Calling all alloy wheel geeks.

kaiowas · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:24

Bit of a long shot but a mate over on IMOC has just managed to trash 3 of his rims (2 repairable, 1 of them not as you can see). Don't know much about them but he'd like to try and track down replacements if possible but first we'd need to know exactly what they are. All I know is they're pretty old and made by a company called 'RW' who were bought out by BBS. Goegle isn't helping me so I thought I'd try you lot.

Will Gill · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:38

they look like 3 door cossie wheels to me

Firestar_3x · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:40

Think they were the 15" BBS wheels that came with one of the original MK1 special editions.

kaiowas · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:41

Firestar_3x said:
Think they were the 15" BBS wheels that came with one of the original MK1 special editions.

Certainly looks possible as the mk1 is the same fitment as an MX5

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:43

How did he manage to brake 3 rims :eek:

Firestar_3x · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:44

http://www.miata.net/faq/wheel_weights.html

BBS OEM Alloys, came on the UK Special edition so i've been told, only 500 cars made so tracking them down could be hard.

kaiowas · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:48

Zip: Roundabout + wet + diesel + kerbs...

Looks like the MX5 ones are actually a similar style but slightly different. They only have 15 'spokes' whereas the damaged ones look like they have about 20 (can't count exactly as I don't have a pic of the full wheel)

Firestar_3x · 11 Oct 2006 at 15:52

Yea the spoked do look slightly smaller, i will hunt around see if another Mk1 came with similar wheels.

Sirrel Squirrel · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:02

kaiowas said:
Zip: Roundabout + wet + diesel + kerbs...

Looks like the MX5 ones are actually a similar style but slightly different. They only have 15 'spokes' whereas the damaged ones look like they have about 20 (can't count exactly as I don't have a pic of the full wheel)

diesel

I spun my car in the wet on a roundabout and no diesel was involved, wasn't even going that fast

Luckily I didn't hit the sides though and managed to do a full 360 lol

andi · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:45

Will Gill said:
they look like 3 door cossie wheels to me

Similar, but not quite..

penski · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:07

Firestar_3x said:
Think they were the 15" BBS wheels that came with one of the original MK1 special editions.

Not the same. :/

If you're facing three trashed wheels, I'd just get a new set of four...

I quite like the idea of an MR2 on Porsche Teledials...Plus mk1s (mk2 as well, if my memory serves me correctly) are 4x100 so hub adaptors are cheap and plentiful.

Actually...I think that would look fantastic.

*n