Vote Which Wheel for me?

I am getting down to picking out wheels for my ride. I have a 2006 aveo5. I am sorry this is not the best picture but at least you can see the snow we got in SC the week before. I want to go with black wheels as black goes with everything. I also wanted black as once the car get's moving, then you can see into the brakes.

Here is the pic of the car
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Here is wheel choice number one Maxxim SE10
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Here is choice number two Motegia FF7:
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The Motegia FF7 wheel has a cover over the wheel nuts. Has anybody have any experience with this wheel? I like the looks of the wheel but I am leery of the hub cappy thingy.

Oh yeah, I forgot, I am open to suggestions, comments, criticisms, and whatever. I am looking at Custom Tires, Custom Wheels, Tires and Wheels Packages, Parts and Accessories for your Car, Light Truck, and SUV from Performance Plus Tire for my retailer. Does anybody know anything about them? And on the poll, the haters option is not really about hate, it's just both wheels don't appeal. I thought it would be a little funny.

As a person who is not a fan of dual drilled wheels I would go with the motegis.

I had a set of BBS with a cover like that, it twist locks into place. The ones I had were pretty solid and I got the rims used. U needed a rag and a pair of channel locks to get them off though. The rag to keep from scratching the cover. I don't have an opinion on wich rims u should use, I just wanted to share some knowledge.

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Originally Posted by daug1502

I had a set of BBS with a cover like that.... I just wanted to share some knowledge.

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Daug, thanks very much! I have an additional question linking back to Rabbit's post. Did your BBS wheels have the additional holes for the different offsets? I think finding wheels with the dedicated 4 holes with the 100mm offsets is going to be hard to find. At least in the low cost wheels.

Do both of the wheels have white lips? I don't know if I'm seeing things or not on my ancient work monitor.

i think they are "polished"

you can buy single drilled wheels, you just look a little harder, or run a set with a center cap. they look more appropriate to me because it takes away the "universal" fit to help it work with your car..

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Originally Posted by waggums

Do both of the wheels have white lips? I don't know if I'm seeing things or not on my ancient work monitor.

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I think the exposed part is the exposed metal on the wheel. This can be an advantage to paint that part to match the car. (if the paint holds up). I am beginning to notice that getting detailed specs is damn hard. Like what metal or weight.

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Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit

you can buy single drilled wheels

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Rabbit, I have a question. Is your objection, looks, mechanical or both for wheels that are drilled for two different hole spacings?

My BBS rims were originally from a mazda miata so they were dedicated 4x100 drilled holes. I don't know if they were stock or aftermarket I just know what I was told by the guy that sold em' to me and that they would have fit my honda but not my aveo.

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Originally Posted by xintersecty

Rabbit, I have a question. Is your objection, looks, mechanical or both for wheels that are drilled for two different hole spacings?

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somewhat for looks, if you get rims in the right size, style etc that really flow with the car, single pattern wheel look like they belong like it might have came that way from the factory.. OEM+ style.

But i have seen some wheels shatter around the bolt pattern with so many holes in them, mostly the dual 5 lugs. thats why the hubs are so thick anymore and you have to use the small special lugs. just to have enough "meat" in the rim to keep it from breaking.

i know all the cheaper wheels are typically dual drilled, but often you can find them in a single drill original (as all cheap wheels are copies of something else) for not much more, and it will give a cleaner look, and be a better quality rim..

but if your drifting, racing or anything else i know price matters, because when you smack the back wheel off a curb and break it when your sliding sideways through a turn, you want replacement wheels to be a cheap as possible.. and typically have a set (or two) sitting idle in the staging area.

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Originally Posted by daug1502

My BBS rims were originally from a mazda miata so they were dedicated 4x100 drilled holes. I don't know if they were stock or aftermarket I just know what I was told by the guy that sold em' to me and that they would have fit my honda but not my aveo.

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they are all 4x100, but the hub bore on a miata is 54.1? isn't a honda 56.1 just like a mini? an aveo is 56.6 and a vw is 57.1.. so if you bore out the rim (common) then you could run any of these..

I got some additional info on the Motegi FF7 wheels. Even though the wheel has a hub cap thingy, the wheel supports both 4x100 and 4x4.5 bolt patterns.

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Also I not sure if I had mentioned this or not, I am going with 16x7 and that looks like the best compromise between ride quality and performance.

All I know is they would fit on my honda, the bore didn't was close enough I guess.

if you were going the cheapest route..

for $302 shipped you could get these from discount tire direct:
http://www.discounttiredirect.com/pr...ev.gbm.ang.jpg

then tires i assume a 205/45r16 is what you decided (too big for me:P )

achilles atr sports are $265 shipped off ebay. decent tire for the price, better than some much more expensive tires..

that could be @ $625 installed..

I prefer the mAxXim wheel better than the other for simple reasons like the no hub center thing(freakin theives jack those alot here) and idoesnt have those rivet looking things either. also the simple design of a six spoke vs the other wheel and as was pointed out you can possiblly paint the lip of the wheel to match the car and makem even more custom/unique. Just my.02 and good luck with whatever wheel you choose.

im a hater apparently :D

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Originally Posted by thehunterooo

im a hater apparently :D

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You are my HERO for taking the Hater's option. If we only had Z34 we could have two haters, sniff. I suspect I am going to vote for the apathetic option as I was too wussy for not making up my own mind....

Voted apathetic on appearance. They're really similar. :D

I'm a weight weenie though: whichever is lighter (all else being equal) would get my nod.

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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

I'm a weight weenie though: whichever is lighter (all else being equal) would get my nod.

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I am having a hard time finding weight specs. If I go to the manufacture's website, I get nothing. You would think that they would have numbers for their wheels.

You should find a set of used VW wheels for a mk1 to mk3 Golf or Jetta, better quality, same bolt pattern, cheap, you just need to change your nuts so that they seat properly inside the wheels and you are done.

Edit: not single bolt pattern you stupid me!

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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Voted apathetic on appearance. They're really similar. :D

I'm a weight weenie though: whichever is lighter (all else being equal) would get my nod.

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I'm with metro weight weenie, they're so similar that the lighter one would get my vote.

my vote would go to motegi, that is if I can figure out how to select a vote anyways

Go for it Paul - you can vote now if you really want to. I reopened the poll. :P

(It just had a short expiry date when xintersecty made it.)

Here is my latest updates on wheels, my car and what not..... Been super busy with work and moving out of my place in Raleigh. I have a spoiler to put on my car and then to install coil over springs. Those are my next two big projects. I finally got tools in my place in Seneca where I can do such...now that it has decided to quit raining maybe this weekend for the spoiler.

I was forced in buying tires for the car which commits me to my current wheels just a bit longer. Once I get my suspension re-worked I can then start looking at that option. At least when I make that commitment I can then compare good suspension crappy wheels and give an evaluation on performance.

So back to work and do yet an other firmware download....sigh.

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Originally Posted by MetroMPG

Go for it Paul - you can vote now if you really want to. I reopened the poll. :P

(It just had a short expiry date when xintersecty made it.)

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Thanks MetroMPG! Considering at my rate for buying new wheels that date seems about right.....