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Originally Posted by Touge86
I would have gone with advan rg-d's or rg2's in gold instead of the XXR's... but thats just me. Not to mention i have a set of gold 17x8 rg2's coming in a few weeks  . |
I considered those but to me 7 and 10 spokes are king (wish their RC3 came in better fitments).
If I'm going to spend JDM money, might as well go forged Prodrives for similar price. I scoured Yahoo Japan auctions on many late nights and contacted distributors in Japan for quotes/availability on the Prodrives below:
GC-010G
GC-07 series
But I didn't pull the trigger because these wheels have been out years before the 86 and intuition tells me companies (Prodrive, Enkei, Advan) will release special editions for the 86/BRZ (like Rays and WedsSport have been doing). And none of their current offerings can utilize the OEM rolled fenders. I was about to pull the trigger on TE37SL... but I like 7 or 10 spokes better and refrained from buying into the hype. I'm waiting for a different model with "hot" variations for the 86 to come along but with a design I like. I lurrrrve CE28N and believe it has a new revision... could possibly be the start of a new wave of variations for that model. And the 86/BRZ Special Edition TC105N only come in gunmetal, not gold. Don't want to repaint because I'm anal about original paint. But if they came in gold, I'd absolutely have them on right now. To save me ultimate remorse from "settling" on $3k+ wheel offerings that are almost but
not quite perfect, my BRZ is hanging out on perfect cost/fit/look XXRs til then.
Btw, much like how we let ourselves blindly get raped importing JDM cast wheels that cost and weigh more than XXRs, other countries pay an arm and leg for the goodness they see in XXRs. Why struggle to find the perfect JDM wheel (currently non-existent to me) when XXR is presenting a life-is-handing-me-lemons opportunity? So I took it and made lemonade.
