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Caught you editing...
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And? I had to doublecheck size/price of RT615s. I normally don't look at the wider sizes.
...in tires.
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= $3000-5000+ for car + $X000 in parts I couldn't use.
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Senior Cheap Bastard forgets that the car would have been
worth $3-4000 more, so it's a wash there. And you bought basically all your WRX parts used, and S.C.B. is one of those guys who generally gets back as much if not more than he pays when he sells his used parts. So boo-hoo.
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Yep.
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Forged 18 x 10 wheels + $1290 ($914 after edit) tires... for < $2000, where do I sign up?
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$1000 Gram Lights 57F from Gruppe-S will bear wider tires in better diameters than anything you can run in 17" at the same total price. So why would you "need" 18x10s to move up? Show me a good 17x8.5 or wider wheel at a decent weight for less than that.
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Tires that are only "stock" on 1/2 of a Porsche, maybe, as far as I can find, and insane autocrossers are not going to come down substantially.  |
Dean, 18s are stock on the freakin' Cobalt SS, Solstice, Sky, MP3, and many other low-priced cars now. Most come with stock 18x8s. There will be PLENTY of tires available for wheels that size and a bit wider this time next year, at a reasonable increase in cost over 17s.
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Installed on an '04 STI with all associated brake and drive line changes? Where?
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You have Brembos... why can't you just switch to '05 rotors? Was there a caliper change I was unaware of?
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So? To run a 285, you really need 10"+ wheels.
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It's ideal but not "needed." Personally I'd prefer 285/30R18 on 8.5" than 255/40R17 on 8 or 8.5" wide wheels.
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While this may be true to some extent in higher end cars, 285s are not the new 225s...
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18s have become standard on a long, long list of cars starting in MY06. The aftermarket wheel and tire industry is not blind; there will be lots of wider than stock but same or very similar diameter tires shortly.
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So? My car will be beatable until I get the right one for a specific class and prepare it to the limits of that class and learn to drive it better than everyone on the planet...  |
I know Dean... I'm just saying that if you had looked ahead a little more when you were buying this car you could have been running the optimal tier and wheel package at a minimal increase in cost for the first few years.