buying rims
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Couple of ideas to check out rims on your car. 1, go to the yellow car gallery here at TMS and check out the different pics of yellow stangs. 2, go to tirerack.com. at tirerack you can look at different wheels on your car and change the color of your car to yellow to see what looks good.
rims that will always look good regardless of car color are the chrome bullits, chrome saleens replicas, enkei RZ-5 in black, foose nitrous, kaotik GT, etc etc etc.
Sam
rims that will always look good regardless of car color are the chrome bullits, chrome saleens replicas, enkei RZ-5 in black, foose nitrous, kaotik GT, etc etc etc.
Sam
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Check out the selection at Mustang Tuning. They just dropped the prices on a lot of their wheels. I ordered some 18" chrome deep dish bullitts yesterday.
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I bought the Deep Dish Mustang Tuning ones and I'm having a heck of a time getting the fronts to balance out right so there is no wheel shimmy. They are nice, but I'm going to get a GSP9700 alignment today. I hope they don't find any problems with the rim, so I'm not sure yet on the quality control.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(seaclam @ March 2, 2006, 10:21 AM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
I bought the Deep Dish Mustang Tuning ones and I'm having a heck of a time getting the fronts to balance out right so there is no wheel shimmy. They are nice, but I'm going to get a GSP9700 alignment today. I hope they don't find any problems with the rim, so I'm not sure yet on the quality control.
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Remove the retainer clips on the studs. Then the wheels will seat properly.
I bought the Deep Dish Mustang Tuning ones and I'm having a heck of a time getting the fronts to balance out right so there is no wheel shimmy. They are nice, but I'm going to get a GSP9700 alignment today. I hope they don't find any problems with the rim, so I'm not sure yet on the quality control.
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Remove the retainer clips on the studs. Then the wheels will seat properly.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Infinity @ March 2, 2006, 1:14 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Remove the retainer clips on the studs. Then the wheels will seat properly.
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Unfortunately, those have been removed and I am STILL having problems with wheel shake! Even after the
GSP9700 calibration, which did find that the original shop(which is a long time respected one)botched the balance, it still is not right. Actually, I think the GSP9700 made it worse. They said the wheel and tires are fine, but as soon as they saw the 1/4" WHEEL SPACERS, they said that they have seen spacers cause problems many times. Even at 1/4". So now, I'm looking at getting these different type of spacers that extend the hub. The factory OE's where fine. But because things are "hub-centric", the spacers are not helping matters. If this new type of spacer I get works, then it's cool, but at this point I would not recommend Mustang Tuning, unless you want to possibly go through a hassle. As the original shop threw away the boxes, I'm stuck and it's been like 15+ days. I hope to God these other type of hub spacers work or I'll have to buy wheels all over again as spacers could really be a joke.
Remove the retainer clips on the studs. Then the wheels will seat properly.
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Unfortunately, those have been removed and I am STILL having problems with wheel shake! Even after the
GSP9700 calibration, which did find that the original shop(which is a long time respected one)botched the balance, it still is not right. Actually, I think the GSP9700 made it worse. They said the wheel and tires are fine, but as soon as they saw the 1/4" WHEEL SPACERS, they said that they have seen spacers cause problems many times. Even at 1/4". So now, I'm looking at getting these different type of spacers that extend the hub. The factory OE's where fine. But because things are "hub-centric", the spacers are not helping matters. If this new type of spacer I get works, then it's cool, but at this point I would not recommend Mustang Tuning, unless you want to possibly go through a hassle. As the original shop threw away the boxes, I'm stuck and it's been like 15+ days. I hope to God these other type of hub spacers work or I'll have to buy wheels all over again as spacers could really be a joke.
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(seaclam @ March 2, 2006, 4:47 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
Unfortunately, those have been removed and I am STILL having problems with wheel shake! Even after the
GSP9700 calibration, which did find that the original shop(which is a long time respected one)botched the balance, it still is not right. Actually, I think the GSP9700 made it worse. They said the wheel and tires are fine, but as soon as they saw the 1/4" WHEEL SPACERS, they said that they have seen spacers cause problems many times. Even at 1/4". So now, I'm looking at getting these different type of spacers that extend the hub. The factory OE's where fine. But because things are "hub-centric", the spacers are not helping matters. If this new type of spacer I get works, then it's cool, but at this point I would not recommend Mustang Tuning, unless you want to possibly go through a hassle. As the original shop threw away the boxes, I'm stuck and it's been like 15+ days. I hope to God these other type of hub spacers work or I'll have to buy wheels all over again as spacers could really be a joke.
