Anyone want some brand new stock Series.Blue wheels?
 

So I've grown to like everything on my car except for the wheels. I just never liked black wheels. I'm thinking I might order some different wheels when I order my snow tires so that they will come mounted and balanced and I can put them on myself.

Is there anyone who might be interested in the OEM black STi wheels that come with the Series.Blue stock? I haven't even had the car two weeks yet so they are brand new!

You should try the marketplace

Yeah I will. I'm not home at the moment so I just threw this up from my phone. I'll do a more proper marketplace post one of these days when I have time.

How much would you want?

I think what Turbo95eg6 was politely trying to say is please don't spam the board with your for sale listing when we have a separate board for that to keep this one clear of this kind of thing.

^ agree but op you really should keep those for uself when you trade/sell the car & just so you know those wheels are 1700 without tax and tires.

My apologies. The last board I was a part of did not tend to see the things I posted in the For Sale section, so I had become accustomed to posting them in the General thread, where I would then get lots of replies.

If you care about resale of your special edition car, you'd be wise to keep all the factory parts :)


I wasn't a huge fan either, but when they're clean and shiny they look damn good...

Those are rare factory wheels. I'd hold on to them.

I was going to say keep them. These are pretty rare cars to begin with, and the blues will catch a pretty penny again down the road. Those rims will be a big selling factor to some for sure. However, you are in a dreaded salt state so it really doe me not matter as that car will be a pile of rust in about 7 years anyways if you plan on driving in the winter. I live in southern Cali and the bottom of my car has a little rust on some parts already, and my car has never even seen rain. I can't imagine what the roads back there are going to do to that poor car. Oh well, it just makes me want to trade mine up for a series blue as their value will probably hold pretty well depending on how many will meet their rusty fate in those dreadee salt states. Not to mention the others that will get wrapped around a telephone pole or tank slapped beyond repair at the local track.

Yeah, you guys have pretty much convinced me to keep the wheels, lol.

Though honestly this car is in it for the long haul unless I suddenly get a massive pay raise, lol, so I'm not too worried about trade-in value and whatnot.

I'm with you. I don't particularly care for the black wheel look. Wheels should have some bling to them.
I thought it would be cool to take a set of stock wheels, (since there are a lot available) strip them and have the graphite area painted WRB, keep the polished areas, then re clear coat.

Agreeing with all these dudes: keep those wheels. If you don't like them, just box em up and shove them somewhere in case you want to sell the car later. People love their special factory wheels.

Keep your wheels bro. Although I want your STi lip kits though...

Still have them? I'm interested :)

They're crap. You should sell them. Immediately. To me.

Seriously though, what everyone else has been saying; they are "bespoke" to the car. You should keep them regardless. Hell, have you thought about plasti-dip? It's a non-permanent solution to change the color. I'm not the biggest advocate for the over-zealous use of the product, but it - if done right and proper - can make a significant difference for next to nothing price wise...

Surely by now this guy has long since solved his problem.

No, they're not. These wheels are made to the same specs as every other set of Series Blue wheels and are therefore by definition not bespoke.

I do. How much? Also will be shipped to Alaska
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Holy thread revival, Batman! You are correct. I solved the problem by owning them long enough that I love them now, lol. MINE!

Actually, by definition, that IS bespoke as it's a limited and an option made for this specific car...


But seriously, this thread needs to die :bellyroll:

No. That is not the definition of bespoke. Bespeak in this context means to order something made to your specifications, like a tailored shirt made of whole cloth to your measurements. Bespoke is the past tense of that, meaning the resulting product is a made-to-order custom item. You bespeak your requirements to the designer, and the resulting product is bespoke. Did a specific BRZ customer provide the specifications for these rims? I don't think so. There are companies that have "bespoke" divisions where they make custom items to specific customers' specifications. These rims are not that.

If one person had wheels designed and produced specially for his car that nobody else had, that would be bespoke. If Justin Bieber contracted with Enkei to make him a special set of gold plated rims for his chromed Fisker, that would be bespoke. If he had a baseball cap made from whole cloth to fit perfectly while it sits sideways on his head, which he had measured for the purpose, that would be bespoke.

If a company orders 1000 sets of wheels for a limited edition run of a car, that is not bespoke, it's a mass production. It may be a limited edition, but it's still not bespoke, because they were not made to order for a specific car to a specific customer's needs. If Justin Bieber bought a stock Series.Blue, the rims would still not be bespoke, because they would be just like every other set of Series.Blue rims. If Justin Bieber started selling copies of his stupid sideways hats, those copies would not be bespoke, even if the original item was.

I'm going on about this because it's something that irritates me about Scion's bullshit marketing. The "Bespoke" radio in the FR-S is not bespoke at all. It's just another mass produced unit. I suspect the marketing people who came up with that were too stupid to know the difference, and now they have people who don't know any better using the word incorrectly.

Still wrong in the scheme of cars. "Bespoke" in the car world means for that exact car and not a parts bin part that's used on other cars. As the wheels are made by Enkei and are NOT available outside of Subaru, they are "bespoke." It's the difference between a real Jaguar and that terrible X-Type bullshit they tried to pass off as one.



Also, bitching about "BeSpoke" which is a trademark is kinda silly...

That exact car. Not that car and the 999 others just like it in the limited run. You're using it incorrectly. If you hear other people using it that way, they're using it incorrectly also.

Look at it this way: If you wreck your Series.Blue and destroy a rim, can you order another rim that is already sitting in a warehouse somewhere? Absolutely. Therefore it is not bespoke, because it doesn't have to be recreated specially for your car.

If you're going to argue this point, you're going to have to fight "custom" and "customizing" as well as they're synonyms of "bespoke."


Also, if that's your definition is that, when one of the parts for my old Toyotas need to be replaced and it has to be manufactured by Toyota again because it's no longer "sitting on a shelf," that's apparently bespoke now.


We could go back and forth on this all day, so let's just agree to disagree.

Now you're just making shit up.

Look, if you want to sound ignorant, by all means just keep using the word incorrectly. I tried to help.

Anyone want some brand new stock Series.Blue wheels?
 

scratching my head trying figure out what's going on. You can order series blue wheel from Japan anytime you want with 3 different sizes since they are just STI wheels for brz o.O it's like STI wheels for STI/legacy/forester.