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18" wheels changed?!?


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Hi guys,

as posted in my other thread, I'm due to get my new GTI next week. Haven't seen it yet.

But I've just read this on another forum -

http://www.forum.golfgti.co.uk/index.php?topic=55169.0

Seems like VW may have cheapened the 18" monzas, and now they are just a bigger version of the standard 17" wheel! I hope this is not true - or least I hope its not like this on my car mad.gif

Please tell me this is not the case?!!! Anyone know otherwise?

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I know as they said the broucher is different but its a print thing been like that a while now. Not seen one with different wheels yet or local dealership still has the current ones in. If i get time tomorrow i will pop down to the VW compound and see what i can see of the ones coming in.

I could see VW changing for MY08 thats about June delivery but so late in MY07 seems odd.

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Dare i say i like the concepts painted 18s too.

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I think they look good also. Thing is, nobody dislikes the 17" design, they just dont fill the arches as well as the 18". I do think the 18" monza's are one of the nicest wheels available today, i cant think of one wheel i'd swap mine for.

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I don't think the wheels on the concept are painted versions of the 18" Monzas on production cars. The spokes appear to have some curvature and the centre is slightly concaved. I suspect these are cast and painted wheels (as per 17" Monzas) where as the production 18" Monzas have a perfectly flat profile (which appears to have been finished by a lathe).

Although the production 18"s are susceptible to the elements, aesthetics wise they are second to none.

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