The BBS RC 090/BMW Style 5 wheels thread

[AlpineE39]

My current wheels

are these 17" Style 5s upsized to 18"? or are my eyes screwin with me?

[2.oTAWD]

Reps
18x9

[AlpineE39]

Don't mean to be a douche, but I am curious....to the people who have converted their 2-piece Style 5s over to 3-piece by cutting or machining the barrel, wouldn't it have been much easier to just remove the face off the barrel and install it on a set of 3-piece barrels and install new lips on them? Or is that not possible with Style 5s? Reason I ask is cuz I'm considering buying a set for my E39, but the converting them to 18" 3-piece wheels by buying new barrels and lips.

Or is that just not possible to do?

[Zic]

You can do it both ways. Also buying new inner barrels will cost more in the long run.

[AlpineE39]

You can do it both ways. Also buying new inner barrels will cost more in the long run.

Well, I figured that. But since I would like to upsize them to 18", I guess I really have no choice but to do that. Does anyone know a place to get barrels and lips at reasonable prices? I m considering doing this to either Style 5s or Style 19s....

[IronmanE30]

New shoes for the 540/6. 235 on the front 8" and 255 on the rear 9" style 5's.





Cheers,

Jim

[AlpineE39]

looks sweet Iron Man....

[Ian_]

sup sup, so FINALLY got them DONE!! cleaned them up today and took some nice pics! kinda gloomy out, so u can just imagine how shiny the gold would be under some sun!! so finally got some real OEM BBS caps, the polished hex cap CNC cut to fit the OEM BBS center caps, the OEM style 5 caps, gold marble dice air valve caps, and gold air stem sleaves. new rubber & the spare is done as well! what you guys think?!?!?

Sweet Jesus, those look nice! Have any pics of them on your car?

[BrysonB]

Sweet Jesus, those look nice! Have any pics of them on your car?

Agreed^
And how was the gold lips achieved? I once had wanted to do this

[BrysonB]

17x8's
Polished lip
Duplicolor "frost white" painted faces
Bolts painted gold with rust oleum gold paint
E34 mesh/weave caps

[ESR-Murdock]

Hello,

I am from Germany. Here are some pics of my daily car.

BBS RC front 8x18 with 205/40 and rear 9x18 with 245/35. The wheels center is fitted from frontside.

[dedo]

anyone running them on e46 touring?

[Axel's E36]

hello,
my name is axel, I come from Germany.

This is my E36 Compact with BBS RC 090 8x17 ET20.

[Perry Wilson]

Just in case anyone ever wondered what a reverse mount and polished lip would look like

[Marqus]