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Has anyone seen these SC wheels on a GS?

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Old 02-02-05, 06:54 PM
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They are from an 04 SC. 18s?
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yup, 18s. not the best looking wheels imho, though already better than the pie plates from 02-04
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Originally Posted by rominl
yup, 18s. not the best looking wheels imho, though already better than the pie plates from 02-04

word...first time I saw the SC430, I was like "They put hubcaps on a $75k convertible lexus??"


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Originally Posted by NT2SHBBY
word...first time I saw the SC430, I was like "They put hubcaps on a $75k convertible lexus??"


yah, I guess they just caught my eye because any wheel looks better than these
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Its actually the same wheel with a different center bolted on instead of the pie plate.

There are a couple of members with SC430 wheels on their GS on the forum.
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The wheels of the Pebble Beach edition are pretty nice looking black w/chrome lip off of the 2005.
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Those wheels are pretty cool... and they can be had for nothing. On ebay, theres a few sellers that offer sets of 4 brand new for 600-800, which is why i cant possibly figure out why people drop 2-3K on a set of rims. Mine are '93 GS3 16" dark chrome alloy, I got all 4 brand new for 600.
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Originally Posted by DaveGS4
Its actually the same wheel with a different center bolted on instead of the pie plate.

There are a couple of members with SC430 wheels on their GS on the forum.
yup they are exactly the same wheel, they just put caps on them for no reason, i can't figure out it out why..
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Originally Posted by rominl
yup they are exactly the same wheel, they just put caps on them for no reason, i can't figure out it out why..
Do those caps come off? It looks like they might just bolt on there.
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those two wheels look the same, if you take that round circular cap off, are they identical?
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Originally Posted by e-man
Do those caps come off? It looks like they might just bolt on there.
yup you can take it off, but inside it's not any better at all
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Originally Posted by Lettuce
those two wheels look the same, if you take that round circular cap off, are they identical?
yup, if you take off the cap they are the exact same wheel
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i dunno, those star caps look better then the dinner plates, im starting to think bout them now for my gs...
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Originally Posted by Cannonbear
i dunno, those star caps look better then the dinner plates, im starting to think bout them now for my gs...
oh you bet, i think they are a lot better, but still the wheel in general is so-so

when we decided to get the sc430, my wife told me to start shopping for wheels asap, coz' she hates the pie plate. but when the car came in we saw that it has the new style wheel and my wife said we could hold off, coz' she can "live with it"

ah man..... not sure if that's good news or not
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SC wheels on the gs huh? all I can say is ouch! I am just not feeling the wheels at all (no offense to sc430 owners) the stock gs 17s look soo much better


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