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Thanks for the Paint-O-Shop. I also searched for quite a while trying to find a fully painted version of this wheel, with no success.
However, it is interesting to note that Foose Wheels made/makes a wheel that Ford obviously was trying to copy:
It was originally designed in 2012, and launched in early 2013 - Just before Ford started putting the wheel you all love to hate on the Mustang.
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They look sooooo much better one solid color.
I'd go with black I think, but a bronze like I did on the FoST could look fucking hawt.
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just dip one of the wheels and see how it looks. if you don't like it, peel it.
i'm in the camp that thinks these are ruining your otherwise awesome car. sorry.
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krazykarguy wrote:
It turns out that there was just a bunch of sticky funk from the previous owner all over it.
GROSS OUT!!!
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That's the solution right there. Dip them. 
Hammy, how has your dip held up?
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The clear has definitely dulled but it still looks good, I'll take update pics when I put them on in a month or so.
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Pyromancy5 wrote:
Hey man, don't let him salt your game. There are worse wheels out there.
Those are def nicer than a Crosstek, but I actually prefer the Focus split 5 spoke black/ chrome to your style:
Regardless, yours are better than the saleen style 5 point wheels...
The Shelby wheels are pretty nice, but a full set would still be 1600-2000
SOMEONE out there will LOVE those ugly ass shoes you've got on there. keep 'em nice and sell them ASAP.
AMR sells Mustang wheels that are dirt cheap that look like the Shelby wheels. No idea about the quality, but they are cheap enough that you might be able to not GAF while you run them as a placeholder if you need to look for something better. I actually like the way they look, irrespective of price. Again, you can't get out of those stock wheels soon enough. No amount of plastidip can salvage what is an inherently terrible spoke design.
http://www.americanmuscle.com/silver-am … D=38675G15
Last edited by Bunnspeed (2017-02-15 09:56:42)
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I feel bad for Matt. He has agreed he isn't crazy about the wheels, but all this shade getting thrown has to be a downer.
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Yeah, it's kind of shitty to get this amount of flak after seeking and finding a car I really wanted for months, and getting shat on because people hate the wheels. For what it's worth, I've had more people tell me in person that they really like them than the number of people in here that have told me how awful they are.
My original wheel preference were these:
My car didn't come with them. I got what I got because the car attached to those wheels was one of the nicest examples of the car I was looking for. I don't like the wheels, but it's what it has. There is no possibility right now to replace them right now, but I will continue searching for the wheels above.
I haven't found a wheel that I like anywhere, including the AMRs above. But I'm an old fuddy duddy, not hip to the newest coolest trends...
Last edited by krazykarguy (2017-02-16 23:00:39)
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You realize there is a reason people online are more upfront about the wheels?
Anyways, everyone has said awesome car, if you don't want people's opinions don't share it online.
You guys are getting soft.
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hammyt wrote:
You realize there is a reason people online are more upfront about the wheels?
Anyways, everyone has said awesome car, if you don't want people's opinions don't share it online.
You guys are getting soft.
Hammy always so empathetic.
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I haven't yet learned that human quality.
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Soo, sorry about being a dick back there. I think we may have overstated our points and in doing so, went past "constructive criticism" and headed straight to Doucheyville. 
Anyhow, fact remains that you have an epic daily driver and should be commended for buying one of the last true pony cars. How are you liking it? Isn't it awesome being able to get into a badass muscle car and hear that V8 bark whenever you start up the car on what could have been a totally vanilla drive to work or the grocery store? I loved dailying a (much slower) Mustang GT, and found it to be remarkably doable and even reasonably practical as a daily driver most of the time. I hope you are enjoying the air of occasion that comes with any drive in that beast. I'm sure you are getting a ton of positive feedback from other motorists old and young, just like I did back in 2002-2004 when I rolled in my then-new New Edge GT. I had no idea just how iconic the Mustang is to the general public until I owned one myself. It's a pretty reinforcing experience, isn't it?
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All I wanted was for the wheel flak to go away, but it never did. I had planned on letting this thread simply die since it had gotten so negative about something that didn't matter to me.
Nick - I'm glad that you came forward to share your Mustang experience with me, because that exactly what it's like to drive this car. Everyone knows what it is. Everyone looks at it, and with the louder exhaust than stock, everyone notices it. Everyone tells me that the gray color is perfect and it makes me glad I didn't end up with a blue or red one. I've never been one to demand attention in traffic, this car does it for you.
