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Old Apr 13, 2011 | 04:03 PM
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well I’m in the process of buying wheels for my 04 ls but I’m trying to go with more of a exe look. The rims i wanted to get are discontinues and now im lost.
What I wanted to get were the EXE CROWN rims, I wanted a style like them so I looked into the works but there are too expensive for my budget.
So im open to wheel choices. The style I was looking at are the mesh,full face or 5 spoke.
I think the mesh look sporty and would not give the car the exe look im trying to achieve,all the full face rims I seen im not to fond about and I found some nice 5 spoke that look decent but not sure if it is EXE.
Bellow are pics are 3 amazing cars,but not sure which style to go .i have a flint mica color


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Old Apr 13, 2011 | 05:53 PM
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five star rims are also on the sporty side too. have you looked at mrr wheels? the hr3 look good for an affordable price.
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Old Apr 13, 2011 | 07:52 PM
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Yeah but they have no lip i like the lip.. But im looking at tgose aswell
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 08:55 AM
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The wheels on the first car get my vote. Actually his car is my desktop background.
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 10:28 AM
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keep in mine that all 3 of those cars are slammed and you will not achieve the same look unless you too have your car that low or lowered at all.

my fav is the vip modular vr01
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 01:24 PM
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Yeah i kno . Im going with some coilovers
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 02:24 PM
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Originally Posted by 06~ULTRA
five star rims are also on the sporty side too. have you looked at mrr wheels? the hr3 look good for an affordable price.
Whats the cheapest place to buy these MRR wheels with tires?
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 02:38 PM
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Originally Posted by sojah
keep in mine that all 3 of those cars are slammed and you will not achieve the same look unless you too have your car that low or lowered at all.

my fav is the vip modular vr01
the vip modular vr01 are nice! i bet they are expensive
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Old Apr 14, 2011 | 02:58 PM
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I like the Trafficstar/Maya DTX/DX2 wheels for full face. Also my current set of wheels the AME Shallen AX are full face.



Oh and the new set I just picked up are the ones in your 3rd pic.
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 11:10 AM
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I like the Trafficstar/Maya DTX/DX2 wheels for full face.

beautiful rims which they had a bigger lip onb them

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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 01:00 PM
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I'm selling my 21" Trafficstar DTX if anyone is interested.
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 02:24 PM
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Wheels -
Car pic 1 look very good -
Car pic 2 look not so good
Car pic 3 look like dog sheet
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 04:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Jabberwock
Wheels -
Car pic 1 look very good -
Car pic 2 look not so good
Car pic 3 look like dog sheet
Interesting. My opinion:

Pic 1: Don't like twisted mags of any kind
Pic 2: Least favorite of the 3
Pic 3: Kinda like them, but smaller size
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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 07:34 PM
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Originally Posted by caddyowner
Interesting. My opinion:

Pic 1: Don't like twisted mags of any kind
Pic 2: Least favorite of the 3
Pic 3: Kinda like them, but smaller size

Beauty is definitely in the eye of the beholder when it comes to wheels. But I guess that's why they make so many different kinds of wheels. My first love in wheels was a set of chrome super sport style Cragar mags...and by set I mean 2 of them on the back wheels (all I could afford) with some fairly wide Goodyear TA tires...about 40 years ago.

I still think Cragars look great.

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Old Apr 15, 2011 | 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Jabberwock
... I still thing Cragars look great.
I agree - but probably not on a LS430.
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