Sport pack wheels

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Elrao

Original Poster:

11 posts

158 months

Wednesday 7th September 2011
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Anywhere other than bending over at a dealer to get these, or similar?

robgt

2,586 posts

168 months

Wednesday 7th September 2011
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What wheels ?Where ?

Adam2S

5,126 posts

183 months

Wednesday 7th September 2011
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have you considered buying a car with them already fitted? Cheapest option by a long way! smile

Elrao

Original Poster:

11 posts

158 months

Wednesday 7th September 2011
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Adam2S said:
have you considered buying a car with them already fitted? Cheapest option by a long way! smile
Not necessarily as those ive seen have all been more expensive cars to start!

JohnG1

3,485 posts

211 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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AM forged wheels are made by Alcoa. You could try and see if they have any supplier agreements elsewhere. I doubt it - I expect that AML simply use Alcoa as a bound supplier so you will have to trade through AML in some way.

Edited by JohnG1 on Thursday 8th September 07:06

tonyhall38

4,194 posts

222 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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come up on flea bay every now and then...

yeti

10,523 posts

281 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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Got mine on eBay from a broken DB9 Le Mans. An expensive refurb later and they're good as new! I got lucky as Mr Hall pointed me at them, they'd been badly listed and were on pg30 of the DB9 stuff!

There has been a set for under a grand which were trashed and a mint set for... Nearly £3k!

It's the only place though, they've a great second hand value as same tyres as standard.

A12DY B

59 posts

197 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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ebay or PH parts is the best place,

but as said all the sets I have seen fetch good money

zippycar

73 posts

210 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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As a guide, I paid £1500 for a set off Ebay just over a year ago with four good tyres and so not that expensive really.

Two wheels needed a refurb, but a couple of specialists (need spinning not just painting) in UK can do this for about £60 a wheel.

Keep your original wheels and flog the sports pack ones when you sell, almost zero depreciation.

One point to bear in mind, standard wheel nuts wont fit and AM want about £400 for titanium ones.

Go to DMS who will sort you out for less than a quarter of this.

mikey k

13,014 posts

222 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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zippycar said:
As a guide, I paid £1500 for a set off Ebay just over a year ago with four good tyres and so not that expensive really.

Two wheels needed a refurb, but a couple of specialists (need spinning not just painting) in UK can do this for about £60 a wheel.

Keep your original wheels and flog the sports pack ones when you sell, almost zero depreciation.

One point to bear in mind, standard wheel nuts wont fit and AM want about £400 for titanium ones.

Go to DMS who will sort you out for less than a quarter of this.
Assuming we are talking about the N400 sport pack ones
They are diamond cut faces so mre tha £60 a wheel to do properly
The stock wheels nuts DO fit I had them on my last Roadster.
IIRC Rick & DMS was doing some good deals.
Other option is to find a decent FORGED after market wheel that fits.

yeti

10,523 posts

281 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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mikey k said:
1) They are diamond cut faces so mre tha £60 a wheel to do properly
2) The stock wheels nuts DO fit I had them on my last Roadster.
3) Other option is to find a decent FORGED after market wheel that fits.
1) Indeed. Paid £450 for a 'cash deal' to get mine done, can;t fault the job though.
2) Wheel nuts do fit, pre-2008 wheels only used the titanium wheel nuts. So if your car has a later than 2008 hub, they won't work (I was informed on AMOC)
3) Know you of such a thing? Hard not to chav the car up with aftermarket stuff.

mikey k

13,014 posts

222 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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yeti said:
mikey k said:
1) They are diamond cut faces so mre tha £60 a wheel to do properly
2) The stock wheels nuts DO fit I had them on my last Roadster.
3) Other option is to find a decent FORGED after market wheel that fits.
1) Indeed. Paid £450 for a 'cash deal' to get mine done, can;t fault the job though.
2) Wheel nuts do fit, pre-2008 wheels only used the titanium wheel nuts. So if your car has a later than 2008 hub, they won't work (I was informed on AMOC)
3) Know you of such a thing? Hard not to chav the car up with aftermarket stuff.
My roadster was a MY2009 car with the N400 style Sport pack wheels and standard nuts confused
Finding decent forged alloys shouldn't be that hard if I new the width, offset & PCD of the orginal wheels

zippycar

73 posts

210 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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Standard wheel nuts would not work on my MY07 car, otherwise I would have used them, doh!

Lepsons in Swindon/Gillingham quoting less than £100 per corner.

Why the aggression, just trying to help the original poster?

Glad I've moved onto Mclaren , if this is what AM owners are like now!!

Houdi

3 posts

157 months

Thursday 8th September 2011
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I have just picked my Vantage up from Stratstone Cardiff having had the AM "Sportspack" upgrade completed. I went for the kit as I felt the original suspension was a bit too loose for my taste but I am not a fan of the sportspack wheels so might consider selling them. I will definitely be selling the original wheels.

yeti

10,523 posts

281 months

Friday 9th September 2011
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zippycar said:
Why the aggression, just trying to help the original poster?

Glad I've moved onto Mclaren , if this is what AM owners are like now!!
Umm... what aggression? Seriously, where..?

Enjoy your McLaren smile

mikey k

13,014 posts

222 months

Friday 9th September 2011
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yeti said:
zippycar said:
Why the aggression, just trying to help the original poster?

Glad I've moved onto Mclaren , if this is what AM owners are like now!!
Umm... what aggression? Seriously, where..?

Enjoy your McLaren smile
+1 I was simple stating a fact that contradicts your fact wink

jhw9

13 posts

155 months

Monday 16th January 2012
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Yeti, Happy New Year to you, I have sent a PM to you.