Ebay find...old Works in what appears to be an MS3-friendly fitment
 

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WORK WHEELS MADEL 17x8.5 +39 5X114.3 RARE JDM 3 PIECE:eBay Motors (item 270505164839 end time Dec-27-09 11:18:02 PST)

I considered keeping these on the DL until the last minute (with the thought of possibly buying them) but the fact of the matter is my fiancee would probably kill me no matter how good of a deal they are considering I have a wedding to pay for this Spring.

It's be REALLLLLY hard for me not to jump on these if I had a white car, but being as mine is silver I'd probably want to get them refinished in a more silver-friendly color, which makes them less attractive to me.

Somebody here ought to pick them up though!

they'd def look good on a vdub, not so much a MS3

x2 ^^

Theese are sick to bad I can't fit anymore wheels in my storage!! My car is broken

sorry silversurfer but if an ms3 drove next me with those on, i would punch the guy.

Lol I hope that guy has a "Tap Out" sticker on his car. Cause I hate those guys.
I would like to se theese on a ms3 for my final decision.

Buy I do like the wheels

But I do like the wheels

hahah when i first read that i thought you were going to say so he would kick my ass..

but it would certainly help to see them on a car, although im pretty sure i would still hate them. just clashing styles in my opinion.

those are def good looking wheels for that Euro look. but they dont work on our car and those are def "euro" style wheels that look good on vdubs.

take a look yourself. these style wheels look horrible on the MS3
http://www.mazdaspeedforums.org/foru...-offset-43821/

I think they'd look sick..
Tempting

ha I thought you were the track dude, these don't seem like wheels for use at the track

HAHA,


lets see how Christmas goes.

:grinning-smiley-042

Lol.

I don't really have any idea what these weigh, but it isn't likely I'd be using them as "track wheels" if I were to get them...

That being said, 17x8.5 et49 (with the spacers removed) wheels wouldn't be so bad for the track at all, really. Maybe not perfectly ideal, but not bad at all.

fkn hater! :fing26:

i personally love the look of those wheels and if i had money id pick them up in a heart beat. AND theyre in immaculate condition for such and old school wheel. hell they look fkn brand new! some people say they might not look good on an ms3 but i say you never know until you try. a lot of people didnt like my wheel by themselves. but they say that it works great on my car. and another reason to get them is they are QUALITY! none of that fake rota, konig, msr bullshit. these are quality jdm work wheels.

love that old school look. fuck the haters. fuckem hard. push the envelope. be unique. i say get them! and if you dont like them i might have to buy them from you tehehe. im a sucker for old school wheels.

ugly as shit

goddamn i wanna rock the shit out of those

be ugly.

they are jdm quality work wheels on the wrong car

and i think the wheels on your car makes the car look like shit...my personal opinion

being unique is always great but being too unique is bad

Those would look bad ass on a 240/280Z or an AE86.

An MS3? Not so much.

lol i will be "ugly".

haha hmm quality japanese wheels on a japanese car? yea wtf was i thinking. youre right japanese wheels would better suit a european car. hmm maybe some low quality tenzoR or konigs would be better for this import.

saying that this is the wrong wheel for a certain car tells me that you are narrow-minded. if you weren't then you wouldve worded it differently. like o these might not look too good on this car or something of the like. lol but no, you have already categorized these as "vdub" wheels. BUT if you look, this STYLE is of japanese descent. plenty of japanese cars back in the early 90's ran wheels like these.

lmao and being narrow-minded as you are or as i assume you to be, you would probably choose some type of cookie-cutter, super common wheel for your car like rpf1's or something (not saying they arent nice its just everyone and their moms has those wheels and in a similar size/offset). that or some really ugly, lackluster, cheap, low quality shit like enkei's whole "perfomance" line or some discount tire wheels or something lol. or you might be one of those people that is just concerned with speed and have no real taste/style of your own.

