they never have wheels in stock and if you order you will wait 2 months and get the right wheels with the wrong tires and vice versa. I was going to order from them and stayed far away because of stories i heard on this board.

Discounttiredirect.com

a little more expensive, but you pay for reliability and customer service

 

i went to discount tire site - but none of the wheels really appeal to me. As for what I'm looking for - all I know is that I want a lightweight 18s - from a place that can mount and balancesome decent tires on them. Every place that sells wheels sells sets with tires usually doesn't offer much of a selection - if at all for tires. They usually just offer crap tires that you'll burn through in 5000 miles. THe ONLY place that I know that offers decent tires to choose from is tirerack.com.

My $$$ comes in tomorrow so I'll be calling up tirerack.com to buy eithe SSR Competition 18s with Conti ExtremeContacts or some BBS ones that I posted above - if I can get them to lower the price a bit. I'll let you kow if there is any haggling room for tirerack.com

 

OK - I finally settled on some rims for my 2003 accord. I best like them when they come it, or I'm screwed. But I do like the design, and they are LIGHT, ESPECIALLY for the price!

Here's the pic:

They are ASA LW5s - that are ACTUALLY MADE BY BBS! So I know these are quality. I only got he 1s - I have 18s on it now - and the ride is fine, but I'm getting it lowered this weekend - and that'll be sure to make things more uncomfortable, esp. if I got 18s.

Plus This still is a daily driver car - I'm not racing around every where - nor do I need the rims stolen.

Weight per wheel: 17.2 lbs!!! VERY good for only $184 a wheel. The SSR Competitions are 14.5 lbs a wheel in the 17s - but then agaqin, they cost almost $400 a pop - not the kind of money I need to drop on rims.

I was thinking OZ SuperLeggeras - but they are discontinued now - and they don't have the 17x7s in the grey I wanted - and can't get them anymore. They would have been nice at 15 lbs each - but still $280 a pop.

I went with 215/50/17 Conti ExtremeContacts THE BEST Ultra-High Performance All Season tire out there.

 

that was a QUICK decission! I hope that you like them On my car, 18" was not much different from 17". Certain tires are softer than others; how is the ride on the tires that you selected?

 

You're probably right - but there are no lightweight 18s out there without spending an arm and a leg. The 17.2 lbs for the ASAs is actually quite amazing for $184 each. THe next lightest 17 in wheel were the OZ superlegeras at 17.1 lbs (only 0.1 lb difference) in size 17x7s - and only available in silver, not in the darker satin silver the ASAs were - PLUS they are a good $100 more per wheel - and a very similar disign.

I decide - quite rationally - not to drop $419 each on the SSRs or $519 each on the sweet looking grey BBS rims i posted above.

All in all 17 lbs. for 17 in. rims at $184 is a hell of a deal - I like the design, and couldn't care less the difference between 17s and 18s - I'm not going to be going nuts in the corners too often. Plus the tires would have cost me more for the 18 in 235/40/18s as well. Like $40 more a tire.

PS ... watch on eBay in the coming week or two for some 18 in. Vault Chromies with 225/40/18 Conti ExtremeContact Rubber.