The OEM Wheels on the "wrong" car thread (Read OP)

[Eunos_Cosmo]

ND on NBs.

How about an NC on FD wheels?

I like this combo so much it actually makes me want to get an NC just to put FD wheels on it. Funny as I think they look pretty bland on the FD.

@TexRex got yer sidewalls over here

 

[MatskiMonk]

E39 M5 Style 65 Double Spokes on an E34 525i Tourer...

... this was my car. I don't go for swapping wheels personally, but this car came for £0, with them already fitted.

 

[Vegard]

I have 205/60R16s at 2,8 bar

What kind of wear pattern do you get?

 

[05XR8]

Prius on GT86 Wheels

Mazda 2 on MX-5 (ND) Wheels

At my old Mazda dealer, we did a Soul Red 2 hatch on the ND wheels. made it available as a dealer installed option.

Another thing about the sidewalls, if it doesn't have white walls, red lines, yellow moons, orange stars and green cl...ahem.. or raised white letters, makes it a balloon tire with no soul.

 

[-Fred-]

*Proceeds to show several images of cars that don't look anything like as good on R33 wheels as an R33*

Tastes are subjective. I think they look really good on the FC RX7, personally.

 

[SVX]

How about an NC on FD wheels?

I like this combo so much it actually makes me want to get an NC just to put FD wheels on it. Funny as I think they look pretty bland on the FD.

@TexRex got yer sidewalls over here

I'll go a step further: R32 wheels.

Speaking of, obligatory:

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Don't like R33 wheels on anything. However, I like R32 wheels on everything.

edit: @SVX

The Rays FD wheels (from the Type RS I believe? ) are kind of similar to the R32 wheels, and also look great on the NC:

Damn the NC has a great shape. Blows my mind how awful Mazda set them up (suspension height and wheel design) from the factory. The grand touring 'wagon wheels' are the absolute worst.

 

[homeforsummer]

Don't like R33 wheels on anything.

I think the problem for me is that on anything but an actual R33, they just look like some cheap 1990s TSW wheel or something. The flat silver paint, the uncomfortable curve to the spokes, the fairly generic design. The baffling thing is they're probably more expensive to get hold of than wheels that would suit all those other cars much better...

 

[Tornado]

Didn't the MR2 come with wheels that were similar to that anyway? They look very familiar.

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Pre-facelift BRZ on WRX wheels.

About 6 million percent better than the god-awful two tone wheels the BRZ/86 were cursed with.


...and on Legacy GT wheels

A little 00s feeling, but not bad.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

Lexus with BMW rims

 

[Eunos_Cosmo]

Speaking of VIP....

How about a Y34 M45/Gloria on R35 GTR wheels?

I don't like some of the other additions...but damn I love the Y34

 

[GranTurNismo]

Some more Miata:

NC on RX8 rims:







NB wheels on an NA:





NA on USDM Civic SI alloys:





NC on 2nd-gen STI wheels:

 

[Volksauto]

the 2009 Mercedes-Benz F Cell Roadster came with 1886 Benz Motorwagen (Recreation) rims.
Mercedes-Benz and Benz were two different brands so this works?

 

[Greycap]

What kind of wear pattern do you get?

Completely even. Logic says that the centre section should wear more but apparently a modern radial tyre is stiff enough to resist the ballooning.

And to contribute to the thread, as a Volvo driver, a couple of common mods - FWD wheels, from 850 T-5R and 850R respectively, on RWD cars. Not a direct fit thanks to different offsets but spacers do the trick.

 

[Vegard]

What's wrong with sidewalls?

OK, I see your point now.

 

[VolkswagenX]

 

[Jean Foisy]

This Supra has R35 rims

 

[GranTurNismo]

Alfa 164 Speedlines on a 146 work pretty well.











Here they are on a GTV:

 

[Pupik]

'02 Sport Design GS 300 wheels on a '94 GS:

I miss this car sometimes.

 

[VXR]

Alfa 164 Speedlines on a 146 work pretty well.











Here they are on a GTV:

The 145 is a massively underrated hatch design. Love seeing them, which is obviously super rare 20 years on from the last of them.

 

[Danoff]

This Supra has R35 rims

You do have to love the "it needs an even bigger wing" folks.

 

[GranTurNismo]

Subaru SVX on 2nd-gen STI wheels:



3rd gen STI wheels:



This one may be slightly controversial, but I think pre-facelift RX-8 work sort of well.

 

[SVX]

These ones are Version 10 STi wheels.

 

[Tornado]

Was going through my photos and I remembered this thread.

Pontiac Bonneville SSEI wheels. I hated chrome.

It was so nice of GM to use the same bolt pattern and roughly the same offset on every FWD car (and a couple RWD ones) bigger than the Cavalier, for like 25 years.

These ones are Version 10 STi wheels.

Eh, what do you know about SVXs.

 

[Jason115]

Porsche 996 Turbo rims on 1st gen Audi TT.

 

[GranTurNismo]

Audi 100 S Coupe on Porsche 928 wheels.



2nd-gen MX-6 on RX-7 wheels.





Scirocco on Porsche 968 rims.

 

[GDII]

GEN1 JDM SW20 on Mazda Capella Infini wheels.

 

[Gotbeefboy564]

 

[GranTurNismo]

70s Civic Wagon on '99 SI wheels.



E34 5-Series with E39 M5 rims.



E39 5-Series with E60 5-Series wheels.







E36 Coupe on AMG Monoblocks