Sheer joy!

Customer dropped off a genuine 60,000 mile J-Spec auto, totally un-messed with save a FMIC, still on 16 inch OE wheels this morning. Rare to get a car in on the sixteen inch rims these days, and what a joy it was to drive on typical British road surfaces. Went beautifully, lovely car in super condition!

Obviously not taken off the winter wheels yet, it'll soon be on 19's I bet

The difference it made changing the 19" wheels I bought the car with off to 17" OEM wheels was amazing.. lol

Get some pics up of it!!

I doubt it will be going on big wheels, the owner is a more mature gentleman and appreciates just how rim changes can alter ride and handling. The MKIV is a really comfortable car with great compliance and NVH resistance in stock form, pity that there will be a swathe of owners who have never experienced it.

Sorry Chris, I do appreciate completely where you are coming from but I put looking good over a bit of back ache occasionally...!!

H.

Yeah but has it got speed holes like mine?

when you think how far this car was ahead of everything else in design and engineering , shame the alloy fella had the day off lol, my car is pretty stock apart from the spoiler and TTEs

Only mods I have are the wheels, exhaust, suspension, front lip and a bov. No engine mods done, all left as Toyota had intended.

The rest is all stock, I even put an oem CD player back in

Hence why I put the stock 17's back on for Dragonball.

The stock wheels are magnesium so the wheel guys was glued to his seat and had not a day off for months, plus all the big power us guys run 17s for grip .

But they did

But they did put fuction over looks because it was ahead of its time

Sorry, but the stock wheels are definitely not magnesium, I know of no current road car with mag wheels, it is too unpredictable and corrodes like hell. Apart from being very expensive.

Really but there does seem to be alot of mention of magnesium oem wheels as stock,

Any rate when I weighed me stock 17s in for scrap they was shocked how little they had to pay out. I did see it In a thread some time ago someone said they was magnesium

If your right that means the alloy guy was having a bloody day off ! Son of a b....

Many aluminium alloys have some magnesium in the mix, but a proper old school race wheel (a "magnesium wheel") is mainly made of mag. They need lifing and regular x-raying, but are incredibly light! They corrode for fun and develop stress cracks. The FIA states all mag wheels have certificated crack testing done every X years.

Here's some possibly interesting reading:

http://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/general-archive/were-mag-wheels-ever-really-made-magnesium-88952/

I like the 16s on mine. A nice comfortable ride and I must be one of the few who prefer the look of fat tyres to the rubber bands people stretch around 19s.

I'm still rocking the 16's too, I don't think I'll ever be swapping out either.

I'll be going back to stock 17's again soon. The drive was dramatically different... for the better.

I had stock 16s on my old NA with staggered fitment and loved the way it drove. My TT has 18s and dare I mention the wife's NA has 19s and neither of them feel as planted or just plain right as my old NA.

I have staggered wheels on mine. 17 inch rears with a bigger tyre wall and 18 inch fronts. The rears are also a 315 in width.

It grips and feels more planted than my old Supra on 18 inch rears.

The worst thing about 16's is the limited rubber choice in 245/45/16 or 245/50/16 for the rear.

The worst thing about 16's is the limited rubber choice in 245/45/16 or 245/50/16 for the rear.

And small brakes

I never had any issues other than not being a driving god on track, 19's and set up by Centergravity seemed to work just fine for me

And small brakes

They are ok if they are working properly but a stuck slider or piston and I agree they quickly drop below decent. I've had both types on numerous occasions, currently have some uk fronts on the bench for a tidy up and j specs on the car, and I'm not in a great rush to get them back on, but saying that I'm mellowing out so don't test them as much. As you ask more and more of the brakes it comes down to pad material, eg round a track a CW race pad in jspecs will perform better than a stock pad in uk's. Uk's are better all things being equal but the jspecs can be functional for most people. It'll be a compromise like most things, the stock 17's though are very close to the 16's ride and handling wise so you can have it all really, for me the point to get over is that 19's or even some heavy low offset 18's can rob an owner of the stock fluid feel.

Which is why I run an N/A 4.083 Torsen with Borbet TTE 18" wheels which have correct offsets and with 285 40 rear & 245 40 front tyres gives the same height of side-wall as stock 17" tyres and near as dammit T.T. auto final ratio.

Resulting with the ratio I need, with space for bigger brakes and side-walls of sensible dimensions for ride, traction and handling.