Thread: 17" Performance Rims

Originally Posted by Ean Austral

Gday All,

Have the chance to pick-up a set of this brand alloy rims (Performance) and the load rating seems fine, but recall reading somewhere about people having problems with Aftermarket alloy rims cracking, and wondered if these were the brand that had the problems.

Also for those who have gone down the 17" rim path, what size tyre's do you need to run to get the speedo reading correct. Am using the standard 18" at the moment. 255/60/18 think it is.

Thanks in Advance.

Cheers Ean

I'm assuming Performance do the BB6 rim, there are a few guys on the forum with them, I think the early one had some issues, I've heard one issue recently, that was Jonesfam from Doomagee.

As for the speedo, 265/65/17 or 254/70/17 should get it close, at the moment I have 265/70/17s and mine it out by about 2kph too fast.

Baz.

Ean

The BB6 rims are the ones that crack.

I have a friend in the game who turned me off of them...

Better to grab some X5 BMW rims and some new wheel nuts...

You'll get out of it for $400.00 then

If you're keen, let me know...

Originally Posted by Redback

I have 265/70/17s and mine is out by about 2kph too fast.

You could use your Faultmate to fix that.

I run 245/70/17,speedo is identicle to 255/60/18,the OEM size.

That is reads around 4k's less than actual at 100k/hr.
So when the speedo says 100k's,you are actually doing around 96k's.

The BB6 rims have been changed, they now have a series two version which I have but just recently found cracks , the full set were replaced no questions. I will be watching these very closely.

Ean Austral try this tyre calculator
Tire size calculator

Thanks All,

Think I will just buy some decent A/T style tyres for my 18" rims and be done with it.

Thanks All

Cheers Ean

I have the bb6 rims and run 265/65*17 d694 bridgestones they are slightly larger but I reckon the speedo is still out by about the same 4-5 kph.

The other thing to consider is gearing although not much of a difference at this size going larger starts to reduce acceleration. Not to mention leaglity issues.

This size also fit in spare wheel location.

Cracks...bugger I will have to wash the car now to see if that is an issue.

MMMM this is what your looking for.