[jetvermillion]

Once you take your car on track, you should start thinking about wheels as consumables. I know people who have bent a fancy forged wheel on their first track day with them.

Apex has a program where they’ll give you 50% off on a replacement wheel when you damage wheels you buy from them (and send the back damaged ones back to them). But I’ve decided just buy cheap wheels and replace them when needed. I actually have 3 sets of wheels now, all bought used for less than $100/wheel. So I guess my advice is: buy cheap, buy often (but buy so cheap it doesn’t matter).

Making me rethink my strategy...Apex forged genuinely feels like a luxury. I've been agonizing it over the last few days and I feel there are smarter ways to spend that kind of money. Any recs for places to shop for used wheels?

 

[jetvermillion]

Could you dig up that episode? No worries if that's a chore, but I'd be very interested in listening!

I'm guessing this one

 

[jetvermillion]

I was looking at Enkei TSVs, but the face profile is slightly too flat for my taste. From the side they do look great on our cars though.

I thought I had settled on Apex VS-5RS but I'm finding myself on the fence again about its looks (and Enkeis being so much cheaper is very tempting). Titan 7 TS5s look slightly better on our gen (and even better on gen 1) but with being only slightly cheaper than Apex, it feels smarter to go with Apex that has the replacement program.

I get it though I'm leaning towards gram light 57crs because there's no way I'm paying for forged rays 😭

I might be in the minority with this opinion but if I were driving a more expensive car like a bmw or porsche, i would get a set of forged BBS without a second thought. but spending >$3k on wheels on a $30k car feels a bit disproportionate

 

[jetvermillion]

The VS-5RS look better in person than they do in photos.

Good to hear. Part of it is my magnetite grey/pavement body color. anthracite is my color of choice but I'm not completely sold on that color combo. i would need to see examples in person. with other body colors, pretty much any color combo looks good (white on brushed clear, white on gold/bronze, neptune on clear or bronze, etc)

I have $3000 coilovers on my $3000 Honda Fit lol

I cant even hate on that haha. i think suspension benefits are more tangible and if you're going to touch suspension, spend the money to do it right

 

[jetvermillion]

Proportional or not, you've still spent less money if you spend $3k + $30k than $3k plus $70k or whatever you'd need to spend to get in an M2.

For sure, and I think that's more true if your goal is a fun track car while not spending a crap load of money. Tbh tracking wasn't on my mind when i got my brz, I just happened to get into it. Based on my spending habits, if I'm buying a $70k car, it would only be because I'm comfortable spending that kind of money, in which case another 3k for one set of wheels is a much smaller percentage of that spending compared to 3k on a 30k car