and apparently you do not care about quality either seeing that youre on dropzone springs aka the ebay special. and the only reason that someone would run dropzone on their car is due to them being cheap and not forking out the money for quality parts. nothing that low of quality should ever touch a car as nice as the ms3. i feel sorry for your car.

and i hope youre not trying to be unique by putting a mazdaspeed sticker on your fkn headlight and a medieval sticker slanted on your very rear windows. its not cool or unique, id call that fkn ricey as shiet.

and i would waay rather be too unique than fall into the monotony of the crowd.
but i dont think my car is "too unique". lol hell i dont see how you think its too unique. i dont have any aesthetic mods. i just have wheels. i think of my car as being clean, subtle, and tasteful.


and furthermore, youre post with my thread in it has no relevance. my wheel has nothing to do with the wheel in the OP. lol i can already tell you have no idea what youre talking about when it comes to classic jdm styles and euro styles. and i bet this is your first decently quick import car too. the only thing in common is that they both have rivets (common in multipeice wheels) and that they are JAPANESE. my wheels are in no way euro in either brand nor style. so this leads me to believe that you are also ignorant.

so you/youre:
1) Narrow-minded
2) Dont care about quality
3) Dont care about your car
3) Cheap
4) Ignorant
5) Have no taste or style

and from what ive gathered from this thread, the characteristics ive noted, and with what ive seen in your other posts, you seem like the typical, overly self-indulged douche bag. which explains absolutely everything lol.

and to you saying my car looks like shit, it looks better than your stock ricer ass shit. ol' asshole fiddy cent lookin ass.

... but thats just my opinion.



i wouldnt be so heated if my car/wheel choice was relevant to the OP in the way that you intented it to be. but its not relevant. I dont have a problem with you not liking my car (everyone is entitled to their opinion) youre not the first person to dislike my car. but it seems to me that youre just an asshole thats using this thread to blatantly bash on my car because you dont like it. and i dont appreciate or respect that in any way.

yeah not a fan of them for a mazdaspeed

You do realize that the MS3 is a budget FWD hot hatch, right? It's marketed towards people that want speed and handling on the cheap. Spending almost $3000 on a set of name brand wheels is a total waste of money to most people when there are 1000 other wheels out there that will do the same job for 1/4 as much money.

If you've got the money to spend, great, but being a "JDM wheel" fanboy is as retarded as shopping at Abercrombie & Fitch because of the name brand.

I've never understood why people put wheels that are completely the wrong offset and width on their cars so that the wheels stick out farther than the wheel wells. Add to that, stretching the tire to within an inch of it's life so it doesn't rub. Looks more like somebody accidentally got the wrong rims and was too stubborn or stupid to send them back.

dont worry dude, you arent the only one with rims that doesnt quite fit the look of the MS3 or at all. i would say yours is in the "dont fit at all" category. actaully most people with wheels on their MS3's get it wrong.

this car has a narrow selection of wheels that will actaully look good on it. for instance, dish wheels do not look good on this car...IMO

better yet, if you want... i can post many MS3's with wheels that look bad on this car.

its just my opinion but i feel that flush wheels look best on this car. at that point, it just comes down to finding the best looking flush wheel for the car.

Madvillian got it right. along with a few others.

all the money you spent on your wheels doesnt matter, you forgot the most important part, wheels may look good sitting in a box but they need to look good on the car as well

There's actually nothing really "wrong" about the width/offset of the wheels in the OP...

