BBS RM's

[chu346]

Just got some 15 inch BBS RM's and would like some recommendations on tyre size's? what colour I should paint the wheels? wether or not to paint them myself? and where to get some polished rims and gold bolts for them?

[Davenotouring]

Pics please!

On your car....maybe the Nogaro Silver...(Motorsport BBS colour - am I right?)

But with silver bolts.

[nav786]

dont paint em yourself mate unless your very good.

try styledynamix for gold bolts, i know they can get em. or i do have a no. for a guy who does wheel refurbishing, and gold plating.

[chu346]

Dave do you mean chrome bolts?

Nav I'll try styledynamix as I also need to change the rims as they are 6.5j at the minute

Also i'm not very good at painting so i'll get someone else to do them for me then. Does anyone know any where in or near Leicester?

[nav786]

Image can get you the dish's if thats what you want. but very expensive.

dunno anwhere in leicester, but make sure who you give it to knows how to put split rims back together. its not a case of just tightnin bolts up.

[nav786]

get a 2" dish, as that will take em to 8" wide, but remember offset then changes too. what is the offset on them?

[panesar_e30]

i was talking to style dynamix last week about changing the dishes on some bbs's ive got. rougly Ԛ£100 a corner.

split rims can be a bitch to refurb

[Davenotouring]

My splitties were already apart, I took the centre and main part + centre caps to Lepsons to be refurbed. The total price including two small extra repairs was just over Ԛ£260, I had the outer lips sorted and highly polished (not laquered) for Ԛ£60 through a mate of a mate etc.

No-one wanted to build them up though.

Chu, I'd go for chrome or silver bolts, whatever you can get your hands on. I did remember seeing a building-up guide on a VW forum somewhere!

[Hyperion]

are the wheels : 15x6.5j or 15x7j

[dreierc]

If the wheels are 6,5" then the original ET is 33. They where also made in 7,5", ET being around 20-25 if I remember correctly. The whels in the pics look like 6,5".

I bought new outer rims and bolts for my RM 012 wheels from felgenfuchs @ German eBay. 2x2" and 2x3" lips plus full set of 7x24mm gold bolts were just under 500 Ԛ┚¬. Today you can get them a bit cheaper from other guys at eBay, there's quite a few sellers having them.

Bolt types are a few different i.e. the quality differs a little and head might be wider on some.

You can take them apart yourself and have everything powder coated. Installation is then more difficult, needing the adhesive (seal) and right tightening procedure with right nm. Also the contact points of the lips and the wheels (RM's are 2-pice so they're a bit easier than RS) should be plane and cleaned prior to assembly.

[Kedge]

Git, i was watching these on ebay, then forgot all about them, proper bargain!

Get some nice fat polished lips and then go for nogaro silver centres

[panesar_e30]

a company called FAT WHEELS specialise in split rim refurb, will try and get a number later.

[chu346]

The wheels are 6,5" and ET is 33.

Spoke to powdercoaters today and they said the can only coat them in some nasty silver. I guess i'll have to go outa town!

[less2303]

I think the web address you are looking for is:

http://www.fatwheels.net

[panesar_e30]

yep, thats it. these people do a top job and are reasonably priced.