Opinions on wheels please, can't decide!!!

[bobafett]

Hi gents, can you help, after covering the glode to find a mint set of 997 turbo wheels, i am un-dicided in what i like. I like both and the general feeling from my mates is they will not commit either!!

I trust i can rely on this great forum and all the great members to give me there opinions. The 996 boys have helped so wonder if the turbo boys can as well!!!!

I have attatched to pic's hope you can help its doing my head in!!!

So these.....

 

[bobafett]

Or these....

 

[Alex L]

Do you have the 997 wheels then? I have a mint set sitting in my garage right now if not...

 

[bobafett]

Yes bought a set, what did you change to...?

 

[Alex L]

As per my signature:

 

[bobafett]

Nice....!

 

[Alex L]

I think the 997 Turbo wheels look better than the first set myself. Are the first set Techarts?

 

[bobafett]

Yes they are, look a bit aftermarket to me....

 

[bobafett]

I know a guy wanting a set of the wheels you have do they have tyres, and how much are you after, i will give him a ring..

 

[Alex L]

Background: I took delivery of my new Turbo, and on the same day I drove straight from Reading to Bristol and fitted the HREs. The Turbo wheels were then boxed up.

The original wheels are currently without tyres, although I have a spare set of tyres with about 7000 miles on them (about another 5000 left on them). The original TPMS sensors were transferred to my HREs, so I decided to leave the tyres off the Turbo wheels for flexibility in what to do with them (sell them or use as track day wheels/tyres).

I have no idea what to sell them for as I have only recently thought about selling. I guess a new set from an OPC would be about £3500. But that would be with a new set of tyres (approx £1k). So I guess the wheels themselves should be worth somewhere between £2k and £2.5k. How much did you pay for your set (assuming they aren't replicas)?

 

[Alex L]

Ebay has a used (and a little damaged) set for £2200 without tyres.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Porsche-997-Turbo-Wheels-genuine-porsche_W0QQitemZ110433540251QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM?hash=item19b65a189b&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14

So I guess mine would be worth closer to £2500.

 

[clarkes]

Hi

I think the turbo wheels look better but then, I'm biased because those are what I have on my car.

Regards

Richard

 

[Alex L]

ORIGINAL: bobafett

I know a guy wanting a set of the wheels you have do they have tyres, and how much are you after, i will give him a ring..

Put up a for sale post: http://www.porscheclubgbforum.com/tm.asp?m=488093

 

[bobafett]

Great, a thanks for the reply's hope they keep comming, sill have not made my mind up.

Alex, i paid £1500, genuine 997 turbo wheels( checked the part numbers) and the tyres, Mitchilin N RATED Tyres, with about 5.5mm left all round. Not a mark on them, just the centre caps have a bit of corrosion, but every set i looked at had that.

Guess i got a bargain....

 

[bobafett]

Incidently, the bloke i bought the turbo wheels off bought those HRE's sorry i thought they where GT2 wheels

 

[riverproaudio]

ORIGINAL: Alex L

As per my signature:

Bloody lovely

 

[Alex L]

Thanks. Also bloody expensive though! []

 

[zeb]

It s the 997 ones for me

 

[Francois]

Alex

The HRE wheels you have fitted, are they the "Carbon" series and what width... Think they look absolutely stunning, was thinking of replacing mine with the same wheels.

 

[Alex L]

19" powdered silver. No not carbon series. These I have heard are VERY expensive and there have been quite a few horror stories over carbon fibre wheels cracking.

HRE do various shades. I quite like the charcoal ones too...

http://sharkwerks.com/porsche/997-turbo-gt2/63-2009-ultimate-997tt-evt700-techart-type-2-noselift-and-led-lights-and-hre-p40-wheels.html