Hello , Nice R50

 

before i sold the car, enkei m52

 

Wow! Those Enkeis are perfect on your sold Mini. Color, design, size.

 

Those look nice. Again really dig the red roof and mirror caps on that dark silver, that should have been an factory option.

 

I have the same Team Dynamics wheels; they came with the car.

They were originally white, but the previous owner rattle-canned them flat black.

They looked alright, but the black was starting to chip. So I decided to take the wheels to a powder coater.

My first thought was to stick with black but maybe gloss black. Then I thought that would be boring.

After thinking about it for a while I decided to go with flat aluminum.
I just got these back last week, and I still need to get them mounted and balanced.

Can't wait to see how they look on the car!

Powder coated flat aluminum.





For comparison:

 

Sweet- they look hot!

 

What color is your car?

 

Me?

It is hyper blue metallic.

 

Sweet... what offset are your Team Dynamics Motorsport wheels?

 

I believe they are 45 offset.

http://new.minimania.com/part/G2NMW2...Mini-Cooper--S

 

Got three of the four OE wheels professionally refinished earlier this month. And then last weekend got them mounted and balanced with snow tires: two Pirelli's that I already had, and two brand new Yokohama snow tires.

 

Heads up if you have any significant tread depth differences in the two pairs of snow tires and decide to put the new ones up front... make sure you watch out for surprise rear slide outs when you make turns on snow. I drove a friend's Sentra to a repair shop (his back had gone out on him and couldn't drive) several years ago. He had installed a new set of snows in the front of the car and had a worn set on the rears. I didn't know that the tires had different tread depth. That car came around on slick snow very easily at slow speed. Didn't take much to do that on the greasy in town snow with a front wheel drive car no less.

He did install two new snows for the rear after that. It balanced out the grip differences. Just be aware of the possibility so you can be prepared.

 

Good to know. Thanks for the heads up!

 

Looks very nice, You dont want to know how many MINI Hardtops I have seen with there snow tire / wheel sets in the back once the weather changes.

 

Can't decide!! I know it's a personal call, but open to opinions... RSE12 or RSE52? Also trying to make a call on black or gunmetal on an electric blue R53. Both styles are available in either color. Plan is to wrap/spray the top and mirror caps (currently white) to match once a decision is made.

https://www.ecstuning.com/Mini-2005-...oys/ES2848180/

https://www.ecstuning.com/Mini-2005-...oys/ES2848149/

 

Thats a tough one. Black would looks good and the RSE12 has a touch of R112 challenge spoke looks to it. I would choose that for the R53. But its up to your personal style.

 

That's exactly the direction I've been leaning, but then I begin to question how overdone black is these days. Don't get me wrong, I've done it on plenty of my own vehicles! A part of me wants to try the gunmetal to be slightly different, but I know the black will look good with tinted out windows...

 

Everyone's using black wheels... gunmetal Rse12 wheels and matching roof and mirror caps might look really great with electric blue. I would vote for gunmetal.

 

I love black wheels but they have to be shiny. Just got my new wheels mounted up yesterday. Challenge Reps with 215/45-17 BFGoodrich g-force 2

 

If I may throw in my $0.02 . . .

I think the five spoke wheels in gunmetal would look awesome.

 

I got these 18x8 Team Dynamics made in the UK

 

answered you PM

 

This is what I want for my R53 Love it.

What would I have to do to my stock R53 ?

 

Coilovers, front adjustable camber plates, rear adjustable lower control arms, and probably front adjustable sway bar end links. I'd say that's the minimum to run that kind of setup.

 

I had a feeling it would be all that. Thanks for the input.