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My speedster is currently running chrome sprintstar wheels with spinners, and 165/80 tyres.

I had to part with the wide-5 steel wheels that I used to run on my speedster when I sold our split-screen camper van. They'd found there way onto that to allow proper rated tyres to fit at the rear as the 356 replica wheels the camper was on when I bought it had insufficient offset to allow this. (They were wide-5 mangels 5.5" rims with the usual offset of 15; the wheels i'd had on my speedster had a special-order (from CSP at the time) offset of 25, giving a valuable 10mm additional clearance at the rims. I had planned to put widened original 15" bus wheels on the van but the company I entrusted widening too had them for more than a year without managing the task.... and the bus was sold in the meantime...

So I'm bringing back as hand carry from the states some 45 offset wide-5 4.5x15 rims from Beck. I'm hoping that with my existing 165/80 tyres they'll give me that nice tucked in look.
Thinking of having them refinished in ivory, with polished drum skinz beneath
Should contrast the black bodywork nicely.

I'll post some before and after photos when done.

Simon

I know a good Powder coater that gets into all the nucks & granies of the wide five's.

Bloody hell, how big is your bag your putting them in as hand luggage???

I should have said checked luggage (doh!) but I've got them home safe and sound. They didn't even raise an eyebrow at check-in though of course TSA unpacked them and repacked them (for once, they repacked them as they found them rather than their usual poor effort)

I'm going to try a wheel refinisher in Basingstoke who fixed one of my C30 wheels for me when I ran it down a kerb a while ago. They have dealt with wide-5 steels before and had people bringing wheels to them from a reasonable distance away.

Simon

mdmax72 wrote:I know a good Powder coater that gets into all the nucks & granies of the wide five's.

Bloody hell, how big is your bag your putting them in as hand luggage???

Hi

I am also in the midlands and just about to get some wide 5s coated...would you mind telling me who you used please? Many thanks Ant.

Pm sent, were in the midlands are you??

mdmax72 wrote:Pm sent, were in the midlands are you??

Apologies for late reply, been travelling, cheers for the coater tip.

I am in Sutton Coldfield, how about you?

Spyder is having some surgery at the moment, new screen, converting to CSP Wide 5s and some silencers before I get an ASBO. Just the weather for it, 10" of snow!