I went to my friend's house last weekend and tried out his Centerline Star billet 17s on my car. They used to be my old rims back when I had my old 5.0 Mustang a several years ago. But since he got them from me then he was cool about letting me try them out to see what they look like on my 'tour.
Anyways, ignore the excessive offset of them. They DO stick out a lot because they are for RWD car apps but I just wanted to put that aside, in order to get an idea of what this style would look like on my car. What do you guys think? They have 225/40/17 tires on them now. I kinda liked the look of them but wonder if they will still look cool with the correct offset for the Contour (less deep dish look from the side view)?
This all came about, because my tires were almost bald and so I was considering rims the other day since I needed tires anyway, but couldn't figure out if I wanted to take the plunge into a set of $1000 rims, so I tried his on for looks just to get some idea if 17s really would pick up the looks much better than the 16s do now. But after tossing this idea around for a few days I realized I needed rubber bad, so I went on ahead and renewed the tires on my car (with the thinking that if needed, I could always sell the 16" rim/tire combo together to recoupe some of the expense of the upgrade to 17s).
First set of pics are of my car trying his 17s.
Second set of pics is with the new set (same size as I always had) of 205/50/16 tires on my current Enkei 16" wheels.
Current look:
What I REALLY want to do is to find some of the EXACT Enkei rims like I got now but in a 17" diameter and use a lower profile tire, but this type I have now is a discontinued design and so far no tire store can help me on this. So I've been trying to find some other type of black centered rim that has the polished aluminum look around the outer ring area of the rim, but this is too hard to find as well. The last option I thought of is to get some of those Centerline Stars and adonize in black just the flat part in the center of them, and then run them without the centercaps and use nice smaller chrome centercaps to go in just the very center hole along with nice chrome lugnuts (since you'd be able to see them). Then the rims would still have the shiney look to them around the outer ring of them, but black in the middle. Any opinions? This is why I just said screw it, and bought new rubber without rims for now, because I couldn't make up my mind. I just can't get myself to go for all the trendy mainstream things that are so popular now (mainly spokes). For this reason, I can't find any styles that I truly like in all the rim catalogs that I've seen in tirestores or online.