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You're not the first person I've heard of having issues with Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels. Met a guy at a car show last Saturday who has them and said he has a bad shimmy on the highway and the tire shop can't get it out. My neighbor owns a tire shop and has chrome 18x9's all around on his 05. He didn't get them directly from Mustang Tuning, but they sure look like the ones they sell, even the center cap. He is also having vibration issues he can't get rid of and is having the vendor take them back. Now get this - I have the Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels on my car. When the tech was putting the tire on the first front wheel, he asked me to come look at something (words I didn't want to hear!) and showed me how the wheel was wobbling on the balancer, and yeah buddy (!) was it wobbling! The machine was telling him to put an abnormally large amount of weights on the thing to balance it out. Well it must have worked because I have no issues, I mean not even a hint of shimmy at any speed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif[/img]
Unfortunately, those have been removed and I am STILL having problems with wheel shake! Even after the
GSP9700 calibration, which did find that the original shop(which is a long time respected one)botched the balance, it still is not right. Actually, I think the GSP9700 made it worse. They said the wheel and tires are fine, but as soon as they saw the 1/4" WHEEL SPACERS, they said that they have seen spacers cause problems many times. Even at 1/4". So now, I'm looking at getting these different type of spacers that extend the hub. The factory OE's where fine. But because things are "hub-centric", the spacers are not helping matters. If this new type of spacer I get works, then it's cool, but at this point I would not recommend Mustang Tuning, unless you want to possibly go through a hassle. As the original shop threw away the boxes, I'm stuck and it's been like 15+ days. I hope to God these other type of hub spacers work or I'll have to buy wheels all over again as spacers could really be a joke.
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You're not the first person I've heard of having issues with Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels. Met a guy at a car show last Saturday who has them and said he has a bad shimmy on the highway and the tire shop can't get it out. My neighbor owns a tire shop and has chrome 18x9's all around on his 05. He didn't get them directly from Mustang Tuning, but they sure look like the ones they sell, even the center cap. He is also having vibration issues he can't get rid of and is having the vendor take them back. Now get this - I have the Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels on my car. When the tech was putting the tire on the first front wheel, he asked me to come look at something (words I didn't want to hear!) and showed me how the wheel was wobbling on the balancer, and yeah buddy (!) was it wobbling! The machine was telling him to put an abnormally large amount of weights on the thing to balance it out. Well it must have worked because I have no issues, I mean not even a hint of shimmy at any speed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif[/img]
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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MTAS @ March 2, 2006, 2:06 PM) Quoted post</div><div class='quotemain'>
You're not the first person I've heard of having issues with Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels. Met a guy at a car show last Saturday who has them and said he has a bad shimmy on the highway and the tire shop can't get it out. My neighbor owns a tire shop and has chrome 18x9's all around on his 05. He didn't get them directly from Mustang Tuning, but they sure look like the ones they sell, even the center cap. He is also having vibration issues he can't get rid of and is having the vendor take them back. Now get this - I have the Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels on my car. When the tech was putting the tire on the first front wheel, he asked me to come look at something (words I didn't want to hear!) and showed me how the wheel was wobbling on the balancer, and yeah buddy (!) was it wobbling! The machine was telling him to put an abnormally large amount of weights on the thing to balance it out. Well it must have worked because I have no issues, I mean not even a hint of shimmy at any speed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif[/img]
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Yea, they showed me on the machine that at the first run it wanted 1.25 or so on one side and 4.00 on the other. But they were able to even those numbers out between the two. I'll try those othe type hub-spacers next that bring the hub out more rather than just a spacer. What a mess!
You're not the first person I've heard of having issues with Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels. Met a guy at a car show last Saturday who has them and said he has a bad shimmy on the highway and the tire shop can't get it out. My neighbor owns a tire shop and has chrome 18x9's all around on his 05. He didn't get them directly from Mustang Tuning, but they sure look like the ones they sell, even the center cap. He is also having vibration issues he can't get rid of and is having the vendor take them back. Now get this - I have the Mustang Tuning deep dish wheels on my car. When the tech was putting the tire on the first front wheel, he asked me to come look at something (words I didn't want to hear!) and showed me how the wheel was wobbling on the balancer, and yeah buddy (!) was it wobbling! The machine was telling him to put an abnormally large amount of weights on the thing to balance it out. Well it must have worked because I have no issues, I mean not even a hint of shimmy at any speed [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dunno.gif[/img]
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Yea, they showed me on the machine that at the first run it wanted 1.25 or so on one side and 4.00 on the other. But they were able to even those numbers out between the two. I'll try those othe type hub-spacers next that bring the hub out more rather than just a spacer. What a mess!
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