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Re: '09 Aero wheel question Posted by Snowmobile [Email]  (#686)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Snowmobile) on Mon, 3 Oct 2016 15:35:24
In Reply to: '09 Aero wheel question, serge  [Profile/Gallery]
, Sat, 1 Oct 2016 16:19:18
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Peter is right on the money... A spare is meant as a spare, so it really doesn't matter what the rim looks like as it will live in the trunk (and probably get rubbed etc from living there) for all but the 24 hrs or so you are driving around on it while the other gets repaired. Depending whether you get directional or not, the tread might even be pointing the wrong way for the tire that blows... (I know dws is not directional, even though it looks that way)... also the other tires will reduce in diameter as they are driven such that it will be a mismatch eventually anyway.
My advice... for $250 you could buy a whole set of nice 17" rims of whatever style you like the best used. You might even get lucky and find a set of 4 nice rims with good tires already mounted! Then use the best of whatever is on your current rims as the spare...
Of course if you want to stay with the official stock rim, that's perfectly reasonable, but you could probably find a decent rim that will work for way less $$.
Alternatively, if you really must find a matching 5th wheel, scan the classifieds here and locally. You might have to buy 4 rims though! See photo below from TSN classifieds, there is one that looks close (middle photo, 3rd from the back, bottom row), but maybe not identical?
I just bought a couple matching rims for my 16" winter rims used for dirt cheap and they are mint! It helps that they are a fairly common saab rim (the twin 5 spoke from the ng9-3)....
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