i know thier not fuchs, but..........., yea or nea? Options

[TROJANMAN]

for $100 each these american eagle wheels seem like a pretty good way to replace my stock steel wheels. having a hard time finding the real thing for a decent price.

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[John2kx]

wow john. all of that for $600 was a great deal. not much profit on your end. shipping w/ tires would be spendy tho.

kevin

My Fuch restoration adventure was far from profitable considering the time and money I invested trying to do them myself prior to turning over to a pro.

I read several articles about polishing and attempted the job myself. Bought a good polishing kit, electric tools that turned the right rpm and spent about 30 hours labor per wheel with less than satisfactory results. The local shop I dealt with had better tools and the experience needed to turn out a better product.

If I added up the cost of having tires dismounted, remounted, balancing, tools, polishing compounds, extra buffing wheels (not to mention huge mess created in my shop), plus what I mentioned in previous post, I would guess I had over $1000 to achieve the final results. This was a local sale so there were no shipping costs.

To answer the original question, I prefer original porsche wheels over any aftermarket wheel out there. I'm in the air about which Fuch look better......4 lug vs. 5 lug, but I needed the extra wheel width for my v8 car and reason for swap.

John