looking forward to your picts! wait, i already posted that.

why do you guys run your Comps with caps? these are enthusiast sport
wheels....don't run with caps is the style here. mine came with
those aluminum caps.

already sold them. had comps on my old WRX. sold them as well.

You should do the same with your plastic caps. The cheap SSR sticker on the plastic cap makes it look even worse. The OEM logo plaque is part # 36136758687, only about $2 each from Classic MINI, or get them from your dealer.

or just remove those ugly caps in entirety.

Haha I think I'll be running the SSR's for now and then do the MINI Logo. Then MAYBE, the aluminum ones.

BUT, sorry to disappoint, won't be getting the wheels today. They are ready to be picked up but I'm not feeling so hot, so till Monday I wait. :(

wake- just let us know the address and we'll pick it up for ya and even
test them out. wink wink.

hope you feel better.

You're going to regret over the weekend.. Still a good idea to let the paint/clear cure before putting them to test.

I never got back on the computer yesterday buy my dad ended up picking the wheels up for me. They look brand new, they painted the inside of the barrel as well. Just checked one of the wheels with the car now and the color is perfect. I'll be putting the wheels on a bit later so I'll take some pics n post (without hubrings OR centercaps, centercaps are anthracite so they no longer match lol). And I'll be heading to Homestead tomorrow to meet up with bean and others for the track event.

^^ wat's the problem with you? picts picts picts!

you got a nice dad.

lmao I'm sick. I needed a friend to help me swap the wheels lolol.. It's dark out but i'll move the car to take some pics for you. I'll take some daytime pics tomorrow at the track if I'm feeling better...

BRB.. pics in 15mins

Shitty pics but you wanted them so badly I decided to put 'em up anyways. I'll take better ones tomorrow in the daytime. Photoshoot sometime next week so some high quality pics will be due shortly...

damn! they look fantastic!!! good job on them.

Hey those look great! Can't wait to see better pics

So WheelsAmerica takes in wheels with tires still mounted and they will fix the wheel, mount/balance the tires when you pick them up?

very nice looking!

Yep, they charge $129/wheel flat rate, this includes fixing the bends, re-machining, painting, clearcoating, etc. If you wish to have the tires remounted and balanced there is an extra fee of $20 per tire. Unmounting is not charged I don't believe.

As promised, here are some daytime pics (work on both cars was done at Absolute Motoring):







My bro's car (19" Sportecs, H&R Springs, H-Sport F&R Swaybars, GIAC Chip):

Wake/MCS: the wheels look great. sorry you weren't feeling well and i didn't get a chance to see them up close. next time. p.s homestead track weekend was a blast in spite of a couple of small setbacks....

wake- daaaaayaamn!!! that turned out nice. and your bro's Audi is very
nice too.

thanks for the info on the mount/remount. i have one SSR GT3 19x10 that
i scuffed like 2yrs ago that i want to get fixed (this is for my G). i ended up just
buying a new pair with S03's mounted from Alex since i wanted a spare
full set anyways.

Thanks for the kind words. I'm taking your advice Kenchan and I'm leaving the centercaps in my room. Just going to paint the brake hubs flat black to cover up the rust. Not entirely sure what the hell I'm going to do though. That one wheel that couldn't be fixed 100% causes some vibration but its not always vibrating. On smooth roads it fine, however on not-so-smooth roads there is still some vibration. I'm at a loss on what to do now.

when you paint the hubs, use at a minimum engine enamel paint.
MISFITOY used some rustoleum in some titanium metal color that
turned our REAL nice. I would do that if I was to do it again...
but the only problem with rustoleum is they don't warrant heat.
Mine is matte black using engine enamel.

As far as vibration, is the wheel pretty straight? how bad is it when
you spin the wheel freely? can you visually see it wobble?

i would check out a store locally that has a hunter balancer and see
if that helps. some times they can put weights on it to minize it more.

I was thinking of going for either Flat Black or that color MSFITOY used as that looks nice as well.

As far as the wheels. I'm not sure as I haven't really had the chance to check. I'll pass by the shop sometime to put it on the balancer and see how bad it is. Supposedly it's just 1 wheel that isn't spinning true. The others are fine and balanced. The 1 bad wheel was balanced but didn't even require weights.

Could part of the vibration I feel be that the very tiny sidewall offered by the 215/35/18 is just riding stiffer and picks up more of the road faults? If so I may have to sell these and make the switch to 215/40/18

if they perfectly match mounted the tire to the wheel they may not
have needed weights. i would have all 4 checked though on a hunter
machine just to be sure.

but before that, i would try putting your current 'front' wheels on the
back and see if that helps. (but you should still get them checked for
balance).

35 profile would not directly cause vibration. it could tramline (follow
grooves) more than a 40profile, but doubt that the profile alone would
fix your problem unless there's something wrong with your tire. im
still thinking your imperfect wheel is causing the vibration.

Thanks for the input. It's definitely the driver's front tire that vibrates. I drove the car quite a bit today and noticed it coming from there, hopefully putting that wheel to the back will fix it. Regardless I'll throw all 4 wheels on the balancer to double check them.

Also, what Hunter machine are you talking about in specific. We use a Hunter Machine at Absolute Motoring however I'm not sure what Wheels America used, I would imagine Hunter as well... There are several types though..

wake- yah, try that wheel on the rear and see if that helps.

As far as balancing machines, i look for shops that has a
Hunter GSP9700 Road Force (same as tirerack)

Hunter has a directory of GSP9700 locations: http://www.gsp9700.com/pub/search/findgsp9700.cfm

^^ very cool...

do they have a listing for the mounting machine TC3500?