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Staggered 16's on mine, need the car lowered though as I'm on stock. Mine are missing the centre caps but I've grown to like them without and my envy dripped away with it. I gave up trying to source replacements, had them refurbed in blackened chrome. That gold is way too bright/orangy and the red text clashes. Try bronze or a darker shade? 
I think the Advans look good on MR2 with bodykit mods, they don't really suit a stock bodied car IMO.Nic wrote:I prefer the Work wheels.
(shameless self posting incoming). Granted mine are not SA3R's, but their better looking ( IMO 
) older brother, the SA3:
... great thread keep the SA3R's coming 
nathan.z wrote:Since we're all whoring Advans.
I'm personally not a fan of them in Gold on a black body.
.. great looking car nathan 
2mad wrote:Own SA3R's but gazza's originals are much easer to refurb
.. Never again.Gazza_DJ wrote:2mad wrote:Own SA3R's but gazza's originals are much easer to refurb
Depends on how much you like undoing shitloads of little spline head bolts I guess.
.... well worth the effort you well and trully in my top 5 for exterior looks mr2's gaz ... great looking car Still need to find a decent way of sealing them that isn't lacquer.Gazza_DJ wrote:
Disagree
Gazza_DJ wrote:I've only done it on one wheel
All 4 need doing properly really.
(or off to cardhore lol) .. pristine car , perfect ride hight .. and great wheels ... lovely car gaz ... like i said one of my favs - keep them coming. 
JAAASH, the candy red and your car looks amazing! (Hmmm red and black, I wonder lol!) and the photos of rest of the Advans, love 'em. I was already considering fitting TOM's side skirts/bumper and and Aerowave lip, at some point. Realise it's extremely unlikely I'm going to come across originals. Does anyone have any experience with the MR2-Ben copies, or can recommend alternative copies/suppliers??- Gazza_DJ, your wheel and colour combination, is perfect. What a beautiful looking car! I'll post some photos when I have them back. However, the company said they couldn't do anything with the centre nuts. Which I was gutted at the prospect of having fresh alloys with the centre nuts letting them down.£50-55 x 4. They're made from billet aluminium. You can get them in plain alloy, or anodised black. They are identical copies and superb quality. So much so, I'm probably going to buy another spare set. (ooo err misus!). There's an original one on ebay and the seller wants £150 for it. Crazy!! I could buy another three spare sets of nuts for that! Watfields came back to say they could manufacture the spanner given enough interest and that they were suprised how many of the nuts they've already sold. Therefore, they will consider it and come back to me........so watch this space!Mr Yoshi wrote:My Advans are being refurbed and are nearly ready to be collected.
I then came across Watfields Limited who are precision engineering company based in Barnsley, who are currently selling replica Advan SA3r centre nuts on ebay for
Thought some of you guys might be interested in refreshing your old nuts too
I've also contacted Watfields to see if they could make the plastic spanner for a reasonable price.
Some potentially good news for Advan SA3r owners!
/surround? 
(of centre nuts) for a customer and thought we'd do a few extra sets to see what the reaction was. We've nearly sold out so we will be doing more". So I guess they're capable of copying the plates, nuts, coins and plastic spanner. Especially, if someone local took all the items in to be measured up. But I suppose it will come down to demand? If enough people were to show interest, I'm sure they would produce them? Or you may pay a premium cost for them to reproduce one full set. Saying that, they're considering the tool, on just my request.....and the reaction just to their centre nuts has been positive, as they've nearly sold out. I was shocked as the nuts really are an exact copy, in every way."We made the centre nuts and caps for a customer which is how we got started with them. The outer rims are not really suited to our machines so we will have to stick with the nuts and possibly the caps and spanner for now." Sorry not better news!nathan.z wrote:Mr Yoshi wrote:My Advans are being refurbed and are nearly ready to be collected.
I then came across Watfields Limited who are precision engineering company based in Barnsley, who are currently selling replica Advan SA3r centre nuts on ebay for
Thought some of you guys might be interested in refreshing your old nuts too
I've also contacted Watfields to see if they could make the plastic spanner for a reasonable price.
Some potentially good news for Advan SA3r owners!
It's great they're selling the centre nut, but what about the wheel nut cover
... advan are missing a trick not having this available 
Mr Yoshi wrote:Watfields:
Just checked with them for you nathan.z.
..I noticed when shopping around on the 2nd hand market that about 50% of the sets were missing those pieces. Having all the parts meant an extra few hundred for the resale value. I wonder how they look with just the nut without the surround piece. Just waiting for the decals to be fitted and these have also arrived.......have finished cleaning/polishing up the Fujitsubo exhaust, so hope to have the exhaust, Berk downpipe, coilovers and Advans all on next week. I cannot wait!!!!! 
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