what rims have you car/s seen?

[niko]

i can remember my 1st ford was the ea ghia which had the factory alloy turbo blades,

i updated these, some may say downgraded, to xf ghia rims, the chris x cross pattern really suited the silver slate, these were pinched from dad best tyres i have ever had! michelin x. they stayed on for nearly a year!

then i got my hands on an ed fairmont, my only plan was to put turbo blades on it, they ended up on mum's falcon S, which still look great today!

my 1st set of steelies, 14" came factory on my 91 ea gl woooooo, caps rock!

they didn't stay on to long and were swapped for my retro 3 spoke chromies with plenty of dish, i forget what they were called, i managed to score some BBS rims off my bro later on which were in 17" which i would have kept for the EL but i saw them on quite a few bombs and thought they cheapened the rim.

The EL got robbed of the standard fairmont rims, ASAP! they are the crappiest looking stock alloys ever, intaceptors and el gli caps roxzor, i then scored some EL Saphires which i reckon look very similar to the caps but in alloy form lol


Most of the rims i speak of can be seen here, in n1ko does E-Series:
http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=76678

and if anyone is wondering the big rims in my avatar were on my merc, a nice set of 18" amg copies

[Polyal]

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[niko]

rims do make a car, just look at snypers, grandpa boy :P

[frost]

I went from EA-Spak rims, to Turbo Blades now to FTRs and at one point I had a set of Speedy 18's on

And to Poyrals post wtf man? Its a good topic, Rims are one of the easyist common mods and distinguishes someones car!!!

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by niko

rims do make a car, just look at snypers, grandpa boy :P

LOL...yes I agree, which is why I like mine. Bigger doesn't always mean better. Just need to lower it and it will be sweet.

Also grandpa spec means no cop attention which is a nice change.

That pic was in reference to the shameless plug of your other thread...just a joke. :eclipsee_

edit: you just inspired my new profile line!

[niko]

i got pulled over on a set of snowflakes BEAT THAT! :P if you look in the photo i was dam low with that car (1st pic in silver slate- champaigne colour for all you that don't know)

well everyone always complains when there is no pics...was easy to link my write up which shows most of my rims


it will look sweet though, i wanted the same rims on my el!


in ref to your edit: ATLEAST DITCH THE GRANNY FLAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Felony]

hehehehehe gotta love those damn turbo blades :P

[Polyal]

LOL...had nothing to do with the fact that you were sideways around a corner ;)

My last ea had came with some ROH ZS's, they were pretty scratched so I painted them black, and kept the lip silver and then it got some EF XR6's

[Polyal]

Originally Posted by niko

in ref to your edit: ATLEAST DITCH THE GRANNY FLAPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even when the superlows are in, the flaps stay if I can help it :

Ill cut them shorter if I have to. My last car had chips all over the rear bumper, this one is good and it will stay that way.

[niko]

i was actually driving around without headlights lol

didn't even notice as with the ghia's the dash is fairly lit up- cop was really cool about it

i was packing myself, was dam low, had the big exhaust with the auto and tint you couldn't really see through, copped a breathalizer and i was off

Originally Posted by Polyal

Even when the superlows are in, the flaps stay if I can help it :

Ill cut them shorter if I have to. My last car had chips all over the rear bumper, this one is good and it will stay that way.

it will be difficult to keep them, as it will scrape hardcore and if you cut them they will loose that nice grandpa groove that they come with :P

[arm79]

Mine has been nothing special...

Car came with a set of factory FTR 16's... Had those for a few years until I found a brand new set of EL GT's...

That set was on the car for just over a year, then it rolled on stockies when I sold those GT's to replace them another brand new set of GT's I had just purchased.

My replacement Ghia came with genuine AJR Signatures, but they only lasted on the car a week until I put the GT's back on once I salvaged them from the insurance company.

[Poetic Justice]

Being an EL Ghia my car would have come factory with the Ghia rims (duh).... then had polished FR18's on it... then when I got it it had the EL GHia wheels back on.... then copped EL GT's (copies) and now has 18" BF GT copies.

[The MaDDeSTMaN]

Originally Posted by Polyal

Even when the superlows are in, the flaps stay if I can help it :

Mudflappistman would be proud, hahahahahaha!

My car has had:

15" Factory Ghia
16" EL XR
17" Gladiators
15" Turbo Blades
15" Stockies with EF Futura hub caps (same as ebmanul's)
15" Plain black Stockies
17" AU1 XR
17" AU2 XR
17" AJR's (FairmontEL's ones)
17" EL GT's (only for a day)

car looked best with the stockies and the AJR's IMO.

[mcflux]

I started out with 15" EB1 Ghia snowflakes, like the BMW ones rather than the XF/EA ones. When I had my XE I was hanging for a set of XF snowflakes! But I never got around to getting any so the GL painted steelies stayed.

Now I've got 16x9" Contra rims! Pics can be seen in my Workshop Builds thread (plug plug eh Al :P)

http://www.fordforums.com.au/showthread.php?t=74579

[Dezza]

I've only ever had turboblades on my car. For about 6 months, they didn't have centrecaps, but that's changed

[Kenaz]

15" EL Ghia rims (duh)
16" EL XR rims, genuine
17" EL GT replicas

[mcflux]

fake replicas? :P

[Kenaz]

Originally Posted by Ghia5L

fake replicas? :P

umm... :

[mcflux]

damn you edit boy :P

[SwarvJarv]

mine had white simmons 15" V5's when i got it......but due to missfortune i now have stock EA 'snowflakes'.... :(

wouldnt mind some GT copies though....

[Walkinshaw]

EL Fairmont rims
17x8.5 ELGT
14x7" wire wheels

[snypereb]

14's Hubcaps
17's BA XR's
18's FPV GTP's
19's FPV GTP's

All within a year and a half.

Im a rim whore

[niko]

next is 20's huh snypes?

[Damo]

i had sum rimz

[niko]

cool...

[RUQ1KA]

haha this is what my cars have had,

1st EA: snowflakes

ED: stockies with hub caps --> Ef ghia rims --> EL GT's

2nd EA: snowflakes --> EL GT's --> ef ghias

AU xr6: AUIII xr rims

XE: jelly bean mags --> EL GT's and then back to jellybeans

VX: stock 16" alloys --> 15" black stockies added yesterday

EB wagon: Eb spac 5 spokes

[Nashy86]

I've only got turboblades, but the best rims I reckon are AJR Directors (as seen on onereded). From the first time I saw them in his garage when he got them I've wanted a set, spewing that I couldn't afford them when he wanted to sell the other day

[naughtyfalcon]

the ea has only had turbo blades on it,,i want some of those 5 spoke rims to up date it a bit,,

[niko]

au2's or el gt's?