It's tough sometimes with cars. Like all relationships, sometimes you're just more in love than other times. Some of us may entertain ideas of selling our current chariots and upgrading / downgrading for more power / prestige / room / or whatever, while others may look for something more simple, stripped down and basic. It happens all the time. 'The grass is always greener on the other side' and all that crap.
Well Jason, who pretty much has honorary status as an official part of the team now, has these feelings more often than not. In fact, I can honestly say not a day goes by that he doesn't propose dropping everything and buying some random car that could be 'so cool' with x, y or z done to it. Bad bad ideas as he says. So bad they are good. I beg to differ, but then I tend to be more conservative on that front. Usually it involves something that will be impossible to get parts for, or close to impossible to keep on the road (see also: Crazy like the Fox) and so they don't always come to fruition, luckily for him.
Anyways, this 2000 Passat B5 Wagon is Jason's daily driver. Sure he has an '88 Scirocco 16v that he could put money into and drive, which would be fun and fast, but he's a big wimp when it comes to really driving cars (haha) and so he needs something 'cushy' to drive everyday. This Passat was on the chopping block until recently, but after the chips were cashed in on the Fox project, he decided to hang onto it. Unfortunately these fantastic 19x9" Touareg wheels have already been sold to Arno over at Baak 2 Basics, so it was time for some new rollers...the bent and abused steelies simply not being sufficiently pimp for the wagon. The choice: fan-freaking-tastic Miro 111 wheels in a positively massive 18x9.5", all the way around.
Boo ya!
Tires will be 225/40 R18, and seeing as the final offset on the old Touareg wheels was the same as these (et40) the extra .5" shouldn't pose too much of a problem for the old girl. As you can see Jason's taking no prisoners with the ride height (Vogtland coilovers) so it should be sitting very pretty by this time next week. I for one am excited to see it.
I mean just look at that! No lip, spokes go right to the edge, and well, I couldn't ask for much more, and it's not even my car.
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Gonna look hot. Watch those curbs. They have curb rash written all over them with the way those spokes look.
ReplyDeleteYeah, there is no doubt about that one. Nothing like parallel parking in Baltimore to curb those rims in a heartbeat.
ReplyDeletewha? What about some Cayenne chunkers to replace those Toureg wheels...These "Miro" units look a bit gauty to us down here, the "bubble spoke" was hoping to die with the TSW Venom of yester-year...
ReplyDeleteAt least paint/powder them black!
They may get powdercoated black at some point, but I'm keeping the silver/machined finish for now. I like the concave spokes. The Touareg wheels were rediculously heavy, as I'm sure the Cayenne wheels are, and the Cayenne wheels just aren't attractive in any sort of way. I'm just tired of seeing everything on a VW need a 4" lip to be cool anymore. Wide wheels are cool. I don't need a lip to show it off. Plus for the cost, I can't go wrong. It's my daily beater, not a show car.
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