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Keep my WORK EQUIPS or trade for MB BATTLES?

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Old 06-05-10, 06:42 PM
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Default Keep my WORK EQUIPS or trade for MB BATTLES?

My Work Equips are 17x8.5 +23, 17x9 +17.

I'm thinking of trading my Equips for some bronze MB Battles that are 18x9.5 +15 all around.

The only reason I'm even considering trading is because I want to run 18's to raise my car a bit, instead of the 17's that I'm running on now. I really don't like how low my car sits as is. I'm constantly having to avoid speed bumps and really steep driveways.

Here's how my Equip's look.










Here are how MB Battles look on our cars.




What do you guys think?

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Old 06-05-10, 06:56 PM
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sell your equips, run on your stocks for a bit and upgrade to some better fitting rims
Old 06-05-10, 06:58 PM
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for the two choices provided, i like the equips
Old 06-05-10, 07:26 PM
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I was about to box up my Battles and send them to you.......then I saw the Equips are 17's....Hard call man....I love the equips on our cars, but 18"+ wheels are necessary to fill our massive wheel well's....
Old 06-05-10, 07:38 PM
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I voted for the Equips...they look good
Old 06-05-10, 08:05 PM
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Originally Posted by Vincent123
sell your equips, run on your stocks for a bit and upgrade to some better fitting rims
I agree with this.

You could probably sell the equips pretty easily on a 240sx or rx7 forum. Hell, even the Honda guys are fitting 17x9's with low offsets on their cars now.
Old 06-05-10, 09:19 PM
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pm me a price on the equips if u decide to sell em
Old 06-05-10, 09:41 PM
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equips here.....
Old 06-05-10, 10:12 PM
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equips vs mb battles? equips for sure. keep em til you get enough to buy better wheels than the mb battles.
and i truly can't call your car "low". I'm on 17's and sit lower than that, and I have no problems driving the 300 miles i do a week around socal.
and plus, if you scrape, the problem isn't the car, it's the street/bump.
Old 06-05-10, 10:44 PM
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The car doesn't look very low.. I would just go for 18''s if you are staying stock-bodied, but not MB Battles. Try and find 18'' Equips if anything
Old 06-05-10, 11:07 PM
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Ill trade you..Ill give you $5 and you give me $5k....clear enough..Works FTW!
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I think 17's look kind of small. Save up for some nicer rims
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theyre both nice options man. if you keep the equips, just go lower and itll look ten times better. clean car.
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wow those equips are small!
Old 06-06-10, 12:58 AM
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Originally Posted by turbodremz
Ill trade you..Ill give you $5 and you give me $5k....clear enough..Works FTW!
True enough....But's there's Work Equip's.....


















........and there's Work Equip's:


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