3-piece OZ - what are these worth?

[csermonet47]

Nice score! Love these wheels.

Looks like they would come off a red E30 thats being parted out in the Denver area. Am I right?

[blefevre]

Yeah.

I am meeting with the guy today. He doesn't want to part it out yet but we will see what happens.

[blefevre]

A friend bought the entire parts car. I am picking up the wheels. Pretty excited!

[Mars_e30]

And there are so many suckerz on VW Vortex that you can make a bundle over there. Offer free hair gel and they will line up... ;-)

Haha!!!!!

[QUKBMER]

A friend bought the entire parts car. I am picking up the wheels. Pretty excited!

How much did you end up getting them for?

[blefevre]

How much did you end up getting them for?

$250. There were no caps, nearly no bends if any, one small curb rash. They have pretty worn potenzas on them that I will probably just do some burnouts in and then trash. I hopefully pick them up this weekend to start the cleaning/polishing. Not sure if I will completly refinish them with bigger lips or just use them as winter wheels instead of my D-forces. I've always loved these wheels so it is cool to pick them up for a decent price.

[Philo]

Please don't use these as winter wheels. They are very obscure. I only know of 4 sets in the US.

[blefevre]

I will keep that in mind. I knew they weren't common but I didn't think they were really rare.

[Philo]

Sets I know of are as follow:

1. My set, which now belongs to a VW guy.



2. Brown centered set on a MK1.



3. Black shitty bent to hell rattle can set

http://forums.vwvortex.com/showthread.php?4150553

4. The set you have.

[KEL]

#5- http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=173840

[Philo]

Those are 16's and 5x120, not what we are discussing.

I'm talking about 15" and 4x100. The wheels that were built for the E30.

[KEL]

Oops I didn't even notice that lol

[blefevre]

How I picked them up



After using wheel cleaner and powerwashing. Very light scrubbing with a microfiber.




It looks like the lips are clear coated that might still be holding up. I will tackle that next. I probably don't want to start with a polish as it might take the clear coat off. I might try claybar first to get the deposits off. Overall I am pleased with how they look when clean, it is a good starting point.

[KEL]

I'm jealous

[blefevre]

I thought I would update this just for fun! I originally thought they clear coated. Here is what I started with.




As you can see they are fully dull and have water spots and brake dust deposits. So I started with clay bar and cleaner wax to see if I could get the water spots out. Soon enough I found out the wheels were NOT clear coated at all so I went and got my aluminum polish.

This is my "test" to make sure they weren't clear coated. I only did a very light polish on the center spokes. Sure enough the spots started to come out.



So I spent about 30 more minutes giving the entire wheel a polish. It sucks trying to get around the bolts by hand. I am going to have to go out and buy a polisher of some sort. I will probably try the mothers powerball first just because it is cheap and used for polishing wheels :)

Final product for the day.




This was all done in my kitchen with poor lighting. They are shining really well even just by a short hand polish. I will get some daylight pictures once I buy an automated polisher of some sort.