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Where can one purchase inverted lips for a BBS RS 17"? (IE .5" or 1")
Specifically this is what I have:
- BBS RS 262 17x8 (Fronts)
- BBS RS 263 17x9 (Rears)Comment
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Teaser just cus im excited
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lol, slow progress
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Model: BBS RM
Height/Width/Offset: 15x9 et1 and 15x9.5 et-6
Purchased from: craigslist (bone stock specs)
Plans: ordered a pair of 4.5" lips for the rear, repaint
Refurbishment/Polishing Methods: all new urrthang
Price: everything? too much
so i picked these up last fall for my miata. got them and immediately started rebuilding them. i ordered a set of 3" lips and 3.5" lips from tunershop. and i got all new chrome hardware from Persch & Partner. i painted them green and first had them with nexxen 195/45/15 tires. but then decided to swap them for 205/50/15 falken rt-615k
the problem i had was that whoever had the set before me refinished them in gold. and when they re-bolted it back up, they WAY overtorqued the bolts. out of the 120 bolts i had to undo, i think it was about 60 had stripped, and about 10 snapped. so i had to drill out and re-tap a bunch of the holes. sighhh...
future plans: i have ordered a pair of 4.5" lips from persch & partner. should be here beginning of september. so that will give me final specs of 15x9.5 et-6 front and 15x10.5 et-19 rear. then i think im going to order a set of the metal polished half-caps from black forest industries, as i hate the plastic centrecaps that the RM's come with.
then i have to decide what colour to paint them. im thinking crayon orange. it will work well with dark green on my touring, as well as the robins egg blue on my miata (gulf racing anyone?)
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Picking up some used wheels this week, trying to identify what specs/width they are to figure what tires i need. They are BBS RS189 rims.
This is whats stamped on them, cant seem to find anything else:
ET38
RS189
47.88
235774
Any idea what those #'s mean? I know ET is offset right? and RS189 is the model. They are 15"s so im mostly just trying to figure what width is, without measuring...yet. Any help is appreciated!
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good to know! yeah he had them refinished not too long ago, but just had them painted. VW centerbore..hmm...so will i need the hubcentrick rings or anything?Your signature picture has been removed since it contained the Photobucket "upgrade your account" image.Comment
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