Hello...
I've had my Sprint Blue S3 a wee while now and love it.. I previously had a 2.0tfsi quattro sport with updated rims and when I got my new S3 I liked the standard rims at 1st, then quickly got bored and thought that it was something that needed to be addressed... So anyway, I was having a look about and decided I wanted to go for 19's and had a look at my options, and as I found out, were very limited... I didnt want to go for cheap and nasty after markets on a S3 and also couldn't quite stretch my budget to a nice set of BBS alloys.. Having a look about I instanly fell in love with the 19" rotors that come on the RS3, but then after having a look at the price of these, it left me rather defeated... Then I came across the 19" hollow spoked rotors (which are made by BBS for Audi) and fell within my budget, although they were from an A4 Sline, I thought, why not give them a go... So anyway, after many headaches of whether or not they would fit, with e.g offset, width differences, what tyres to go for, without any rubbing under load or full lock, wheel poke and whether or not infact they were legal? I decided to invest and give them a try... I done hrs of searching and learning about offsets, to see if anyone had gave this a go before, learned a lot about it and also couldn't find anyone that had tried with these particular rims.... then thought maybe no-one has tried it for a reason...!? Despite this, still went ahead.. I thought maybe I could do something different and have the car slightly unique to what I have seen around my parts... I bought a couple of scrubbed tyres to test the tyre sizes, got some spigots as the centre bore is bigger and was good to go... I put them on the car and was unsure of the look at 1st, but the more and more I looked at them, I was starting to slightly fall for them... I'm asking for peoples opinions, before I go all out and order a new set of tyres for them as I respect all of your opinions on all things Audi to see if these rims are passable ... cheers in advance, Jacko
I've had my Sprint Blue S3 a wee while now and love it.. I previously had a 2.0tfsi quattro sport with updated rims and when I got my new S3 I liked the standard rims at 1st, then quickly got bored and thought that it was something that needed to be addressed... So anyway, I was having a look about and decided I wanted to go for 19's and had a look at my options, and as I found out, were very limited... I didnt want to go for cheap and nasty after markets on a S3 and also couldn't quite stretch my budget to a nice set of BBS alloys.. Having a look about I instanly fell in love with the 19" rotors that come on the RS3, but then after having a look at the price of these, it left me rather defeated... Then I came across the 19" hollow spoked rotors (which are made by BBS for Audi) and fell within my budget, although they were from an A4 Sline, I thought, why not give them a go... So anyway, after many headaches of whether or not they would fit, with e.g offset, width differences, what tyres to go for, without any rubbing under load or full lock, wheel poke and whether or not infact they were legal? I decided to invest and give them a try... I done hrs of searching and learning about offsets, to see if anyone had gave this a go before, learned a lot about it and also couldn't find anyone that had tried with these particular rims.... then thought maybe no-one has tried it for a reason...!? Despite this, still went ahead.. I thought maybe I could do something different and have the car slightly unique to what I have seen around my parts... I bought a couple of scrubbed tyres to test the tyre sizes, got some spigots as the centre bore is bigger and was good to go... I put them on the car and was unsure of the look at 1st, but the more and more I looked at them, I was starting to slightly fall for them... I'm asking for peoples opinions, before I go all out and order a new set of tyres for them as I respect all of your opinions on all things Audi to see if these rims are passable ... cheers in advance, Jacko
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