Is it a sign of old age

[BolshieBastard]

when you don't want your next car to come standard with 22" wheels ?

Milan.

Nah, it's a sign that you dont want to end up paying stupid money to have extra bling on your car and dont want a rock hard ride on extra, extra low profile tyres (which also cost stupid amount).

[sadkingbilly]

[vetran]

Go big or go home!

[milanbenes]

and on top of that, 22's, you can't get 22's as run flats and on top of that, you don't have a spare wheel

so the next car, has to have a spare wheel as well, as not carrying a spare also does my head in

people can argue you don't need one, and you can rely on the mobile tyre service, but when you are driving to catch the overnight ferry from Genoa to Sardinia, and you have a puncture on the way, will the mobile tyre service get you going fast enough for you not to miss the ferry ?

Milan.

[milanbenes]

Buyers remorse?
You should've bought a Bentley - quiet, powerful, sedate and un-hurried. Instead you're trying in vain to keep a grip on your rapidly disappearing youth. You can finally afford a Porsche and you now realise it ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Oh well. You'll learn, or not.

Hello Supremo, ha ha not quite, could have bought a porsche 20 years ago, but had I done so, and slipped in to that lifestyle, the odds are I wouldn't be able to have one today.

the seven one eight is in the garage and on sensible 20's, it is a work of art and a thing of beauty, and I am looking forward to growing old with it.

The problem is the X5 on 22's, what utter pointlessness, I have to be so careful with it when I am the towns and with potholes.

Hence, possibly the X5 will be going in the coming 12 months, and this time I will configure a car with 20's.

I've always like the Continentals from the 90's, have you got one ?

Milan.

[Zigenare]

when you don't want your next car to come standard with 22" wheels ?

Milan.

Buyers remorse?
You should've bought a Bentley - quiet, powerful, sedate and un-hurried. Instead you're trying in vain to keep a grip on your rapidly disappearing youth. You can finally afford a Porsche and you now realise it ain't all it's cracked up to be.

Oh well. You'll learn, or not.

[NotAllThere]

when you don't want your next car to come standard with 22" wheels ?

Milan.

No. Even when I was young, wheel size was not a criterion for buying a car.

[milanbenes]

yep agreed

Milan.

[Paddy]

when you don't want your next car to come standard with 22" wheels ?

Milan.

Car tyres and wheels have become a fashion statement over practicalities. Low profiles tyres do not suit British roads but OK for Autobahns. Wide wheels are not suitable for narrow winding roads. Narrow tyres are better for mud-snow (exactly what SAAB did). Steel wheals are more robust than alloy wheels.

[milanbenes]

ha ha

I am not really in to looking after cars, I let the next owner be that person, the car should serve me and not the other way around, and it does my head in on the X5 that I've got be so careful with these damn 22" wheels ffs

Milan.

[xoggoth]

Nah. It's a sign of old age when you cant remember what a wheel is.

[milanbenes]

when you don't want your next car to come standard with 22" wheels ?

Milan.