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mGP · Aug 16th, 2006, 03:37 PM

I was looking at those replica GP alloys on eBay a couple of weeks back; but was concerned about the quality.
I wanted to preserve my original GP' Ones while maintaining the look (I was going to get the matt black ones, and replace the "workx" center cap with a 'mini' one), as I heard in another thread the GP' Alloys are quite "soft" and get chipped easilly.

I was also concerned about the weight as there is no point of buying a GP, a weight conscious car, and then sticking bricks on it at each corner.

I mailed the seller sixone-something or another; and asked him the about weight of each alloy, he got back to me,............ a week later.............probably after odering a pair of scales from RobertDyas; and the weight of each wheel "without tyres is 11.2kgs"
I don't know how that compares with standard ones, but i'm sure i read somwhere they were only 9kgs.

Aug 16th, 2006, 03:37 PM	#5
mGP ~ Join Date: Jul 2006 Local Time: 09:53 AM Posts: 957 Offline	I was looking at those replica GP alloys on eBay a couple of weeks back; but was concerned about the quality. I wanted to preserve my original GP' Ones while maintaining the look (I was going to get the matt black ones, and replace the "workx" center cap with a 'mini' one), as I heard in another thread the GP' Alloys are quite "soft" and get chipped easilly. I was also concerned about the weight as there is no point of buying a GP, a weight conscious car, and then sticking bricks on it at each corner. I mailed the seller sixone-something or another; and asked him the about weight of each alloy, he got back to me,............ a week later.............probably after odering a pair of scales from RobertDyas; and the weight of each wheel "without tyres is 11.2kgs" I don't know how that compares with standard ones, but i'm sure i read somwhere they were only 9kgs.