Two weeks ago one of the Z4’s wheels developed a crack probably from a pothole and I had an option of either repairing it or getting a new wheel. Since the crack was pretty big repairing it wouldn’t have been a good idea and buying a new wheel would have cost me in excess of KD250. My friends suggested that I order a set of four new wheels directly from TireRack.com. Surprisingly it turned out Tire Rack ship wheels and tires to Kuwait and for a very reasonable price.
K.thekuwaiti gave me the email of a sales specialist he had dealt with before called Gavin and I started searching for my wheels on TireRack.com. They had a huge collection that fit my beemer but I was looking for 18×8’s for the front and 18×9’s for the rear and there were only two models that interested me and were under $400 a wheel. Since I had narrowed down my choices to two, I emailed Gavin asking for a quotation and a few questions. He was very helpful and patient answering all my questions, I even changed my mind twice and he didn’t seem to get annoyed or pissed. I finally got a quotation back and the shipping for four wheels to Kuwait via FedEx economy was just $270. That was around KD18 per wheel which was very reasonable since the total weight of four wheels was 50KG.
I paid via money transfer with NBK online and as soon as they received the amount they shipped me my wheels. It took around a week for the wheels to get to Kuwait and I just installed them today at the Pirelli dealer next to AceHardware. If you’re interested in ordering wheels from TireRack.com you can email Gavin at [email protected].
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are the wheels BBS? well whatever they are, they look very nice.
Nice ride doood! When do you take the wheels to the gold soukh and dip them in 24K gold? =) pimp it up? lol
They look nice!
actually does anyone know where i can sell my old wheels?
seeing that they are chipped/broken.. slim chance selling them to a person. so your option is in UM’ghara , its a scrap yard for cars. ask for location it is far from the city.
AYSHAY! I’ve always wanted to order some sexy lightweight wheels for my car, but I didn’t know it was possible to get them to ship to Kuwait. Thanks for the info! Goodbye bland OEM wheels, hello Enkei RPF1s!
I was looking for a long time for some thing like this, I will contact them, thank you.
you can also add all the types of tires you normally use for each of your cars to your wish-list, and they will email you whenever they have a discount on it which is usually on a regular basis.
Perfect! My husband and father decided i had too many bumbps in my cars wheels -whatever they are i dont see them- and they have to be replaced o problem is the Dealership gave me a high price for changing them! Let me see if i can surprise my husband with a new set of cheaper wheels!
They have great packages for brake pads and rotors upgrade kits too…
Good choice! But people learn from their mistakes,
I have never bought a car with the largest wheel available, always I go for the smaller wheel which doesn’t look good but you’ll get the following benefits:
Lighter, cheaper wheels and tires, softer, more comfortable, wheel is difficult to deform, tires are less likely to get damaged, tires lasts longer etc.
So if you damaged your 18s you should get 17s or even 16s for a peace of mind!
#5: Enkei RPF1s are great wheels! I used them on my S2000 and it was very light despite of 17*9 size and 255 tires!
Very nice wheels! what are they?
I recently bought Rays Volk GT-F’s 19×8.5/19×9.5 for my G.
Quick question though, when you ordered the wheels, where did they arrive and how much did customs charge you?
I paid $400 for shipping and even more for customs. ended up about $650 just for shipping plus $3K for the wheels 🙁
Mark how much did the whole thing cost u rims,tires,shipping & fitting??
Did the customs in Kuwait make you pay any extra money ?
i think so