A Q for the tirerack guys...

[Snarlynx]

Are you going to ever venture out into higher-end wheels? SSR's and BBS' are nice but I'd love to have your customer service, reputation and price relitive to local shops for work, volk, regamaster or best of all advans.

It seems as though you can only get those wheels through speed shops or smaller online companies. the former rips you off price wise and the latter feels unsafe. I already know a buddy that was never delivered some $2000 dollar wheels and I don't want that to happen to me too.

any news on this?

[Grant@tirerack]

We are very specific about the companies we work with on wheels. Most fitments are made to our specs and many wheel makers don't want to make changes for the U.S. market. A prime example is SSR. For the Asian market none of their wheels are clear coated. Those would last about 6 weeks here in the U.S. market. They were willing to work with us on developing a line of wheels that are clear coat protected and are made in many vehicle specific fitments that accept factory center caps (like BMW). Not all vendors are willing to make changes and have a take-it or leave-it mentality. Everything we sell has to meet O.E. or direct O.E. replacement standards. With the exception of SSR, all of the wheel makers we work with are O.E. suppliers to auto makers and the wheels are made to the same standards. We have to assure the wheels fit the first time when a customer gets them half way across the country. There are a lot of good quality wheels out there and we can't sell them all. Not all makers can keep up with the volume we move either.

[PalmerWMD]

Grant:Do you carry Cragars?Like these in 17x7.5?:http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....age=1

Or a pair of these MSW's in 17's:http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....age=1

I currently have 17's in front, and 18's in rear I own 2 good Cragars like the ones I linked so a pair of those would be good, or a pair of the second linked wheels in 17's so I can go 17's around and get rid of the 18's in the rear.

Fred...

[Grant@tirerack]

Nope, no Cragar or MSW wheels. If you go to our home page and select products on the tool bar, then select wheels, then click on browse brands all of them will pull up.

[PalmerWMD]

I like BBS's as well and I know you carry those, but I am trying to still make use of either pair of wheels to hagve to purchase only 2.

Fred...

[docsmile71]

Or a pair of these MSW's in 17's:http://www.nissaninfiniticlub....age=1Fred...

Ooooh, those MSW's are OLD SCHOOL from ooooooooooooold tire rack ads. They were the Type 55c's. I remember them. I guess that company went out of business cuz I don't see their wheels around anymore...but I do remember that TireRack used to be the distributor way back in the late 80's early 90's.