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View Poll Results: Rims Like Em or Leave Em?
Love Em 5 15.63%
Like Em 12 37.50%
Not my cup of tea 14 43.75%
Hate Em 1 3.13%
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Old 09-25-2006, 12:31 PM   #1
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Here's another pic I forgot I had.
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Old 09-25-2006, 12:48 PM   #2
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Tires

General Exclaim UHP

Front
235 35 ZR19

Rear
275 30 ZR19

Not sure of the rim widths...If anyone knows please forward along...
Otherwise I will ask the previous owner the next time I see or speak to him.
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Old 09-25-2006, 12:54 PM   #3
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Forgot to add...

...the tire description particulars are followed by a 91W describing its load index and speed rating.

They were brand new along with the rims in a package just put on a few months before I pruchased the car.

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Old 09-25-2006, 12:55 PM   #4
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Box(s?)ter, the wheels look too wide for those tires.
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Old 09-25-2006, 12:58 PM   #5
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What makes you say that?

They are slightly rounded around the outside edge...but I have no real tire/wheel knowledge at all so please explain if you can.
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Old 09-25-2006, 01:04 PM   #6
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What makes you say that?

I'm not an expert either, but it looks like there's a lot of the rim is protruding outside at the area where it meets the rubber. As if you could fit much wider tires to the rims. Typically the rubber is protruding out a tiny bit further than the rim, or they're at least even. Or in other words, if you accidentally scratch a curb during parallel parking, in your case, the rim will be the first to hit the curb -- not the rubber.

Or maybe that's just how the rims are by design.
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Old 09-25-2006, 01:01 PM   #7
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I see those wheels on Ebay all the time. Search under Porsche Rims. The will come up in that finish and a darker finish (like gun metal).
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