Thanks Rex, we have enough wheels for now, but I'm sure those will be
snapped up quick at that price.
As I'm sure you're aware, we've had the car since October, and though things
are getting easier to find, it's due in part to what we've already done and
a few others have done. When we started looking for wheels in February,
there weren't enough cars on the road to have even been wrecked yet.
At this point, the S2000 hasn't been out long enough to easily have used
wheels for sale. As has been pointed out, it is possible to get aftermarket
wheels for the car, but they are typically 17s instead of the stock 16s. We
probably would have thought seriously about getting Fikses if they made them
in 16s, but they don't......
Ron
-----Original Message-----
From: Rex Tener <rex_tener@yahoo.com>
To: Ron Bauer <ronbauer@aa.net>; Kevin Stevens <kevin_stevens@hotmail.com>
Cc: Rex Tener <rex_tener@yahoo.com>; Team dot Net <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, July 10, 2000 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: Not all OEM wheels suck
>At 11:34 AM 7/10/2000 -0700, Ron Bauer wrote:
>>Kevin Stevens wrote:
>>
>> >c) For the S2000 and other first-year cars, worst case, you have to
>> > buy a new set of stock rims. But I'm not buying that there aren't
>> > ANY out there. No S2000's have been wrecked yet? Nobody makes
>> > an aftermarket wheel to run on the street? TireRack shows some.
>>
>>And we did buy a new set of stock rims at something like $300/wheel (which
>>was a discount because we know people.) If you care to do some research
and
>>find some inexpensive S2000 wheels, I'd welcome it. Even a wrecked car is
>>going to demand somewhere in the $250/wheel range.
>
>Hi Ron,
>
>Here is a set of S2000 wheels that a local autocrosser is selling:
>
> > From: "Kit Wetzler" <kitwetzler@mindspring.com>
> > To: <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> > Subject: stuff for sale
> > Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 21:14:02 -0700
>
> > $1000 : S2000 wheels with 40% remaining tread Kumhos 225/50r16 245/45r16
>
>Wheels are out there, but I am sure they go quickly. With both sets of my
>M3 stock wheels I bought/use for racing, I was the first person to
>respond. I still haven't decided if want to spend $2000 a set to have
>discounted Fikse's as race wheels for my car, or get a set of discounted
>new wheels $1600, or get a set of perfect used wheels $800.
>
>--
>Rex Tener
>rex_tener@yahoo.com
>1995 BMW M3, SCCA SFR Solo II A-Stock #139
>
>
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