Hello all. Picked up a new 2013 6MT this past weekend. I am not a fan of winter driving and as such I always install dedicated winter tires and wheels. Normally I get something that looks as close to factory as possible. Going through the choices I really didn't find anything that looked close so I choose the American Racing Villain wheels. Being winter wheels I was not too concerned over appearance.

After seeing them on the vehicle I was impressed, so much so I might put the all seasons on these wheels. I could be biased so I was looking for opinions from fellow TL owners. Thanks.



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Great choice with 6MT... Congrats

 

For my TL, I bought a set of 19" lightweight aftermarket wheels for my super sticky summer tires. Now, my car is riding on dedicated snow tires on the 19" heavy-ass OEM wheels.

I won't settle anything in between. So no all-season tire.

 

Edward what manufacture (wheels) did you get the summer set from?

 

These wheels look good....

 

livkot...These wheels look great! That being said, I am not convinced they look better than stock wheels but that is just me. But let me say that you have great wheels for playing around in the snow

 

TSW Nurburgring. Light weight and cheap price. Even cheaper than both my set of summer tires and my set of snow tires.

 

Ugh, I thought you might say those. I want a lightweight (if that even exists) 19-20" cast wheel 8.5-10" tops but it seems like forged is the only way to get those specs. I'm not crazy about mesh design on our cars (I think it's more fitting on Germans). I won't get forged wheels for this car since they're expensive and I've already bought 3 sets of wheels (2x stock, 1 AF) and will dump the car when 2014 TL debuts.

 

Just noticed TSW offers other RF wheel(s), I might consider them if I can retrofit a stock center cap (I hate their logo, it loos so cheap), and if so I'll consider them.

 

After having bought expensive forged wheels for my 2G TL before, I have decided that I'll rather spend my hard-earned money on tires, and not on wheels.

I just can't convince myself to buy expensive lightweight wheels, when there are other much cheaper lightweight wheel options around on the market.

However, I won't hesitate to spend $$$ on the best available tires, because no matter how good the suspension tuning and how advance the SH-AWD system it is on our cars, it all comes down to the four small patches of tire rubber that are hugging the roads.

I'm using Pilot Super Sport for the summer and Pilot Alpin PA4 for the winter.