They're 17x8.5 et49 (or et39 with the spacers installed) wheels... :dunno:

yes we all realize that its a budget fwd hot hatch. and yes that it is marketed towards people that want speed and handling for a cost effective price. BUT not all people from that demographic buy this car and people from other demographics buy this car too. but just because its made to sell for that reason doesnt mean that it will be bought for the same reason. ive seen plenty of 30-50 year olds driving this car on the roads. ive seen this same 40 y/o guy with a silver speed like 5 times on the highway. hell ive even seen a 40 y/o woman drivng a red ms3 one time. no joke. and im pretty sure they arent racecar drivers in the least.

and no one here is spending 3000 on a set of wheels. the bid starts at 499 shipped. there arent too many good quality wheels out there for that cheap. and no one here is being a jdm fan boy. im just saying that japanese quality is most of the time better than what other people have been putting on these cars. if that comment was implied towards me, i have no other jdm things on my car except for the wheels and the lugnuts. i dont have no stupid "axela" badge, i dont have yellow foglights, i dont ahve any "jdm" stickers. im just a fan of old school japanese wheels. i do like other wheels too. unlike some people im open minded on just about everything.


stretching tires is not new. in japan, they call it Hipari Style. the stretched tire give the car a unique low pro stance while increasing the sidewall rigidity. In drifting, less sidewall flex means smoother weight transitions, improved throttle response, better steering feel, and less body roll when cornering. but ive also seen that it has become a style among the vip/bippu cars as well as the bosozoku style of cars.

European people started doing this due to legal necessity. Local laws there require that the tire tread be within the fender line and with wider or lower offset wheels that can cause problems. To maintain the wide wheel fashion and keep the car street legal, narrow tires are stretched over the wide wheels.

As Americans, we're just late to the game. ive seen stretched tires on low riders and "swangas" and slabs. we've also imported the bippu style car which uses the Hipari style. but yea i think in america, i think its strictly a style. its uses in drifting still are active among the amateur/ pro am groups. there are no laws against tires being outside the fenders. we're just bringing the characteristics of other nations' car culture here. america is just one big ass melting pot comprised of other nations cultures as well as our own.




lol i dont think you understand. the flushness of the wheel has nothing to do with the style of the wheel. i can agree with you flush wheels do look good on any car. but any style wheel can be made flush. lol this is where you confused me. please show me a pic of a flush wheel. but off the car. you cant because you wont know the flushness until you fit it on the car. flushness is both the contributing factors of wheel width and offset combined. while the style of the wheel is the aesthetic part (the face and lip of the wheel).

no need to post pics of bad looking wheels. i might not think they look bad but other people might do and itll just stir it up even more.

and i did not forget the "most important" part. i thought the wheels alone looked alright but it would look good and unique on the car. i mainly bought the wheels for fitment purposes but the style of the wheel grew on me.

and a LOT of people have been saying that if they were to see the wheel on the floor, they would not twice about it. but now that theyve seen it on the car and with the way ive executed it, they say it works really well.

ive posted my car on more non-mazda forums and more people ahve been complimenting me on uniqueness and how it looks good. and since they have other cars (not just mazdas) they have a non-biased opinion. lol ive heard a lot of " im not much of an ms3 guy but yours look great". ive also heard "yours is my favorite ms3 on the forums" and "best ms3 ive ever seen" and "my favortire ms3" and i could go on. not too many people dislike it. ive noticed that more mazda people dont like it.

bad looking wheels is 100% subjective.

^ that statement right there is what makes this argument so stupid. its all just opinion. you saying that there is a narrow selection of wheels that look good on this car is just your opinion. you saying that dish/lip looks bad on this car is stupid. but thats just my opinion. i think it looks great but it doesnt matter to you. its opinion! lol you get what im nudging at?

heres a pic of jogdoggz car (i hope he doesnt mind me using his pic) with a good lip on it and i think its looks fkn nice

http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j4...S3revscene.jpg

you know what? i actually want to see what you think looks good on this car. please post up some wheels that you think would suit this car.

I didn't see that the +39 was with spacers. But I stand by my original stance that stretched tires look dumb when done strictly for the stretched look.

For everyone else-

I understand the reasoning behind drifters doing it. But the Europeans who did it just so they can fit wider wheels (for looks) and still be street legal=RICE. Just because it's European doesn't make it "better".

And the Japanese have been doing this Extreme Japanese custom vans ::: Pink Tentacle for years as well. I won't be doing that shit any time soon either.