It is perfectly happy to drive around in 6th gear at 40 mph, and can be perfectly quiet and sedate when you want it to be. When you punch the go-pedal, though it's a beast. In the 9-2x, it was always tugging on the reins, prodding you to drive faster, which required the wait for the boost to kick in. Not with this car - roll on the throttle in any gear and you're gone.
I've had waves and nods from dozens of people in traffic, and a throttle blip yesterday caught the attention of a Fox-body LX yesterday who promptly gave me a dual thumbs up.
I've ordered a sound tube delete kit (if only to clean up the engine bay), as well as LED bulbs for the license plate. I also rotated the tires - the back ones were getting a bit worn, the fronts were new. I'll just burn them off a little to even out the wear. 
Despite the internet veil which lets anyone shit on anything without regrets, the wheels are NOT as bad as pictures show them. They are slightly concave, and have a very nice complexity to the spokes. I KNOW that black painted wheels were overplayed by 2012, and OEMs should just cut it out - but the more I drive it, the more I just don't care what others think. Unsolicited personal opinions shared by others confirm what I already know - it's an awesome looking, and iconic car.
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Bunch of babies ITT. Nice car bro, enjoy it. 
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krazykarguy wrote:
All I wanted was for the wheel flak to go away, but it never did. I had planned on letting this thread simply die since it had gotten so negative about something that didn't matter to me.
Nick - I'm glad that you came forward to share your Mustang experience with me, because that exactly what it's like to drive this car. Everyone knows what it is. Everyone looks at it, and with the louder exhaust than stock, everyone notices it. Everyone tells me that the gray color is perfect and it makes me glad I didn't end up with a blue or red one. I've never been one to demand attention in traffic, this car does it for you.
It is perfectly happy to drive around in 6th gear at 40 mph, and can be perfectly quiet and sedate when you want it to be. When you punch the go-pedal, though it's a beast. In the 9-2x, it was always tugging on the reins, prodding you to drive faster, which required the wait for the boost to kick in. Not with this car - roll on the throttle in any gear and you're gone.
I've had waves and nods from dozens of people in traffic, and a throttle blip yesterday caught the attention of a Fox-body LX yesterday who promptly gave me a dual thumbs up.
I've ordered a sound tube delete kit (if only to clean up the engine bay), as well as LED bulbs for the license plate. I also rotated the tires - the back ones were getting a bit worn, the fronts were new. I'll just burn them off a little to even out the wear.
Despite the internet veil which lets anyone shit on anything without regrets, the wheels are NOT as bad as pictures show them. They are slightly concave, and have a very nice complexity to the spokes. I KNOW that black painted wheels were overplayed by 2012, and OEMs should just cut it out - but the more I drive it, the more I just don't care what others think. Unsolicited personal opinions shared by others confirm what I already know - it's an awesome looking, and iconic car.
The best part about the attention you get in a tastefully equipped, stockish Mustang is that nearly all the attention you get IRL is extremely positive attention. It's not polarizing in the way that an orange lowered Civic with a big wang is going to make you either love it or want to run it off the road. Nearly everyone loves a Mustang. Whether or not they want one themselves, they can appreciate what a cool car it is. Even the police seem to like a Mustang in a way that is very unexpected, as they tend to harass other performance cars much more than they do a nice American pony car. They will notice you but not in a bad way, for the most part. I got caught doing some really stupid shit in my Mustang and the cops were far more lenient than they were when I got their attention in other cars (other than my Cadillac, which everyone IRL seems to love almost as much as they loved my Mustang).
The only overt hate I ever got was from people in F-bodies, who seem to despise the Mustang in a way that you have to experience firsthand to believe. I never knew the animosity between GM and Ford fanboys was so real, but it is. Never made any sense to me, but anyway, it is what it is: yet another way for rednecks to have something to quarrel about. Also, other modern mustang guys don't seem to like seeing similar Mustangs on the road. Many of them will either glare at another modern mustang or ignore you altogether, seemingly wanting to be the biggest dick in the gym shower, or something like that. You'll see that many Mustang guys bought them because they want to be the baddest guy on the block, and you threaten their alpha male status. Pretty ridiculous, really. Oh, and while they may not hate you, every kid in a souped up Honda or WRX will want to see how they do against you. You'll have a lot of fun playing with yahoos but you'll have to be selective about it otherwise you'll get in a lot of trouble with that car, lol.
