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Specs: VMR V801 Titanium Black Shadow 18x9.5 PCD5x120 ET45 CB64.1 Conical Seat with Gorilla & McGard Black M14x1.5 Wheel Locks on Firestone Firehawk Indy 500 275/35R18
Comments: As with many of you, I was on the hunt for new wheels on my CTR since the price tag to replace a busted wheel or two if you were to ram a pothole on those wafer-thin stock Conti tires would be soul-crushing. Even regularly replacing the $$$$$ Conti tires every 10k miles (or less) was a cause for pause with me. Yeah yeah, there are cheaper options at 245/30R20, but let's be honest, there are not many tire options in that size. Anyway, I was checking out all the options from TireRack, Rays, etc., but none of it was doing it for me because they were either ugly, expensive, or an unfavorable combo of a few or all aspects such as diameter, wheel width, and/or offset. At one point or another during my search, I remembered VMR was pretty big into the Euro scene since my last ride was an Audi, so I decided to give them a look. They had just released their V801, which is part of their flow formed line, around May/June, and I had a "brand new, gotta have it" moment when I saw the pictures online, hahaha. I mean...I jumped on first wave for the CTR so why not follow that trend? So, I decided to hit up VMR directly, and suffice to sounding like one of those generic positive comments (hah!), they were a pleasure to deal with from Day 1. But trust, my rep was very accommodating and worked with me on all aspects of the wheel...probably have over a dozen e-mails going back-and-forth with the VMR rep. We hammered out aspects such as custom center bore so no need for hubcentric rings, and lug seats since they can bore out whatever you want but I decided to go with conical seats since there are a ton of lug nut options. Other than that, I was actually divided between their two new colors: Mercury Black Metallic and Titanium Black Shadow. There was a subtle difference between the two from their online pics but Titanium Black Shadow looked deeper and darker to me so I went with it. After I got the color out of the way, now it was time to decide on the offset. I knew I wanted 18x9.5 so I was torn on ET45 vs ET35. I played around with online offset calculators A LOT and read a ton on wheel commentary from CivicX and CTR Facebook groups. At the end, I decided to go with the less aggressive offset since I wanted to go pretty wide with my tires...maybe eventually trying 285s one of these days. Along with that, VMR will also order the tires you want then mount and balance them, so I just went through them instead of going through the whole TireRack + tire shop charade. Oh, and they also allow local pickup at their Anaheim office so I did that since I was in the process of moving back to CA and it would save a few dollars going that route. I picked them up a few days ago, and I must say, I'm impressed. At the risk of sounding cliche (LOL!), pictures do not do these wheels justice. I was taken aback how impressive these wheels looked for their price point. There's this complexity about them that, in my opinion, works well with the complicated looks of the CTR, haha. Just like the CTR, it's so polarizing to look at when they're mounted on the car. The color has this darkness and depth that works so well with the aggressive design without it being overly aggressive. Yeah it doesn't have the crazy concavity as some of the CTR wheel options out there, but the V801 concavity is good enough for me. Also, I'm happy with the way these 18s look on the CTR, and happy to report no rubbing issues in the rear. It's not flush but with the tires, it comes very close to being flush. Oh, I went with 275s since my last car, the Audi, was riding on 275/35R18 and just loved every minute of it. Anyway, this ended up being a long write up so thanks for reading if you made it this far!
TL;DR: Everything is awesome
Pictures:
Front:
Rear:
Comments: As with many of you, I was on the hunt for new wheels on my CTR since the price tag to replace a busted wheel or two if you were to ram a pothole on those wafer-thin stock Conti tires would be soul-crushing. Even regularly replacing the $$$$$ Conti tires every 10k miles (or less) was a cause for pause with me. Yeah yeah, there are cheaper options at 245/30R20, but let's be honest, there are not many tire options in that size. Anyway, I was checking out all the options from TireRack, Rays, etc., but none of it was doing it for me because they were either ugly, expensive, or an unfavorable combo of a few or all aspects such as diameter, wheel width, and/or offset. At one point or another during my search, I remembered VMR was pretty big into the Euro scene since my last ride was an Audi, so I decided to give them a look. They had just released their V801, which is part of their flow formed line, around May/June, and I had a "brand new, gotta have it" moment when I saw the pictures online, hahaha. I mean...I jumped on first wave for the CTR so why not follow that trend? So, I decided to hit up VMR directly, and suffice to sounding like one of those generic positive comments (hah!), they were a pleasure to deal with from Day 1. But trust, my rep was very accommodating and worked with me on all aspects of the wheel...probably have over a dozen e-mails going back-and-forth with the VMR rep. We hammered out aspects such as custom center bore so no need for hubcentric rings, and lug seats since they can bore out whatever you want but I decided to go with conical seats since there are a ton of lug nut options. Other than that, I was actually divided between their two new colors: Mercury Black Metallic and Titanium Black Shadow. There was a subtle difference between the two from their online pics but Titanium Black Shadow looked deeper and darker to me so I went with it. After I got the color out of the way, now it was time to decide on the offset. I knew I wanted 18x9.5 so I was torn on ET45 vs ET35. I played around with online offset calculators A LOT and read a ton on wheel commentary from CivicX and CTR Facebook groups. At the end, I decided to go with the less aggressive offset since I wanted to go pretty wide with my tires...maybe eventually trying 285s one of these days. Along with that, VMR will also order the tires you want then mount and balance them, so I just went through them instead of going through the whole TireRack + tire shop charade. Oh, and they also allow local pickup at their Anaheim office so I did that since I was in the process of moving back to CA and it would save a few dollars going that route. I picked them up a few days ago, and I must say, I'm impressed. At the risk of sounding cliche (LOL!), pictures do not do these wheels justice. I was taken aback how impressive these wheels looked for their price point. There's this complexity about them that, in my opinion, works well with the complicated looks of the CTR, haha. Just like the CTR, it's so polarizing to look at when they're mounted on the car. The color has this darkness and depth that works so well with the aggressive design without it being overly aggressive. Yeah it doesn't have the crazy concavity as some of the CTR wheel options out there, but the V801 concavity is good enough for me. Also, I'm happy with the way these 18s look on the CTR, and happy to report no rubbing issues in the rear. It's not flush but with the tires, it comes very close to being flush. Oh, I went with 275s since my last car, the Audi, was riding on 275/35R18 and just loved every minute of it. Anyway, this ended up being a long write up so thanks for reading if you made it this far!
TL;DR: Everything is awesome
Pictures:
Front:
Rear:
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