It's close but that is a MFSW to a MFSW swap (I think).

I don't have a MFSW so I'm going to have a little more involved.

Thanks for the link that definitely helps.

 

Make sure you sell it before the 2/24 certified warranty runs out VW's are in the rankings with Audi's poor reliability and exorbitant repair costs.

 

Actually the 2.5 Jetta/Rabbits get good ratings.

It's the 2.0T/DSG that kills VW in the Golf/Jetta/Passat categories.

Then there's the Touareg and that's a whole other kettle of fish.

 

So I put my 19x8.5 Hartmann RS4s on Thursday and by Saturday had hit something in the road and taken a chunk out of one of the wheels and then hit a pothole and bent another.

I had those wheels on my S4 for almost 9 months with no problems. *sigh*

One of the things I was wondering about though ... The OEM wheels are 16" and weigh about 42-43lbs with the tire. The VMR V710s I still have are 54lbs and the RS4s were 57lbs (I kid you not).

That (to me) seems like WAY too much weight to add to each corner to make it worth putting 19s on the car.

I'm wondering what I can find in a 18" that with a tire is going to be around 42lbs.

Anyone have any ideas? Am I going to have to go uber expensive ultralight weight wheels or can I expect to find reasonably priced wheels that will be in that weight range?

I'm kinda bummed that I basically torched two wheels this weekend and that my VMRs are just way too heavy to keep them.

Still hoping to get the car tinted this week.

 

What's the bolt pattern and stock offset?

 

Oh, and after listening to this ... AWE Catback on Jetta 2.5

It makes me want to upgrade

 

It's 5x112 and offset of 50. But I had ET35s on and they looked good.

The car could probably go ET38 in the front and ET35 in the back and be perfect.

 

Well, I decided to get some wheels off a CC ... Wheels/Tires/TPMS for $1200

Here is what they look like:



Going on the car this weekend.

 

Oh that should look sharp!

 

 

Good stuff Dave! Post pics of the wheels and the other goodies you bought.

 

I'm really interested in what you are going to do to this car. Not many people mod 'em so I am excited to see your progress. Nice car...

 

Those CC wheels are

 

Thanks guys ... I love this VW

I just got a GLI grille for it delivered by UPS. That will go on tonight.

It's raining here so this weekend after I get the wheels and grille on I'll take some photos.

Also got it tinted 40% all the way around (I didn't know people carried 40%) on Saturday.

It'll need to get lowered of course.

Plus I bought a short throw shifter for it that people seem to love.

Eventually the AWE exhaust and lowering and then I'm done for a little while (unless I can find the touchscreen radio headunit for cheap somewhere).

 

+1 Can't wait to see it come together. Those wheels are teh sex!!!

 

OMG it should be a cleaaaaaaaan looking wagon! man!

keep it up!!!!

 

and those are nice looking rims off CC!!

 

very nice car! i love that wagon

 

GLI grille is on. Was a bigger PITA ...

But now I have slots and honeycomb and it doesn't look as good as I was hoping it was ... Naturally they don't sell honeycomb with no foglight holes that I know of so I'm gonna have to roll like this until I decide to go through the pain of installing fogs and a euro headlight switch (and rewiring and and and and)

 

40% tint all around, GLI Grille, and 18s off a CC (not like I had thought but still like them a lot).

Love this car ... Did 4000 miles my first month due to extenuating circumstances ... Really need to cut back

 

Absolutely gorgeous. The grille is a homerun!

 

Lookin' awesome man!!!

Really liking those five spoke wheels.

needs to be lowered!!!!!!

 

=

 

 

Ahh that's better...

 

 

liking the wagon, alot. With a drop it's gonna be sick

 

Looks like Honda/Acura 4x4 wheel gap

 

at shoof's pic.

 

It's going to look freaking hawt once it's lowered. Love the grill, too.

 

Car looks great!

 

 

Looks good especially PS'ed

 

Nice grille And nice pic Shoofin

My Subie has the honeycomb too. And when do the CC wheels go on?

 

The wheels you see on the car are from the CC...He just misrepresented what they were going to look like in the initial "I got wheels off a CC, this is what they are going to look like"..

 

what made you go with CC wheels? Why not some BBS RS replicas maybe? I know they are played out in the VW world but they still look hot as hell on those euros

 

Damn that's hot! I really like the CC wheels on there.

Congrats on the new whip

 

Thanks guys for the compliments ... I misrepresented the CC wheels because I misunderstood the seller's post on Vortex. He meant they came off that car not that those were the wheels.

I think they work well and I like them a lot. I decided to go with them because I got 5 of them for $1200 with TPMS and felt that they were a great deal.

It definitely needs some sort of a drop. Just don't know what yet. Won't happen until the fall either way. Probably go coils but waiting to see.

Intake, exhaust, and C2 Motorsports tune whenever they get one out for the 2009+ 2.5L will round out the mods for the time being.

I still want to retrofit a bunch of stuff on the interior (including fogs that require a new headlight switch) but that's probably next year.

I love this car. I probably wash it twice a week and just love looking at it.

Not bad for a FWD car

 

You should consider getting black corners for those amber driving lights on the bumper, I bought the black ones and since I thought they were still not dark enough I painted them black with Duplicolor car paint. Only $20 and I think it enhances the look of the car.

 

Looks good now, should be even better with a drop