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Yes! The F-Body vs Mustang thing is so silly. Both cars had obvious strengths and weaknesses and both were pretty dope after 1987, the Mustang a few years sooner. The feud ends with the 2002 cancellation of the F-Body, and if anyone is being fatalist about the new generation cars, it's stupid all over again, because both are great lineups.
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Well, comparing 2014 to 2014:
Camaro SS: 6.2L OHV 16v V8, 426hp @5900/420tq @4600, 3908lb
4.5 0-60, 12.7@110mph
Mustang GT: 5.0L DOHC 32v V8, 420hp @6500/390tq @4250, 3618lb
4.3 0-60, 12.7@111mph
So my car has 6 less hp, and is down 30tq - but weighs almost 300lb less (demonstrated by the quicker 0-60). I also prefer having a more sophisticated motor, and actually being able to see out of the car.
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I always thought the Mustangs looked better than the Camaros, and that idea was reinforced more when they decided to bring back the Camaros. The newer Camaros look butt ugly and have no visibility. It's frickin 2017 and they still haven't addressed that issue 
If you ever decided to go a different route with the exhaust, check out the Roush exhausts. One of my favorite sounding exhausts from any car, hands down.
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I rented a '14 Camaro V6 last summer. The visibility and seating position was abysmal.
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BRING ON THE HATE
So I spotted another '13/'14 GT at the Charlotte Cars and Coffee. I thought at first he had the same [dreadful, awful, ridiculously bad] OEM wheels that I did. It turns out that only on the front ones were the same as mine.
He was rocking 1" spacers on the front and some wider OEM reps in the back (giving a staggered setup). Fronts were 8.5" wheels and the backs were 10" wide. Plus, the rear wheels had a nice convex dish to them. Tires were stock 245/45s in the front and 275/40s in the back. The car had a mean stance.
So for the last few days, I've been trying in vain to find a pair of these wheels in BLACK to match my front wheels:
http://www.oewheelsllc.com/19-Fits-Ford … Face-19x10
However, three different leads lead to the same answer: No longer produced, not in stock. 
At this point (opinions of the wheel's design aside), what would you think of this staggered wheel set in Gunmetal on my gray car? Too much gray? 
Last edited by krazykarguy (2017-06-09 10:39:01)
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I like them wheels, my vote is go for it.
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I don't know man, you have a thread of people saying nice car, awful wheels and you want to know what they'd think of you spending money on the same wheels on the rear, just wider and not OEM?
Like you said, "bring on the hate".
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Not seeking more opinions on the wheels. Jameson pointed out early on that the wheels on this car should take advantage of some concavity. The stock wheels have about 1" of it, but it's not incredibly noticeable. The 10" wide rear wheels have 2.5" of concavity, and it really makes these wheels 'work' on the car.
Plus, I have come to like them. Others have continually commented on how they like them as well, completely unsolicited.
I am seeking an opinion on the change from black recessed and a square setup to gray recessed areas and a staggered setup. I'd like to know what people think of the wheels as-is.
I'm trying to do an upgrade on the cheap, a full set of wheels and tires is not financially viable... I can do two 19"x 10" rear wheels shipped for >$250, but re-doing them to get rid of the gray and match the black will cost more than that.
Here are my current options:
1.) Buy rear wheels only and paint match: $250 wheels / $300 refinish / $250 for 275/40/19 tires - $800 - no 'set' to sell to recoup costs
2.) Buy full set of GRAY staggered set of wheels (as in the link): $500 wheels / $500 for 245/45/19 & 275/40/19 tires - $1000 - sell existing set of wheels
3.) Buy full set of Brembo track-pack wheels staggered set: $500 wheels / $500 for 245/45/19 & 275/40/19 tires - $1000 - sell existing set of wheels
4.) Any other wheelset plus tires: $1500+ - sell existing set of wheels
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The wheels look 20x better with concavity to them. Otherwise, whats the point of a RWD muscle car if it's going to have flat FWD'ish wheels 
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