Where can I buy wheels?

[Dxbolton]

I've ordered one of the F30 steel wheel (oval holes). I'll put a tyre on it and see what I think.

I'm going to re-read your build thread to see what you did with the spinners.

I used VW transporter centre caps, but you need VW bolts as the heads are huge to allow the cap to clip onto them.
but. The wobble washer needs machining from a dome to taper to grip the rim. And thread reducing from 14mm to 12mm.

 

[Duncodin]

I used VW transporter centre caps, but you need VW bolts as the heads are huge to allow the cap to clip onto them.
but. The wobble washer needs machining from a dome to taper to grip the rim. And thread reducing from 14mm to 12mm.

So the centre cap has these clip kind of things to clip onto the bolt heads?

How secure is that? Do you just knock them on for shows and such or do you drive around, motorways etc, with the spinners on?

 

[Dxbolton]

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How secure is that? Do you just knock them on for shows and such or do you drive around, motorways etc, with the spinners on?

The clips are good at high speed. 18 months and a few 3 digit runs in the autobahn, they don’t come off.
They knock onto the 5 bolt heads and clip to the rear of the bolts. No issues

 

[1955Davidr]

My retro look with 195/65/15’s

 

[Duncodin]

As I said earlier, the old 507 had crossply 6.00x16 tyres. In today's money that's same width as 185x16 as mentioned by @IainP

So, with that in mind, on my 7x16 wheels a 205x70 tyre would be the same height, sidewall, as the old 507.

Here's a real 507

and here's my car with a 207/70x16 tyre on it

What was Chris at Tribute thinking when he made the 507 kit with such humongous wheel arches. I'll never fill them. Lower the car an inch will look better but I'm not sure about the /70's Maybe a 205/65 would look better.

But then I was thinking that once the wheel is painted body color I might even put a tiny 1" whitewall band on the tyre. Would what that would look like.

 

[the Nefyn cat]

And now take the wheel back to whoever fitted the tyre and kick their ar5es till they fit it properly. There's a reason for the dot on the tyre, and a place for it to go. There's also absolutely no reason whatsoever to fit a wheel-weight and then fit another at 90 degrees to it. That's what laziness looks like.
It it also possible to balance the wheel with the weights on the rear rim, out of sight. That way no pedantic picky tw@ like me will feel forced to type long-winded cr4p like this.

Damn, I feel better now, may have to go for a little lie down.

 

[Duncodin]

And now take the wheel back to whoever fitted the tyre and kick their ar5es till they fit it properly. There's a reason for the dot on the tyre, and a place for it to go. There's also absolutely no reason whatsoever to fit a wheel-weight and then fit another at 90 degrees to it. That's what laziness looks like.
It it also possible to balance the wheel with the weights on the rear rim, out of sight. That way no pedantic picky tw@ like me will feel forced to type long-winded cr4p like this.

Damn, I feel better now, may have to go for a little lie down.

No. Not bovvered. That's what I expect when I taken anything to ATS. I just wanted a cheap tyre quick to see what it looked like. For anything that I actually want to drive I wouldn't go anywhere near them.

But now you mention dots. Look down to the bottom left of the wheel rim. There's a white dot on the rim. It's actually a centrepunch ding that you can feel on the other side of the metal. So OEM has punched it then dabbed with paint? What's that about. The wheel came in an bmw/OEM box.

 

[the Nefyn cat]

There's a white dot on the rim

Oh well, I take it all back. Some of it, anyway. That looked like another weight to me, don't see why anyone would want to do that to a rim. And the bit about the weights going on the back still stands, I always did it to mine just because the wheels look better without. Purely my opinion, of course, others may disagree.

They'd be wrong, though.

 

[t-tony]

Out of sight is out of mind? Looks better from the outside.

Tony.

 

[the Nefyn cat]

I've never liked the look of weights scattered round the rims, looks much nicer tucked away.

 

[Duncodin]

I've never liked the look of weights scattered round the rims, looks much nicer tucked away.

I must confess that I thought that the weights on the outside were there to balance a difference between the inside and outside - although on my alloys they've always stuck the adhesive square-flat ones to the inside of the rim - although, there again - I've never let ATS or their ilk anywhere near my alloys.

 

[Duncodin]

Oh well, I take it all back. Some of it, anyway. That looked like another weight to me, don't see why anyone would want to do that to a rim. And the bit about the weights going on the back still stands, I always did it to mine just because the wheels look better without. Purely my opinion, of course, others may disagree.

They'd be wrong, though.

But what about that dot in the lower left of the steel wheel picture?? have you ever seen that before? The steel is quite thick so the centre punch musta been knocked with some force to knock it in so far that you can feel the dot on the other side of the steel

 

[the Nefyn cat]

That dot is what I thought was another weight, I tried zooming in on it but it went a bit blurry. It's not the sort of thing that you normally get on a new wheel. Not likely to have done any damage, but strange all the same.

 

[Duncodin]

That dot is what I thought was another weight, I tried zooming in on it but it went a bit blurry. It's not the sort of thing that you normally get on a new wheel. Not likely to have done any damage, but strange all the same.

I wondered if bmw would mark a wheel like that if it was a reject or grey import? It came in a synter box but I didn't buy it from synter.

Anyone have a good relationship with their local OEM? Maybe next time they're their could they ask if the punch mark on the rim has some secret meaning. Ta..

 

[hard top]

But what about that dot in the lower left of the steel wheel picture?? have you ever seen that before? The steel is quite thick so the centre punch musta been knocked with some force to knock it in so far that you can feel the dot on the other side of the steel

I have never seen anything like that before, so I had a look online and it came up with this.

Copy & Paste :-

I was able to determine that their machine, probably a typical tire change machine, is designed to grip either the outside rim lip (see outer arrows in below photo) or the inside of the wheel opposite the rim. The latter method (see inside arrow) can be relied on to place a set of 4 deep pock marks in four positions around the wheel. Notice how the 4 steel points match the damage shown in my original post. In the rim-grip method, special plastic protectors can be placed over the outer rim grip tangs to further insure there's zero damage.