What did I just buy, exactly? (Wheels)

Well, I just made a potentially stupid purchase decision on eBay.

Chalk it up to excitement, getting caught in the thrill of competition in bidding, and a moment of uncharacteristic naivety.

So I saw these online last night, and I bid on them...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270351557343

Did I do something stupid? hahahaha

 

haha
I dunno though, it seems like it might be all screwed up...
http://feedback.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFeedback2&userid=ejg1967&ftab=AllFeedback

I see 9 feedback, one negative as a buyer. All over 90 days old. And he has sold a jukebox, too...
Paypal is the plan. We'll see though.
And I was thinking I might have family who are down there next week pick it up for me, however they threw up their arms in a huff about them taking up all the space in their car, blah blah blah. Oops. Didn't think it'd be a big deal to them. Oh well.

 

That's good then if you paid that much. I can pay someone else to have them refinished and still have a free set of slicks. ;-)

BBS is also good.


I'm thinking of re-doing the centres in grabber orange on my red car, hahaha

 

Well to Canada (I live in Vancouver, B.C.) it's only $138 via fedex for the four seperate boxes.
The problem is brokerage fees but I can save that by picking them up at the airport warehouse for fedex myself.
I dunno, guess I just bought them quick and was having second thoughts, despite knowing it's a fantastic price. We've all done it before with some purchase.

Now I have the agonizing task of deciding whether to sell my 17" Borbet Typa A's (17x7.5") or refinish those as well and have two sets (I get bored easily)

If these are in fact BBS, they'd be a two piece wheel, correct? Or are they just made to look like one?

Oh and carreaper, I can't believe I'm saying this but... NICE Mondial! I don't even like Mondials and that one has me drooling!

 

http://www.ferrarichat.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=897817&stc=1&d=1236560999
This is a mondial here, no?

And thanks for the offer. I'll see what they're like when they're in hand and see how much they tickle my fancy.
I'm currently running a set of these on my car:

Team Dynamics Rim2000
They came with the car, but I don't really like them. 16x7.5" wide. The last owner's kid curbed the heck out of them however.
Then I bought a set of 17" Borbet Type A's that were supposed to be in exceptional condition, the product did not live up to the photos whatsoever - And they're sitting waiting for me to decide what to do. I was going to refinish them but I sort of lost my drive to, after being so disappointed and fighting the seller through paypal (I ended up getting some money back, but not as much as I would have liked)

This is what I was promised with the borbets:


This is what I got:


One of the boxes had a nasty orange mystery grease covering everything:


One of the four centrcaps were bent beyond repair...


Finish on one:


One of them was bent:


So they were (are) a mess.
I found another set of BMW fitment borbets in really nasty shape for $80, bought them for the centrecaps:

And then I hunted down more centrecaps on eBay, and then found some in my local 80's performance shop I've made friends with, and now I have lots of caps...

I have about 3-4 more caps than that now, three are like new. The BMW Borbets I turned around and sold for $250 even in appalling condition.

After hunting it all down and getting refinishing quotes of about $400-500, including straightening and all that - I just lost motivation. I dunno if I really want them anymore. Maybe I'll take them to the shop and throw them in the sandblaster and tackle em' and think about it... I'm probably into them total for $900 at the moment. Do I really want to refinish them and spend that much? I just don't know anymore.
I turned down an offer from a gentleman on here who wanted to buy two of them a few months ago. Maybe I should have sold him the set, at that time I still loved them and I turned him down immediately. I told him he could still get 16" versions however, Borbet still makes them, and suggested he might like to go with a staggered 17/16" combo.
And then the team dynamics on the car are all curbed and sad.

Bah.

I just want a nice set of wheels! Is that too much to ask?

 

ack, GT4 not a mondial.

I need to look closer, and brush up on my earlier models!

 

So does anyone here know whether these are a two or three piece wheel?
Or are they just made to look like a multi-piece?

 

This is bad news, I might end up with different coloured centers, gold bolts, and a massive lip in the rear... Uh oh.
My car craziness combined with my habit of getting bored quickly with wheels combined with my need to keep myself busy with small projects...

 

BTW I found a set of FIVE ROH ZS wheels in 17" with an 18mm offset, 5x108 - BRAND NEW and asking $540 for all five.
Are you interested? Is anyone else interested?

 

Care to elaborate?

And I think they're actually Epsilon though, looking at them.