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Originally Posted by chuckd05
Thes 18" OEM wheels he still has were mine...
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Hi Chuck,
First -- my offer of $800 is still standing. Haven't heard from this party.
Second, if you read and re-read the edited beginning of this thread, the 18s are gone, and he's apparently selling 19s, instead. The tires in the current pictures are not Yokohamas but Potenzas. Also, I'd have to be there to measure, but these (in the picture) look pretty well used. If there's 30% left on a treadwear rating of 160, that's about enough rubber to get you to the tire store. (Small hyperbole!
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All four tires are under 1,000 miles and just them alone are worth more than the 800.
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I edited out the part about the slow leak, but a plugged Z-rated tire shouldn't be driven above street speeds. Collect and mount four of them, and you can have a nice 10-minute Youtube "drifting" video.
But it's still a crapshoot buying anyone's used rubber and rims, because alloy wheels are prone to a certain type of misbehavior. That's when you park safely next to a curb -- no curbage! no damage! -- but then have to cut the wheel sharply to exit. Your power steering, versus the curb sideways on the rim flange on a Rays forged ... who's going to win? And unlike steel rims, alloys aren't so easy to pound back into a semblance of round.
Well, that's just one little horror story. I got a set of supposedly pulled OEM rims for backup on my wife's last TL, and two of the four were warped to the point you couldn't get a good balance.
But I made a second mistake in putting them out at the curb ... because I could have gotten 60 cents/lb at the junk dealer.