My thoughts exactly...
Shame the 18's aren't standard... but $1200 isn't _too_ bad... wouldn't mind the Dealer Fitted 18" Motorsport ones, but I'm guessing they'll cost a bit more!
As posted on another thread, my dealer advised that if your car is delivered with factory fitted 17" wheels (most of them seem to be coming in with this config), then it will cost around $800 a wheel to upgrade to 18".
Dealer will not trade the rims but this price assumes new tyres from 17s are traded for new tyres for the 18s.
You wind up with a set of 17" rims to sell on eBay and about $2,000 poorer than if you got the 18s as factory fitted.
Yeah - but is that to change to the 18" Detroit wheels?
... or the 18" 'Motorsport' wheels ?
People are trying to figure out how much the Motorsport ones will cost.... Cause if they're going to charge $800 per wheel for the Detroit and not include tyres, imagine what they could end up charging for the Motorsport wheels!
Last edited by Corey_R; 27-10-2009 at 05:21 PM.
That price includes tyres but assumes that the dealer can get trade in $ for the tyres on the 17" when buying the tyres for the 18". So you get back just the rims for your 17" wheelsCause if they're going to charge $800 per wheel for the Detroit and not include tyres, imagine what they could end up charging for the Motorsport wheels!
If the wheels in your picture are the same as the black spoked ones in the GTI brochure options pic, then that was what I was discussing with my dealer. However, the $3,200 was not a quote but just an indication of likely cost.
Cools, thanks!![]()
First "review":
http://www.drive.com.au/Editorial/Ar...6821&pg=1&vf=0
My dealer suggested the 18" motorsport rims would cost in the order of $4-5k as a dealer fitted option, as opposed to the $1200 for 18" Detroit (factory fitted).
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