My Winter Mode
 

Found some Mille Miglia wheels on Craigslist.
17x7.5 5x100
205/50/17 Dunlop Wintersport 3D tires

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...0145586267.jpg

5 coats of plasti dip later:

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...01545D5203.jpg

Should have them on the car tomorrow.

let's see em on the car!!

perfect winter mode

Your winter wheels are wider than your OEM wheels :lol:

Save it... They were $300 for everything and all I could find quickly.

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Relax man, I'm complimenting them (or poking fun at our narrow OEM wheels). No offense intended.

:happy0180:

None taken... I was attempting to be funny.

hmm got them from that guy in St. Charles huh? i saw them the other day and became envious that i spent $400 on my set haha. I got some MB octanes with dunlops on craigslist a few weeks back

Did you compare the tread width on the 205/50's to the stock 215/45's? My snows (205/50/17 as well) look much wider than the stock tires, but I haven't actually held them up beside each other.

He was in Algonquine actually

Ah i gotcha

So this sucks... Been tryin to figure out what I'm going to do for a week or so now.

One of the wheels is a +35 offset and the other 3 look to be altered (machined down) to a 52 offset... Didn't notice it until it was too late. Anyone ever heard of wheels beeing machined down by this much? Any thoughts on what to do to make this set work?

Pictures:

Machined down (hubcentric ring installed)

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...6EF1E6DF5A.jpg

Untouched stock offset (missing hubcentric ring)

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...6F09730E9F.jpg

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e2...6F22AC1E67.jpg

Looks like an awful lot of material removed, especially for a cast wheel. No real way of knowing if there are cracks or other issues.

Anyone else have some advice or insight? I may just bolt up two of them to the rear until I can figure out what to do.