DC206R

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I don't know why prices of Webs, Blades, SI's, etc have been going up so damn high. ***** not worth that much. I don't understand how they can say trade straight across for Rota's and crap. Your **** isn't worth that much, unless you have some really good tires on them.

350+ for webs, 450 for SI's. *****s on crack
/rant.

.Manny.

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**** Yeah!!!!!

JaysHatcH

because finding a clean pair is harder to find now a days. maybe not so much on the ls webs cause soo many people bought LS tegs. But finding a clean pair of Si wheels or gsr blades is hard to do. Though I have seen some pretty jacked up sets of Si rims that the seller assumed since they were Si's he'd be able to get 400 for them. 400 for a minty set with atleast 50% tires or better I can understand. But I aint paying 400 for a set that every rim has road rash and tires are bald as ****. I agree with you there. LS webs I wouldn't buy a set of those for more than 250, but I also dislike those the most out of all OEM wheels

vtecdc4

THANK YOU, IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO MAKE A THREAD LIKE THIS BUNCH OF DUMBASSES

Garage 808 Hatch

go buy them from the dealer

Got traction

because people buy them for that price.

DC206R

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I understand if they are in good condition and have decent tires. No complaining there. But when you look at them with curbs and 2 bald tires, and they are still looking for 400 ish. Its a Joke. I've bought many sets of wheels and most were around the 300 ish range. I just don't know where the extra $100 increase is coming from.

OEM's > Rota in price @ this rate. Justsayin.

mechanix619

Supply and demand.

$450 for Si's is actually a decent price.

mechanix619

Totally agree.

When I was looking for Si's last year I meet a few sellers that claimed near mint condition but the rims were anything but mint. A few sellers even had the wrong size of tire and were using the wrong lug; yes, for some reason people show up with the rims on the car and expect the buyer to come back in a day or two when they have the "time" to swap rims.

NOFX

This.

OE wheels have been hovering around the same prices for years. This isn't anything new. Maybe the Rotas are just cheaper now.

DC206R

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Yeah I guess, I just remember when si's and blades were 300-350. Oh well, i just wanted to rant about it. I can appreciate nice OEM rims but its very annoying when some idiot thinks his messed up wheels are worth 400+

vtecdc4

i thought u were done with the scene anyways?

JaysHatcH

I know exactly what you mean. There was a guy selling a set of Si wheels that had been painted purple...very very poorly. 2 that he claimed to look "good" and didn't need repainting were chipped and faded, just not as noticeable in the pictures. The other 2 looked like they were painted on with water colors...completely thin, chipped, and just looked like a mess. He wanted $400 for them, and they had 2 badly cambered tires and the other 2 had about 50%. All this on top of the fact that they are fu*king purple! regardless if they were clean, I wouldn't pay 400 for purple Si wheels, especially with that bad of tires. it's cost about 80 bucks to have them sand blasted, than another 150 to have them professionally painted silver, or polished. I offered to trade him my discount tires wheels(knock offs of the TSW cyclone wheels) with 2 brand new tires, the other 2 with 50% and a tiny bit of camber straight across. Dude said Si's were worth way more than that, and I reminded him his looked completely jacked up and would need easily $200 at the least worth of work to bring them back to stock.

I guess the increase in price isn't just that people are willing to pay it, but that fanboy dumbasses think just because they have a set of Si wheels regardless of the condition they are worth top dollar.

iHEARTMYCiViC

I rather run with real OEM wheels than fake Knockoff Rotas anyways. LOL

DC206R

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I still drive a Honda, but I jsut don't feel the need to make my car nice anymore.

vtecdc4

ah i c,
but yea oem wheels are so fkn expensive, this guy wants 550 for his gsr blades XD

JaysHatcH

for blades? I could maybe...maybe understand a super clean set of Si's with 70+ treaded tires, but not blades. unless they had brand spankin new tires with papers and haven't touched pavement yet lol

vtecdc4

dude even if the tires were brand new, they are fkn oem wheels. i can get track Rs or slipstreams for that kinda money

ahhwhat?

LOL OEM Wheels..

JaysHatcH

but finding clean OEM wheels is a difficult task, and yes, supply and demand has really inflated the prices

EG1PJT

How can the demand of the wheels increase when people are saying that the Honda Scene is dying? Supply I can understand seeing how people cant really take great care of wheels all the time. It is a difficult task to find clean OEM wheels but if you look long enough you will find them, to bad when this happens your broke as ****. (or maybe thats just me?)

EE2bitsk

sold a super clean set of si's with 85 percent for like 375 a few months back, wish I still had them. seen a few people on cl claiming they have a perfect set or brand new set, one was 600 for blades no tires, and the other was a guy with brand new si wheels that were powdercoated gun metal with brand new tires, wanted a grand. it's like are funking kidding me?

KINGVEM^^ED6

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The old sayin goes "you gotta pay to play"

DC206R

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Yeah, I wouldn't mind paying to play. I've owned Advans, Volks, yadiya.. and I've paid 800+ for them. But when you're asking 500+ for OEM wheels.... you might as well save a fwe more hundred and get "real" wheels. jsutsayin

Guess I won't be buying OEM wheels for a while, just save and get much nicer wheels for just a little more.

KINGVEM^^ED6

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O e m wheels are real wheels