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Flat face | 4 | 10.53% | |
FAT lip | 0 | 0% | |
Concave! | 26 | 68.42% | |
Convex | 0 | 0% | |
Small lip | 3 | 7.89% | |
Whatever, OEM wheels are free. | 5 | 13.16% | |
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07-03-2020, 06:53 AM | #1 |
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Wheel Style Preference
I want to know what it is you like about it most!
Is it the way it looks from certain angles? Is it the cone shape it forms (concave)? Is it the way a fat lip hides the wheel style from nearly straight on? (Big lip)? I think my favorite style is a flat faced wheel. When the flat face lines up with the fender, it just looks perfect to me. I like that it matches the exact width of the car. I also really enjoy a lip. I think a great combination of flat face and lip that everyone with know is the 17x9 RPF1. I don't like them enough to have gotten them over the ARC-8 though. DISCUSS, if you please. |
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I'm a fan of 5 spoke and 5 spoke splits.
OZ Superleggera as re on my list to buy. |
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Small lip, shallow concave face, split 5 spoke variation. In silver, black is for rubber and posers.
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I love the concave look because it kind hints that the tires are wide. Second best has to be wheels with lips.
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I'm not getting need for vote. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Who cares what others may prefer subjectively in looks of wheels. Main thing is of oneself to like (&choose accordingly) wheels he buys for own car. It seems stupid to go according what others may like (even if majority) and buy wheels that look bad in own eyes. Well, unless one happens to be attention whore and main priority is to ask for/hunt/receive positive words from some niche of others, more so then what personal taste in looks tells to.
For me subjectively best looking wheels are 6-thin-spoke ones. Taneisya T6, Advan RG6, SSR Type C and so on, and second preferred choice - "rally style" wide center dish/small multi-spokes wheels .. but to someone else - different, and i'm perfectly ok with that and won't push my choice onto others, nor change my taste according other people taste. |
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I'm a sucker for thin multi-spoked wheels like WedsSport TC105N/X, SSR GTX01, etc.
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The SSR Type-C happen to be some of my favorite wheels in the world. If I could get them in the size I wanted I would've. The first wheels I bought for my car were imported 5Zigen pro racer GN+ that were Type-C look-alikes. Thank you for the input! |
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TE37 drawback imho that it looks not that good at smaller sizes, like 16-17". Spokes and rim look disproportionally too thick/bulky. It gets visually a bit better at 18 & up. For price Rays ask for TE37, overall good with some drawbacks doesn't cut it. If one pays such extraorbitant sum, they need to be flawless, including looks.
Main pros of TE37 i guess is that their design is well-known, so good for bragging of having expensive forged wheels . From current Rays Volk forged offerings imho ZE40 are more of a looker. Though if i had that kind of money for wheels, i'd consider TWS T66-F |
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The big thing to me is that the proportions of TE37s are just right. In smaller sizes - like 15"/16" - I think flat face and concave faces both look good. 16x7 (flat face) 16x8 (concave) When you go up to 17s and 18s, I much prefer the concave look. Particularly on the OG TE37s or SL/RTs because of the amount of concave they have. Newer versions, like the TE37 SAGAs and most of the replica brands try to add too much concave, and they just look cheap. Proper concave on 18x9.5 TE37SL (safe face as OG and RT) OVER concave face on 18x9.5 TE37 SAGA OVER concave face on 18x9.5 Rota Grid It gets worse as wheel size increases to 19" and beyond as well, as the spoke taper design changes and a larger wheel lip is added. 19x9.5 TE37SL That being said, for smaller wheels like 15" and 16", I think flat face is good, and concave is also fine. Once you get up to 17s and 18s, I much prefer the traditional concave face of the OG TEs along with the SL/RTs. Unfortunately, the spoke design of the SAGA is different and not as aesthetically pleasing to me, just like pretty much all of the cheap replica brands, that are excessive with the concave, making the wheel look cheap and tacky. Standard 19s, along with the SLs don't look very good to me. TE37 Ultras are a good middle ground for larger diameter TEs, as they use the more traditional face design. But if it's up to me, I'll choose standard 17"/18" TE37/SLs over pretty much anything else. A lot of people don't see a lot of the minute differences between all the different TEs, but as somebody who considers themself a bit of an officiando when it comes to TEs, I see them all, and it drives me crazy that RAYS would even stop making the original ones and replace them with some of these newer variants, changing the design so dramatically.
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I enjoy that the end of the spoke curls down and connects with the wheel in the barrel rather than at the edge of the wheel. I loved that about my 5Zigen Proracer GN+ wheels I bought and re-conditioned. I would still have them if they had been available in something like a 17x9. Same thing though- the spokes connect in deeper in the barrel, leaving a little lip. Here are a couple photos from when I had them. |
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