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draco 06-16-11 08:04 AM

Stock 330 - Best Wheel Design
 
I have been looking at getting some rims later down the track and as I have an RX330, my car came with the standard 17" rims. They are good looking wheels, but I want 18's (undecided if I would go to 19's especially given longevity of the tyre, road noise & cost differences in tyre sizes). The 18's on the 350's also look good. I have seen countless designs of wheels on the RX and some look great, others not so. The problem of course is that all of these wheels are on cars that have body kits on them and have been lowered. Now I fully understand that any car (including the RX) when lowered with the right size wheels will generally always look better than factory, however I would like for you guys & gals to give you opinion on what wheels work with a stock RX at stock height (some of those wheels with body kitted cars, wouldn't necessarily work on a stock car).

Post any pictures you would like, would be interesting to see what you have.

lexus114 06-16-11 08:12 AM

The thunder cloud rims look pretty nice.

Carver 06-16-11 08:16 AM

The 18 factory design wheel in chrome does it for me.

http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae86/VRF1/kw3.jpg

MrBruin09 06-16-11 08:17 AM

thunder cloud are the best stock rims.

lexus114 06-16-11 08:19 AM


Originally Posted by Carver (Post 6468480)
The 18 factory design wheel in chrome does it for me.

http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae86/VRF1/kw3.jpg


Aw,thats cause you da man Carver! :p :D

RX469 06-16-11 08:25 AM

OK, and what does these Thundercloud wheels look like? Gotta try and find some to see...

draco 06-16-11 08:30 AM

I believe these are the Thundercloud rims. It's a pity, as the TC was only a US edition and never made it down to Australia

http://members.amnet.net.au/~draco3/...cloud_rims.jpg

Carver 06-16-11 08:32 AM

https://i.ebayimg.com/00/$(KGrHqIOKi...-HksQ~~_12.JPG
Close up, kinda busy for me.

draco 06-16-11 08:36 AM

Yeah agree about the Thundercloud, they remind me of the SC430 rims without the centre cap.

I do like these rims, but have to do some chopping to see what it would look like on the RX stock. Great looking wheels, but would it work with the stock body.......... (I tend to lean more to a 5 spoke design most of the time with a each spoke being wide-ish).

http://members.amnet.net.au/~draco3/.../akuma-n06.jpg

mandyfig 06-16-11 09:25 AM

The 8 spoke Liquid Graphite looks good too.

Carver 06-16-11 09:30 AM

What do your 7 spoke graphites look like?

infinirx 06-16-11 11:18 AM


Originally Posted by Carver (Post 6468480)
The 18 factory design wheel in chrome does it for me.

http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/ae86/VRF1/kw3.jpg

Yeah I have these sitting in a closet :) They are actually quite nice :) I wold say my fave stock.

lexus114 06-17-11 06:16 AM


Originally Posted by infinirx;6468959[COLOR="Red"
]Yeah I have these sitting in a closet :)[/COLOR] They are actually quite nice :) I wold say my fave stock.


Siting in a closet? :eek2:

mandyfig 06-17-11 06:42 AM


Originally Posted by Carver (Post 6468670)
What do your 7 spoke graphites look like?

They became the norm (still an upgrade) when the 2008's were rolled out. The 5 spoke is an upgrade as well, lesser price.

The basic rims for the RX were 17" 6 spoke rims, which I hardly see here in ATL. Probably saw 1. I bought a friend of mine a set of these from fleabay and we put it on his Highlander.

mandyfig 06-17-11 06:43 AM

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This is the 7 spoke Graphite wheels.


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