Anniversary MK4 rims on MK5.

[AJP]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

[mkmg76]

Just had a quick browse on this site and noticed the Audi S1 and 'new beetle' are both 5 x 100 - https://www.wheel-size.com/pcd/5x100/

If they have hub/bearing inserts like the MK5/6, you could be onto a winner!

Excellent, thanks for that mate. I'll get looking on the system this side and see if they match up bar the PCD.

Nice 

I don't know if it's because your car is white, but they almost look as if they could do with being 19s for a bit more presence 

I agree mate, they do look a touch small but the roads around where I live would not really be what you'd call 19" friendly and I like to drive my car, not pussyfoot around like some of the posers out there!

I don't have a side on picture but the don't look as small from that angle. It's one of the reasons I have such a soft spot for the RC's, the design of the spokes running almost all the way out to the lip makes them look much bigger than they are.

Fingers crossed those cars use the same setup!

Where abouts in Ireland are you mate?  I was driving around the Cork area about 10 years ago and I agree, the roads are 'interesting'    Slammed cars wouldn't do so well on the bumps!

Good luck with the project 
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I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

I'm in Meath but the roads when you get off the motorways no matter if you're anywhere from Cork to Donegal are all fairly similar, designed as a world rally stage from the off!  You need proper suspension if you're planning on tackling them with any kind of speed!

Unfortunately the hubs are not the same :( The VW items bolt in with 4 bolts but the Audi items appear to be an interference fit and possibly held on by the hub bolt on the end of the driveshaft......open to correction on that but definitely different.

Looks like it will be an engineering solution!

I've just finished renovating a house and have a 9 week old addition to the family so funds are tight as you can imagine but I am set on doing this, as has been mentioned, it's that clean/borderline tuned OEM look i'm after and I think the RC's are the wheel for the job.

Thanks for all the well wishes and i'll update when I have the hubs drilled/tapped.

Pics for comparison on bearings/hubs.

[pudding]

That's a shame!   I wonder if you could press the 5x100 portion into the back of the 5x112 section?   What I mean by that is every time you knock an old bearing out that got stuck in a MK5 bearing housing, half of the bearing pops out!   Just thinking if that happens, it must be easy to press in / out the relevant parts into the ball races?

[KieranM]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

[Ryan#1684]

You need to search the internet for a set of BBS RC 306's rather than the RC 336 that was fitted to the mk4 Anniversary.

The RC306 is 5x112 8" wide with ET32 compared to the RC336 5x100 7.5" wide ET38. So the RC306 should fill the arches better too 

[AJP]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

[pudding]

Wheel porn 

[mkmg76]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

Was thinking they must look very similar to the CSL wheel  by your description. Gorgeous wheel.   

[mkmg76]

You need to search the internet for a set of BBS RC 306's rather than the RC 336 that was fitted to the mk4 Anniversary.

The RC306 is 5x112 8" wide with ET32 compared to the RC336 5x100 7.5" wide ET38. So the RC306 should fill the arches better too 

I already have the wheels mate, there's enough money sitting here in wheels, tires, adapters and soon hubs and drilling without buying a whole other set of rims!! Although if anyone has a set they'd like to swap, I'm interested! 

[AJP]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

Was thinking they must look very similar to the CSL wheel  by your description. Gorgeous wheel.   

Yeah they're not a million miles away from CSL wheels. It's that classic Y-spoke design. BBS LM, CH-R, RC.... they're classics for a reason, because they're bloody gorgeous.

One wheel I'd love to run, with a big drop to do them justice, is Work VSXX. Apologies for thread drift, but......

[mkmg76]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

Was thinking they must look very similar to the CSL wheel  by your description. Gorgeous wheel.   

Yeah they're not a million miles away from CSL wheels. It's that classic Y-spoke design. BBS LM, CH-R, RC.... they're classics for a reason, because they're bloody gorgeous.

One wheel I'd love to run, with a big drop to do them justice, is Work VSXX. Apologies for thread drift, but......

Never an apology required for photos like that! Beautiful wheel/car. 

[AJP]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

Was thinking they must look very similar to the CSL wheel  by your description. Gorgeous wheel.   

Yeah they're not a million miles away from CSL wheels. It's that classic Y-spoke design. BBS LM, CH-R, RC.... they're classics for a reason, because they're bloody gorgeous.

One wheel I'd love to run, with a big drop to do them justice, is Work VSXX. Apologies for thread drift, but......

Never an apology required for photos like that! Beautiful wheel/car. 

Bit special aren't they! If I could find a wheel like the VSXX that didn't cost the earth and wasn't too heavy, in 19", I'd be all over it. Stunning.

[mkmg76]

That's a shame!   I wonder if you could press the 5x100 portion into the back of the 5x112 section?   What I mean by that is every time you knock an old bearing out that got stuck in a MK5 bearing housing, half of the bearing pops out!   Just thinking if that happens, it must be easy to press in / out the relevant parts into the ball races?

I was thinking that, have to grab both bearings and compare!

[pudding]

I drove past an Anni a few days ago. It was a nice reminder of how good a sorted mk4 could look. And yes, RCs are a stunning wheel.

There was a guy on ukmkivs (back int day) who had a nice little trade going refurbing and selling RCs, and only RCs, such was the demand.

There is (was) a wider version of the RC, with much more dish to the spokes. Might have been 8.5", possibly more. It was a thing of beauty! I honestly can't remember what it came off or whether BBS just sold it aftermarket, but I do remember seeing a few pics of a US mk4 with them on the rear (probably on air or something) and being completely infatuated. With a wheel.

Anyway, I like this idea. OEM, rare, and a classic. Best of luck getting it to work!

Im pretty sure the concave ones are BBS RC302, they are a very nice wheel and look amazing on a e36 BMW

Yeah that looks like them. Dishy goodness....

Was thinking they must look very similar to the CSL wheel  by your description. Gorgeous wheel.   

Yeah they're not a million miles away from CSL wheels. It's that classic Y-spoke design. BBS LM, CH-R, RC.... they're classics for a reason, because they're bloody gorgeous.

One wheel I'd love to run, with a big drop to do them justice, is Work VSXX. Apologies for thread drift, but......

Not feeling those so much.  Might be a combination of it being a 5 door and the ride height being too low for my tastes, but I do love a bit of classic Y action.

You can always rely on a set of Classic BBS to bring out the wheel nerds 

[mkmg76]

Bit special aren't they! If I could find a wheel like the VSXX that didn't cost the earth and wasn't too heavy, in 19", I'd be all over it. Stunning.
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They are gorgeous, only issue i'd have with them would be keeping the lips shining..........I have experience in this area, my MK1 and my old MK2 both had BBS RM's and they're a full time job to keep looking respectable!!





Plus despite my best efforts I couldn't keep the LM replicas clean so I'm reluctant to get another set of polished lip wheels. (As gorgeous as those are!).