What year(s) Q45 had the 15x7 BBS mesh wheels with the nice 1" lip? I would love to replace my I30t 15x6.5 BBS wheels with those. The off set is much better and the lip is absent on the I30 version.
Oh, and if anyone has some for sale let me know.
Mike
Which Q wheels am I looking for?
I30tMikeD wrote:Do they have the gold spokes?
A little info onthe "gold" spokes:
About 2 weeks ago, I went to my grandparents' house (where I am storing them for now) and I washed them up.
In some light they look grey; in direct light they look bronze- not gold. They even look silver in the daytime when NOT in direct sunlight. It is the coolest effect. I am definately leaving mine as-is for now. Now I just need to get the tires...
I guess it was just the light in the pics that made them look gold. And my brother had a new camera and was fooling with the filters when he took the pics, which could have made mine look more gold than what they really are.
The more I look at it, the more I cannot tell if it is shadowing or what, but it looks like the lip in those pics is more like the I30t lip, except that the pookes are attached more rearward than are the one on the I30 rims. It could be my eyes, though.
It looks almost as if the rims on the Q45a in the pics have a stair-step effect, while mine are all lip-to-spokes.
Anyway, Pic # 3:
It looks almost as if the rims on the Q45a in the pics have a stair-step effect, while mine are all lip-to-spokes.
Anyway, Pic # 3:
maxnix wrote:Do they say BBS on the back? The OEM BBS model do have teh stair stepped rim lip. Doesn't mean yours are not genuine BBS, though.
Rex's rims are something different, though. BBS, but I bet not for the Q45. Wonder what the offset is?
Mine say it (BBS) either under the centercap or on the back. Mine are forged.
What I am looking for are the ones like Phenryiv1. 15x7 with a 36mm offset. It has to have the lip and be BBS, because if it doesn't then there is no point switching.
My I30t BBS mesh wheels say BBS under the center cap and on the inside of the rim. Cent er caps are totally different.
I am willing to pay good money for some 15x7 36mm offset with the lip, Q45 rims.
The pics posted by Rex look similar to the I30 ones, but they are definately not the I30 ones.
My I30t BBS mesh wheels say BBS under the center cap and on the inside of the rim. Cent er caps are totally different.
I am willing to pay good money for some 15x7 36mm offset with the lip, Q45 rims.
The pics posted by Rex look similar to the I30 ones, but they are definately not the I30 ones.
I30tMikeD wrote:What I am looking for are the ones like Phenryiv1. 15x7 with a 36mm offset. It has to have the lip and be BBS, because if it doesn't then there is no point switching.
My I30t BBS mesh wheels say BBS under the center cap and on the inside of the rim. Cent er caps are totally different.
I am willing to pay good money for some 15x7 36mm offset with the lip, Q45 rims.
The pics posted by Rex look similar to the I30 ones, but they are definately not the I30 ones.
I may have been wrong initially regarding the source vehicle for my rims- they may have been from a Q45a and not a Q45t.
I believe that my BBS are logoed under the cap and on the inside (back).
szhosain wrote:One other factoid: the 1993 Q45a has 15" BBS rims (I assume they are by BBS because they look like the ones here). With Infiniti center caps, not BBS. My boss has one of these 1993 Q45a cars ... Ivory Pearl Quartz, no less.
Z
Which ones do they look like? Mine definately have te BBS centercaps, but are also definately from a Q45. I just don't knwo which year/model...
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jlgallag
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BBS Wheels
The wheels pictured in some of the posts look exactly like the wheels I had on my 1991 Q45, except that my wheels had an ACT logo in the hub cover where the wheels in the posts have the BBS. The hub covers look exactly like those shown, including even the black background behind the ACT. They had the 1-inch lip. I don't know if my wheels were made by BBS, I think they were made by Ronal. They were on the car when I bought it when it was 2 years old and they might have been a dealer install for the original owner.
Re: BBS Wheels
jlgallag wrote:The wheels pictured in some of the posts look exactly like the wheels I had on my 1991 Q45, except that my wheels had an ACT logo in the hub cover where the wheels in the posts have the BBS. The hub covers look exactly like those shown, including even the black background behind the ACT. They had the 1-inch lip. I don't know if my wheels were made by BBS, I think they were made by Ronal. They were on the car when I bought it when it was 2 years old and they might have been a dealer install for the original owner.
ACT are the ones I ended up getting. Found them on ebay. 15x7.5 and a 1.5" lip.
Pics here http://www.nicoclub.com/forums...77582