Please help me choose rims

[inertia]

On my 2003 Audi A4 3.0 QS, ive just had the ABT Skirts fitted to it and all lowers colour coded and all the pannels refinished so the paintwork looks like new, the car is in Ming Blue with tinted windows.

Pics here from before this work was done:

http://www.markandrews.me.uk/A4/Jan08/

I havent got current pics as ive not collected it from the body shop yet (want the paint to have a while to harden before its used.

I want some 19" rims for the car, my budget for these is £1500 including tyres, and the tyres must be Goodyear Eagle F1`s 235/25/R19 .

I first chose 19" konig holes graphite rims :


but all the UK suppliers I can find have sold out and cant get stock for 3+ months.

My next choice were TSW Thruxtons , but no where has them in the coirrect fitment any more (alloywheels.com sold the last set last night) :



I really like 5-spoke wheels as you can guess, black spokes, chrome rim, bit of a lip, and these are the closest I can find now, but they look a bit to busy for me, they are ok, but im not keen :



I have considered these multispoke dotz wheels but I cant seem to bring myself to commit to them, mainly because they arent my original idea od 5-spoke deep dish black/chrome :




Any suggestions / comments / ideas appreciated.

By the way i dont want any cheap heavy 19" RS6 replicas or anything like that, I want a fairly light known brand rim.

Thanks
Mark

[Marco34]

I'm afraid I couldn't help there as I prefer Audi standard wheels. What are you doing with the 17"? Are you selling them?

Cheers

Marco

[inertia]

May sell them for the right money, or may just garage them for if / when i sell the car in years to come, the new buye rmay prefer stock rims.

[dansansome]

imho, the S4 or RS4 rims look great on any audi.



there are a choice of genuine audi rims here

http://www.croftmotors.co.uk/accessories.asp

[bonerp]

how about these?? They are finichi something or another

[lucas88]

Those "dotz" euro ones look the best I reckon. Pretty sweet. How much can you get hold of them for?

[inertia]

The Dotz with tyres I want are ropughly £1200 , i woud lhave them if the spokes were darker, but they dont do a version with darker spokes.

Good news though, my local (none internet) wheel place,which i only just got around to checking, can get me a set of 19" TSW Thruxtons , the price is £1270 with F1 eagles on, I've paid for them, expecting them on Monday / Tuesday next week. I will post pictures when my cars all sorted and has them on.

Thanks
Mark

[inertia]

My bodyshop have taken forever with this car (they are snowed under), but it will defiantly be ready for me to collect after work tommorow.

I went to check progress today, and took some very bad photos on my phone :

http://www.markandrews.me.uk/A4/bodyshop%20March%2008/

Bear in mind its up on the ramp so the rim is hanging down on slack supention, the rims will sit fairly snug like my old ones did in this (much better) pic once its on the ground :

http://www.markandrews.me.uk/A4/Jan08/24012008225.jpg

also my new bck boxes have 4 inch tips, so the paint on my rear splitter needs a week to harden before they can go on.


I will take pictures of it completed and on a better camera in better light over the weekend.

by the way my old rims are gettign recodnitioned to be like new, and will be for sale for £400 with 1/2 worn Eagle F1 tyres on.

[gabriel]

Dare Motorsport-19"

[SHAZA4]

looking very nice mate.

i have the same car in the same colour,mine has the votex kit onit.

i just bought some wheels from germany,19" RH Toplines,9.5J all round.

hopefully getting them tommorow so will upload some pics of mine.

get some pics up when its finished mate.