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« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2004, 21:13:08 »
Bloomin eck, you can buy a whole landy for that.. :?

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« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2004, 22:58:20 »
They said they paid £7800 only 3 months ago  :shock:

Me I think they look tacky and cheap.
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« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2004, 23:08:52 »
'Spinners' as they are called are illegal in this country apparantly, as well as looking like something out of a nasty 'Gangsta-Rap' video
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« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2004, 23:38:41 »
yep, just about the ugliest thing I've seen in a long time  #-o

£7800 - some people really have too much money (or absolutely no sense) :x

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« Reply #5 on: November 20, 2004, 09:51:20 »
One of the stands at Billing has some like this. There was a father and son (I assume that, anyway) stood looking at them. I commented how tacky and cheap they looked. The response was not what I expected. The look on their faces was 'what? they are the dogs b*****ks'. I bet they had a Corsa parked in their drive next to the Saxo  :lol:
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« Reply #6 on: November 20, 2004, 10:29:10 »
Yuk - taky

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« Reply #7 on: November 20, 2004, 12:16:44 »
Are we surprised they are the only set in the UK?

£7,800?, that's a new Marin Mount Vision Pro, 42" plasma telly and hydraulic winch!  The £1,300 or so in change would buy a really tastefull set of alloys for any land rover product, even from a dealers!
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« Reply #8 on: November 22, 2004, 08:46:42 »
if they are illigal and unavailable...

why the smeg have I seen half a dozen pajero's in soton with them on ?

the thing that gets me is that they're remarkably heavy (the spinny bit) and it's a fairly impressively low friction bearing..

still, only usefull if you want to look like an idiot, or possibly chop carrots....
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« Reply #9 on: November 22, 2004, 09:16:57 »
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WE PAID OVER £7800 FOR THIS SET ONLY 3 MONTHS AGO !!

In that case, we are a pillock.

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WHEELS ARE LOCATED IN MANCHESTER.

Say no more.

I've often thought, if you wanted to take a perfectly good Range Rover and spend lots of money making it look crap, you could do worse than go to this lot:
http://www.projectkahn.com/
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« Reply #10 on: November 22, 2004, 14:54:29 »
:-& Disgusting wheels.
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« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2004, 17:17:02 »
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'Spinners' as they are called are illegal in this country apparantly, as well as looking like something out of a nasty 'Gangsta-Rap' video

Does anyone know which part of the road trafic act they fall foul of, is it the fact that they stick out further than the wheel arches because those shinny, takky, beasties look like they are inside the tyre extremities.
They still make an expensive car look cheap though.
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« Reply #12 on: November 22, 2004, 18:47:59 »
sooty, I think they fall foul of the "good taste" clause... :)

then again, so should chequerplate door bottoms on the disco IMHO
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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2004, 19:20:58 »
What even sadder is that around London, I've seen some very cheap an nasty cars wearing a wheel-cover version,  #-o
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« Reply #14 on: November 22, 2004, 21:28:48 »
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'Spinners' as they are called are illegal in this country apparantly, as well as looking like something out of a nasty 'Gangsta-Rap' video

Does anyone know which part of the road trafic act they fall foul of, is it the fact that they stick out further than the wheel arches


Not too sure, all I've read is that they're not legal via the Mot test regulations.
It was mentioned in 'Bike' magazine, so whether they've been judged on that factor (accident prevention?) I don't know.
Apparantly bikers (& cyclists- like me) watch for the wheels moving on cars in side-junctions & parking places, so perhaps they've caused crashes as the biker brakes to avoid a (supposedly) moving car & has been 'rear-ended'????


On good taste alone the ban should be enforced
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« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2004, 09:25:40 »
Yuk :!:  :!: , wouldn't even want them for free.  Must have loads of dosh though, look at the house, apartb from the motor.--Tony
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