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bar2
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Topblag
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 8:41 pm
bbs look good. Unless I'm mistaken your alpina reps are 17s.
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G-Bear
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:19 pm
The gold will look good with your blue cab I reckons. Those reps look a touch too big.. but thats just one mans taste over another.. Do what ever tickles you right..

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bar2
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:37 pm
The alpina reps are 18" with a 215 35 18 so you feel every bump on the road so during the winter going to use the 15" wheels
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Z3I
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:44 pm
You need some of these for those Scottish winters...

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polsta
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:38 am
personly i thought 18 wheels were too small for winter, so ive just put my winter wheels on

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hennabm
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:13 am
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Reminds me what happened to the white cab that was built onto a RR/LR chassis - is it still around?
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capnmchl
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:27 am
There was a video floating around the other day, can't remember what thread it was in though.
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suhinaffy
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 11:17 am
The bbs will still be rubbish for driving in snow with those wide tyres on. I found 14" steels with 175 70 14 tyres were best for winter.
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darkchild
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Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:00 pm
suhinaffy wrote:The bbs will still be rubbish for driving in snow with those wide tyres on. I found 14" steels with 175 70 14 tyres were best for winter.
Indeed. I fitted a set of 175/70/14 Goodyear Ultragrip 8s to some 14" bottletops last year and they were superb in the cold, rain and ice. Very quiet too. Didn't get to drive them in snow though - when we had some snow in January/February I was on holiday in Jamaica and the E30 was sleeping in Gatwick's car park!