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Name of these wheels?
« on: November 14, 2013, 11:25:13 am »
Anybody know the name of these wheels? They're off a MK6 Ed35

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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 11:27:39 am »
They're the Edition 35 alloys.. Believe they are called Watkins Glen.
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2013, 11:30:13 am »
Quote from: xjay1337 on November 14, 2013, 11:27:39 am
They're the Edition 35 alloys.. Believe they are called Watkins Glen.

Well that produces results on Google, so it must be. What a strange name for wheels. Thanks man :)

Time to begin the hunt. Not going to be easy.
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2013, 11:35:59 am »
^^^^ That's them, great looking wheels too.  :happy2:

Have a look at the 18" BBS SR's. Look similar (ish) with a better width/offset for stance and room for a BBK if required....

Oh and they're cheaper!


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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2013, 11:45:22 am »
Quote from: MC71 on November 14, 2013, 11:35:59 am
^^^^ That's them, great looking wheels too.  :happy2:

Have a look at the 18" BBS SR's. Look similar (ish) with a better width/offset for stance and room for a BBK if required....

Oh and they're cheaper!


Hmm, they are nice, but not quite the same. Not as angular. Thanks for the suggestion though!
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #5 on: November 14, 2013, 11:46:19 am »
clearance on these is a an issue on BBK which is why my car has TSWs on it
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #6 on: December 24, 2013, 08:28:50 am »
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #7 on: December 24, 2013, 10:13:34 am »
Watkins Glen in a racetrack in the US, lots of GTI wheels are names after tracks.

Pointless obscure fact of the daaaaaaaaaay...
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #8 on: December 24, 2013, 01:00:15 pm »
Nah, cheers for that Tony! IIRC, the ED30 wheels are called "Rockingham" as well as Pescara, think thats a track too?  :driver:
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #9 on: December 24, 2013, 01:06:23 pm »
Monza of course.
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #10 on: December 24, 2013, 02:08:04 pm »
As Mike said there have been loads of VW wheels named after tracks:
As well as the previously mentioned theres also Long Beach and Le Castellet (Paul Ricard) from the MK4 Bora, Road Americas and Daytonas from the Passat range, Detroits from the ED30, Indianapolis from the Mk5 Talladega from the Mk6 R/scirroco, Austin from mk7 gti, that's just off the top of my head lol!  :grin:

Also some more pointless vw trivia, most of the models are named after winds  :smiley:
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #11 on: December 24, 2013, 02:18:19 pm »
I think Leon SuperCopa wheels would look very nice on a Golf.

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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #12 on: December 24, 2013, 03:28:54 pm »
Quote from: Beddie on December 24, 2013, 02:08:04 pm
As Mike said there have been loads of VW wheels named after tracks:
As well as the previously mentioned theres also Long Beach and Le Castellet (Paul Ricard) from the MK4 Bora, Road Americas and Daytonas from the Passat range, Detroits from the ED30, Indianapolis from the Mk5 Talladega from the Mk6 R/scirroco, Austin from mk7 gti, that's just off the top of my head lol!  :grin:

Also some more pointless vw trivia, most of the models are named after winds  :smiley:

The GTi wind? never heard of it ;)

Though Golf == Gulf Stream. This is why even though England is on the same latitude as Canadia, we are quite a lot warmer.
Passat ==Passatwind. is derived from the German word for Trade Wind.
Polo == Polar Wind.

This is fun :)
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #13 on: December 24, 2013, 04:33:30 pm »
Bora and Scirocco are winds too, think Touraeg is too  :happy2:
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Re: Name of these wheels?
« Reply #14 on: December 24, 2013, 04:58:49 pm »
Touraeg is the name of a remote African tribe. They were supposed to be a nomadic, noble people.

Now they are a group of terrorists.  :grin:
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