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Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 9:48 am
by meetthespeakers
I am like a woman with her shoes, and I'm looking to pick up some new rims this spring for the astro. I was just curious what you guys think about these rims, American Racing Torqlite. I am kind of leaning hard to the Gray, polished lip. I am tired of the all polished look/cleaning, salt on the roads etc. So I was thinking about going 18x7 with 235/50-18's... Thoughts?

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Gray, with polished lip
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Gray, with polished lip
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All Polished with tire
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Basically what its going on, a photoshop of the van.

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:19 am
by GnarliSafari
i think they would look, perfect, i have never been a fan of the big gaudy chrome 20s and such, i my self have a set of simple chrome american racing deep dish 15s, but still run my stock alloys in the winter months with some nice snow tires, and i was planning to paint them in a similar paint scheme when i put the summer wheels back on. i also have the same rear valence that you have pictured there, mine is just in black primer at the moment but once i get further along in school i get to paint it as one of my projects. hopefully i will have her all shaved and painted by the summer.

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 10:29 am
by meetthespeakers
My only concern is the gray w/ polished lip how its gonna look on dark blue. They also have it in light silver as wheel with a polished lip.

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Silver with polished lip.

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 1:13 pm
by TheChopFather
I personally think they are a nice looking wheel (the gray ones) and will look sharp on your van. In my honest opinion the light silver ones look cheap to me...

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 2:06 pm
by ZachZ
I dig em. The gray rims are better in my opinion. I think They would look good on your van.

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:51 pm
by moboman
I hate to jack your thread, but this is kind of similar.
But, What are the stock measurements for the 15" astro van wheels?
I was looking into some new wheels, but I was thinking I'd like to just get 15" that bolt on.

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 6:46 pm
by meetthespeakers
The stock tire size is 215/75-15, not sure on the width, 6.5 maybe?

I will have two pairs of rims for sale shortly, American Racing 15" rims, and Boyd Coddingtons 17" rims. :partyman:

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 6:47 am
by st4s

Re: Thoughts on these rims?

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 4:28 pm
by Ericglo
I like the polished ones the best. I am usually not into wheels, but after seeing the pic of someone's van I am having second thought. I may need some Impala wheels. :tonqe: