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Originally Posted by foshizzle11
Awesome, thanks guys. I'll start saving my pennies for October!
Besides looking nicer on the car, is there anything else to buying aluminum or steel rims for the winter tires?
Anything wrong with spray painting them every odd year or is that not a great plan? Ie could put the rims off balance or something?
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I decided that since looks are a big part of my car, I'd splurge and go for some sweet 'winter rims'. So I picked up some Braelin BR-O6's to go with the tires.
With my previous car, I didn't care overmuch, just had the winters and steelies. They got the job done.
IMO, there's no real noticable difference. My current set of winter tires look much better than my old ones did. Folks occasionally wonder how I can have such good traction with 'summer tires' ('cause they think anyone without steelies is only using summer or all-season/weathers, which makes for amusing conversations)
A buddy of mine spray painted and plasti-dipped his steelies to match his paint job. Looks decent, seems to wear well, and he hasn't noticed any difference from the 'unpainted' ones.
Basically, when it comes to winter tire setups...you do you, boo. If you are happy with steel rims, you do that. If you want to blow thousands on alloy, there are places that will happily help you with that.