but hey, it's your car, not mine ;) you did the right thing swapping though imho

leeparkes wrote:Imo it would look better if the BBS's were silver.

+1

i know boys, they have been shot blasted and sprayed ford grey.. a sin i know but me and my mate are going to polish them....

i was going to spray the faces black and lip white but im feeling the polished look..

how would i get the polished effect on the caps though? they are plastic right??

black rims look so sh!t imo, its silver all the way

Better - soooo much better !

Got centre caps ?

simon- i hear you mate.... only reason the reps ended up black was because the car came with them on and i wanted to try improve them for the temporary basis they were on there..... im feeling polished tbh.

rob- no caps but i still thought they were worth a straight swap for reps that needed a tyre!

they do need caps though

i like the bbs better mate ftw. black is a lot more popular than it was as an option for wheel colour, but thats your decicion to make. im torn on painting my wheels black atm but as the car is black im stuck as to whether the colour break up from black on silver would outdo a full murder job. choices choices lol. theyre staying silver till next year anyway.

e30-dk wrote:how would i get the polished effect on the caps though? they are plastic right??

Only the centre "nut" shaped part. The actual disc with "weave" on it is alloy.

If the black BBS have diamond cut faces they would look ok, like Ronal, Rial and Borbet B's.

i hope you didnt do a straight swap for them? i prefer the 17s but i bet u gettin such a comfy ride now, me id say the reps but overall comfortability the bbs would i be wrong in thinkin that lighter wheels mean slighter faster car yh, so now ur m52 has that less weight to pull!

black on black wont work mate, but thats only my opinion and no offence intended

i always prefered black rims....but that was 6 years ago before everyone and his dog was doing it, now theyre so common theyre boring. a polished lip was also needed to break up the blackness.

e30-dk wrote:black on black wont work mate, but thats only my opinion and no offence intended

yeah thats what im worried about. the silver deep dish has a nice look to it. the only thing that inspired me to do black on black was this picture here... check out the e30 in the front of the pic on post 67...

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthr ... 889&page=5

bss- they are genuine bbs but not to sure on the diamond cut bit, will have to check tomoro in the light

ali- yes mate i did straight swap them for the reps, but even with no caps i thought this was well worth it! refurbed bbs's go for 350-400 quid and reps barely scrape 200 so gotta be a bargin no??..............

I've had BBS and BK's, you made the right choice

good im glad of that ferg

e30-dk wrote:bss- they are genuine bbs but not to sure on the diamond cut bit, will have to check tomoro in the light.

I can see from your pics that they are not diamond cut.

These Borbet B's are painted black then the faces diamond cut to give a polished look.

no they aren't and i can see now from your pic the difference..... thats the effect i would like for them tbh mate

black inside the spokes and polished face

Simon13 wrote:black rims look so sh!t imo, its silver all the way

+1

Diamond cut !

i wouldnt fancy slimming the front of the spokes flat on a wheel not designed to be like that plus the mesh part of the caps is only thin, i don't think you'd be able to square it off enough to match the rest of the wheel without cutting through it.

black seems to visually shrink a wheel, so it looked ok on the reps as theyre a large wheel which in silver look too big for the car, but a 15in bbs is already 'small' so painting it dark hides it and makes it look tiny.

i'd just do them a nice silver and enjoy having a timeless classic wheel which is going to hold it's value and make the car drive how it should.

Duke137 wrote:I've had BBS and BK's, you made the right choice

+1 - I've had both on the chromie... The alipna Reps only made their way onto her as I needed to replace tyres for the bbs... Looked wrong and felt wrong... BBS all the way...


And in silver too. Although if your not into the standard look like most, why not do a darker silver on the spoked sections? A Friend of mine has done his with a off gold colour with a polished lip on his chromie and they look spot on, the gold isnt bling and you can only just tell when you stare.

Burger Kings are wank. End of.

I like black wheels..

i didnt mean im after that look by diamond cutting the wheels boys lol....

what i meant was spray the insides of the spokes black and then polish the faces.. like the pic of those borbets

Personally I like both sets but they've GOT to be SILVER.But your car your choice.

BBS 1 BK's 0

I prefer silver but blacks OK plus its your ride your way.

why not go nogaro centre with silver rim like a motorsport.....have seen it on a white car and looks pretty good

harry_p wrote:i wouldnt fancy slimming the front of the spokes flat on a wheel not designed to be like that plus the mesh part of the caps is only thin, i don't think you'd be able to square it off enough to match the rest of the wheel without cutting through it.

You would hardly "slim" the spokes to diamond cut them, just a couple of thou should suffice i would have thought.

Same for the caps.

ive had bks, 16 alpinas genuine, and now 15 inch bbs,

the only difference i really noticed was the bbs with the thicker tyres where a bit softer,

handling wise its more or less the same around the bends etc,

though i prefer the looks of a decent set of bbs, a scraggy set of bbs look awful,

and im not a fan of black much prefer the silver, but definatley a better choice

bbs is the only way to go in my opinion. paint them whatever colour you like. you can always have them professionally refurbished to the orignal colour when you want to have the factory look

but as for the original question, i think it looks better with the 17" reps on.
small wheels look sh1t.

fuzzy wrote:but as for the original question, i think it looks better with the 17" reps on.
small wheels look sh1t.

i used to go for big wheels but nowadays (especially on an e30) theyre a bit out of date. im all for smaller wheels, lower drop and extra wiiiiiidth!

17s (even alpinas) just dont look right on an e30 imo