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Here is what I mailed them. 24hrs on and still no reply yet. Let`s see what happens.
Mailed ;
1. Do you still have them?
2. The new tyres on them, which brand and type of tyres are they and are they *brand* new or *not used much*?
3. Is the price negotiable (have to ask!) and what charge would be made to ship them?
4. Are the alloys immaculate (ie.taken off a brand new car for an upgrade) or have they been used, and therefore are there any kerb marks or other damage.
5. Are the wheels the original chrome-shadow finish, or have they been resprayed/repaired/refurbished at all.
Yes, they would be roughly £600 to £700 for new tyres, cheaper if they are cheapy tyres you`ve never heard of.
I know that a set of the wheels without tyres and a few scuffs generally sells for about £600-800 on Ebay UK, so this is not too bad a price for tyres and wheels. At least they are a BMW parts place, so it`s not as if you`re buying them from some bloke in a pub car park who relieved the previous owner of then involuntarily. I hope.
I suspect that the photo is a stock library picture, and probably not the actual wheels for sale.
The chrome shadow is notoriously hard to photograph correctly, plus as the E39 guys pointed out, the finish has changed over time. I saw a pic of a E39 M5 that the owner had replaced both rear wheels with new, and the rears were definately more shiny than the fronts.
The general consensus seems to be that the finish is a) impossible to repair once scuffed properly and b) different batches of the wheels have a different finish.
I`m not too worried, in fact I was considering buying the next scuffed set to turn up, then get them smoothed and painted black rather that a half hearted attempt by a dealer to repair the finish.
My 2 cents.
Ivan
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Last edited by IvanDias; 4th October 2002 at 13:43.
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