Well ive started this thread to see if we can keep track of the owners of the 46 sets + 1 wheel, These wheels were not previously made and are stil not manufactured anymore by Dare Motorsport. Leccy_Blue was the orginal thread starter and the Member that made all the connections with Dare Motorsport to get these wheels in production. Also at an awesome price.
This idea of a thread/ Roll Call was discussed on another thread so i thought id go ahead and start this to not get the other thread off topic.
So any member that has these wheels please join in and share you pleasure of owning them, and if any original members still have them from 3 year or so ago then thats great!
Scotty,
well done for moving this across .........lets hope that the main man sees this and joins in ...if Mark (Leccy Blue ) is still out there lets here it for him,he was the one who did all of the work in getting this group buy organised.
I drove down to Southampton to collect mine and have them fitted,heres a couple of pics just before I sold it .I also had it lowered on Eibach springs so that the wheels realy filled the arches.Never had any problem with rubbing ,even with 4 in the car.
When I sold the care I put the 17" wheels back on so Ive still got the 4 wheels and tyres and the brand new,unused spare wheel I bought.
Still got mine
Got them in the group buy & had them on my EB S, now they're on my hyper blue S Did buy a second boxed set last year from a Mini2 member as spares
Still got mine
Got them in the group buy & had them on my EB S, now they're on my hyper blue S Did buy a second boxed set last year from a Mini2 member as spares
Just been out to look at mine & the original centre caps have gone a bit manky, may have to get in touch with Phil at Mini Pirate, maybe he can do similar to yours but colour code the 'S' to match my Leccy Blue?
I used to be a Dare X4 owner... but the ride quality and handling upset was too much for me on local roads and was not the direction I wanted to go in with the car.
I loved them to bits for the looks when i had em though... God I miss those looks
I was not running RF on my S spokes or other 17s before I fitted the Dares...thus I was able to see a huge difference (for the worse) in ride on the roads by me when I fitted my Dares. My dares used to really really crash into and out of potholes... handling was poor and they seemed to really cook my stock brakes (also they got so damaged in such a short time by rubbing on potholes etc...and even buckled on of the wheels inner lips quite significantly, despite never having hit or driven over a kurb etc ever!). I reverted to TD 1.2s with a same width tyre on a 40 profile and it was much better, still harsh but far better than my Dares on KW springs. The handling, acceleration and braking performance seemed to significantly increase too....but they did look the dogs danglies and I miss them
I've got a set too Bought direct from Dare Motorsport (I think they were the last ones they had). At MINI International at Misano in 2005, Mikey and I found some strange foreign bloke videoing them while the car was parked up. Its amazing how many folk go out of their way to comment on them.
Well guys, ive updated the first thread with ya names on there, been a bit busy recently so not had much time on MINI2 and having withdrawl symtoms i think lol
I dont think ill be messing with them and going black no more but silver again as they could do with a refurb soon!
Nice to hear from you Leccy, and a huge thanks for organising the GB otherwise we wouldnt have these awesome wheels.
Ive had that a few times aswel about the X5 rims, i guess they do look similar to some people!
Its interesting how few have responded to this thread,just goes to show how rare and exclusive these wheels are.........lets keep it that way ,assuming nobody else now has them ours must be worth a bloody fortune
Thats nice eh Rams, fellow Dare owner grasses you up then goes off line
Must admit I thought we'd get a better response, give it time I suppose. Agree with John about the the exclusivity though.
I sent an email to Leccy Blue earlier (if he's still using the address on the group buy thread), maybe he'll be able to put in a guest appearance.
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