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Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:09 pm
by ---Carl---
another gold set .... think it looks cool, id do it
to be different, cant beat being different
think it would look cool on a black polo gti !!!
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:52 pm
by garnier
Yeah! There's no way anyone can say that's tacky! Looks a million miles away from the pig-ugly scoobies with their gold superturismo type rims!
I love it. Gold is back in the running
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:53 pm
by ---Carl---
ye your right
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 7:57 pm
by garnier
Gold....always believe in your soul #
I'm sold on gold. Would look great with the red brake callipers behind the rim
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:02 pm
by Redline
garnier wrote:Cheers! Perfect timing, I was hunting for that link but couldnt find it, I knew I'd read it before somewhere. I think order 4 or 5 just incase I wreck some more.
My mate's dad has a garage at his house so I think I'll wait until I can get up there and use his tools. I'll go with the impact driver as well next time.
I thought it would be the multispline bit that would be more likely to get cheesed off, I managed to rip the teeth of the bolts pretty easily.
No worries.
I'm kinda surprised that it chewed the teeth on the bolt as well, seen as how well the spline bits lock into them. With mine is was the entire bolt head that snapped off, wasn't much fun for the engineering firm who drilled them out for me!
As for the BBS LM's with gold centres, all they make me think of is this:
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:08 pm
by garnier
Lol. Is that a good or a bad thing?
I used a size 8 miltispline bit that I got from halfords 'professional' range. There did seem to be a little bit of play with the bit in the bolt, just a tiny bit but it certainly wasn't a perfectly tight fit.
How long are these bolts? I'm not looking forward to drilling it out.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:16 pm
by Redline
Well I like the gold BBS on the Porsche RS racecar, I'm just still not 100% with them on a road car
But as the saying goes it's your car at the end of the day, so do what you like the most.
Bolts are about an inch or so long. I don't envy the job of trying to drill them out. The company who did mine told me that if I ever sheared any more, not to ask them to sort it!
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:52 pm
by 8080
Thought gold wouldn't work with the small lip on the RXII, so I knocked up this quick pshop (based on those very shiny ones above). I like it a lot!
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 8:53 pm
by garnier
Heh heh, that looks good. A bit chromey looking but still it looks good!
Has anyone actually drilled out damaged BBS bolts?
They're sunk in (kinda) so you cant grind the head off it. I'm scared I damage the mating-threads on the wheel itself. could be in big trouble if I do that.
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:07 pm
by Dee-vub
@8080 - That looks amazing mate, a sorted of polished gold with polished silver rim!!! That is the nicest combo!
Go for gold mate, if you dont, i will when it comes to refurbing the RM's
Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 9:53 pm
by ModifiedMadness
There was a lime green Lupo at GTi International last year with fully polished RXII's, they lookd pretty good on the car
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 3:33 am
by Dee-vub
ModifiedMadness wrote:There was a lime green Lupo at GTi International last year with fully polished RXII's, they lookd pretty good on the car
Yup, it was AAAAAAWESOME!
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 12:59 pm
by ---Carl---
i can see gold becoming a big thing
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:31 pm
by garnier
I'm sure there must be a Gti (or at least some other kind of 6N/6n2) out there with gold rims. If not, I've got first dibs on it
Posted: Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:57 pm
by Redline
Been having a look for Polo's on gold wheels, haven't found any yet. Did come across this though:
