The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

by **mcgon1979** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:38 am

I had one damaged rim. couldn't manage to source a replacement so bought these refurbished ones... 80euro a rim part exchange for my old rims...
delighted with them.

Facebook · by **gt94** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:11 pm

They look well nice

by **crayzidane** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 9:50 pm

WOOOW

looks brand new

Facebook · by **Sebastian** » Mon Apr 28, 2008 10:41 pm

they look FAB.

still why u didn't go for different ones?

by **mcgon1979** » Tue Apr 29, 2008 9:28 am

Sebastian wrote:they look FAB.

still why u didn't go for different ones?

well I was gonna go for 17s at one stage, but Im actually really really happy with the ride quality I have now on 16s. The TEIN springs make the ride stiff enough so I can only imagine on 17s it would be a bit too bone shaking. The other reason was I wanted to keep the car standard and think the original rims actually look very well on the FTO. (they've grown on me for sure). The last reason was price

I was very impressed with the finish on the rims though. nice gloss. very well done. the pxwheels.com crowd obviously know what they are about.

Here is a post I put on a different board...

I used this crowd recently. Found the advertisement on ebay while searching for an FTO wheel as I had a kerbed one... The price was that good (sterling exchange rate) that I ended up buying a whole set of refurbished original rims.

This crowd PXWHEELS.COM basically send out the refurbished rims to a designated wheel centre. You drive along and get them changed over and leave your old ones there. They get sent back to PXWHEELS.COM and they refurbish them and sell them on to the next guy. The sending and and return of the rims is all included in the price.

The designated Irish centre is FS Wheels in Newry. Very easy to find and only took me 45 mins to get there from north Dublin. It's in a big industrial park and easy to find. The dude who changed the wheels over specialises in selling alloys so no problems there. paid his 50 sterling (65euro) for the change over. Total cost including fitting etc was approx 80 per wheel. They look brand new and the finish on them is perfect...nice and glossy.

I'd defo recommend them if you need to change a rim or two and want to stick with the originals.

Website · by **Muad_dib77** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:42 am

They look amazing. Be sure to mind them :-)

by **Kace** » Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:00 pm

How did you get in touch with PX Wheels to organise the Newry trip. I emailed them and got no response.

Suppose I have to phone up the UK office ?

by **mark** » Sat May 03, 2008 11:47 am

lovely, any chance of doing those brake calipers?!

by **mcgon1979** » Tue May 06, 2008 7:45 am

mark wrote:lovely, any chance of doing those brake calipers?!

been thinking of that for along time... What colour though? red? white? something else?

by **mark** » Tue May 06, 2008 12:04 pm

Hard to say, red is cool as is blue, black with white lettering? get a poll started!

by **mcgon1979** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 4:56 pm

Kace wrote:How did you get in touch with PX Wheels to organise the Newry trip. I emailed them and got no response.

Suppose I have to phone up the UK office ?

sorry kace, I missed this months ago... just saw it now. Yeah I rang the UK office, arranged the deal with credit card. Then I just rang the Newry crowd and asked them if the wheels had arrived yet? When they had arrived I drove up and the guy in Newry switched them in 25mins and I paid him in Euro (70 for fitting) and drove home. job done.

The Irish Mitsubishi FTO Owners Club

refurbished.... standard FTO rims...

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