Re: Need tire/wheel advice, quick!

On Feb 15, 7:01 am, Carbon <nob...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 21:14:06 -0600, pws wrote:
> > I would check out the price to have the wheels repaired. If there is
> > some problem with repairing them or if you would rather get new wheels
> > anyway, one thing to consider is that there is another person out
there
> > who is in the same position as you.
>
> > The undamaged Racing Hart wheels you have should fetch a good amount
of
> > money from someone who has damaged one or two of their MSM wheels and
is
> > determined to stay with the stock set-up.
>
> > I have found that selling  the wheels individually gets a lot more
money
> > than selling them as a set.
>
> I'm pretty sure I'm going to get the 16" wheels and tires. Repairing the
> 17's would be cheaper but I don't want to be driving around worrying
that
> the next pothole is going to knock them out of round again. Also, I
don't
> have a lot of experience with alloy car rims, but on my bicycles anyway
> once you whack a wheel they just don't want to stay round any more.

I have a 2000 Miata MX5, and not sure what is on there, without going
out and looking, but me personally would not go with anything other
than what comes stock. All this fancy 17" or even larger crapola is
just asking for problems IMO. While my Wife and I were on the central
Calif. coast last fall, there was this couple in the room next to us,
with a brand new car (Can't recall the make or model), and he already
had a damaged bumper and messed up wheel or two, saying that he had
also hit some high bump and telling me how much that it was going to
cost to replace the wheel and tire. Absolutely insane. Now if you have
the money to just burn fine. But if one did, you probably would own a
fancier roadster than a Miata, maybe a BMW or ****che. My Wife says
that I go over board with my Miata, saying that I treat it like it is
a ****che or something. I told her that it is the closest that I am
ever going to come to one>>LOL LOL :-).