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Best Wheels on e60? Post your pics!!!

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Would love to see your rides with different shoes, havent really found the right ones for my interlagos.
 
#797 ·
50th Anniversary 20" BBS LMs in all gold. At the time of purchase, they were 1 of 2 sets available in the US. I miss my M5.

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Traitor!!!
 
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The flaking is getting to me. Was planning to drop my car off next week to have my wheels powder coated, but have to to make a quick trip to Chicago for lunch instead.
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#807 ·
Same color Woody? When I had the wheels on my X5M refinished, I looked at different color options on Prismatic Powders' website and got a few swatches sent (free). Then I bought 5 lbs of the color I wanted and had the wheel shop used it for the refinishing. Love the color so much, I bought another 5 lbs to redo the wheels on the M5. :)

Should check them out.
 
#808 ·
Having OMS send the wheels to the same shop, that disassembled and rebuilt all my street and track wheels for the e28. I'm going to go with the same bronze/copper color on the e28.
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Looks really good, love Sepang. One thing to consider. I don't know if there's a difference in thickness between the oem rotor mounting plate and the Brembo rotor hat. My calculations were based on the brembo hat so that may explain some of the differences in offsets between the 2 setups. Never had more than 1 other person in the car so I don't know if it'll rub fully loaded. When I was dialing in the KWs, they were too low and the compression was way to soft which led to some rubbing going over dips. Once adjusted no issues. I was also able to shave close to 190lbs off of the curb weight (seats, battery, exhaust, brakes, wheels/tires) I'm sure that helps as well.
 
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Thanks. The color has grown on me as it wasnt my first choice.

The rotor should be 1-2mm difference which is not significant.
If you wrote down you calculations please share it.

I think weight might be my issue as i can medicate it by using the EDC in standard/sport mode.
My car has zero weight savings and we travel with a full trunk and toddler in the back seat.
The good thing is, i don't have this problem in Germany,Austria or Switzerland as the roads are very good. Italy/France... Rub central. Spain, Don't even think about it.

Your fitment is just perfect. Post some more pics if you have.
 
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Refinished my Neez QD7 wheels in dark grey sparkle powder coat.....

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I think they came out pretty well.
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#842 ·
Ha! Thanks! These guys have now refinished 13 of my wheels. Never fail to deliver on the quality -- even repaired a dent on one of the wheels.
 
#846 ·
I am not a huge fan of dark wheels on BMWs anymore like I once was.

My project car came with some that were powered coated a dark gunmetal grey. And the brake calipers were painted gold. Not a good look at all. It was so bad I was going to paint the brake calipers a different color.

But I ended up putting on some M5 competition wheels from a 2013 BMW M5. The siler wheels with gold brake calipers look great to me. Saved me from another project - painting the calipers.

They do not look as good as V10PWR, Shieldze1025, MPower338 or IndyRedBeast. But I was able to get them on a budget at $1,100.

Henry
 

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Refinished the center caps, which looks so much better.


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