mojo - yep - they've been cleaned/ waxed and going to be stored in the shed for if/when I sell the car.
I think it would be harder to move a Pirelli without the most overt external signs that it is a legit one.
I considered this wheel an OEM replacement, so wasn't chasing super lightweight numbers, but rather good looks and decent girth
Seeing them used/abused by drifters helped a lot with this. I also saw the colourway working nicely together without being as brash as gold or as dark as gunmetal can be.
I had
12.5kg in my mind to beat, as this was the weight of the 17" classix on my older GT Sport TSI.
So while these are lighter than those GT wheels, it is not by much - coming in at
11.8kg for the one I weight on my bathroom scales (not a particularly accurate device, but they're digital and seem pretty accurate).
The alarming thing... I put a Pirelli wheel on there, expecting mid 12s at least... one 18x7.5 was 11.4kg!Which does make sense - two less spokes and an inch less width - but wow! those wheels are pretty light for standard OEM.
So if anything - I've got an overall GAIN of 400g/corner for an extra inch of width and 5mm of sweet arch-filling offset.
Someone can do the boffin-style unsprung-weight-rotating-mass-mathematics and tell me it is actually more than that, but I don't really want to hear it ;)
RR - My race wheels - the ones in my sig - are lightweight 17x8 wheels, but I wouldn't run those on the road.
They are
7.7kg/corner with R spec rubber on them.
I have no regrets, I think the work XT7s look great, and sure I'd like them to be lighter... but overall just I love looking at my car now :)
Cost was around $2k AUD for the wheels (around 1100 pounds), add on another $700 AUD or so as they were air shipped individually (creative accounting).
I'm sure you could get the shipping cost down more if you were willing to wait for the slow boat to cross the pond from Japan.
But they took about 4-5 weeks to make, so I was done waiting and wanted them on a plane!
