used 350z rims for the 370z
 

All,

I'm looking for a cheaper way to get dedicated rims for my 2012 370z Winter tires. I read somewhere that some people were using older 350z rims to do this. Is this correct and is there anything I should know or need to consider if I go this route. Since I'm only going to use these for a few months a year, I don't really care if they are perfect, as long as they look "OK" and are not bent. I just want to be able to "hot swap" them when it snows without having to align and rebalance the car when I swap back and forth. Your thoughts?

I would just go through Tire Rack. Plenty of cheap wheel options there and you can get the tires mounted/balanced for free.

I couldn't find a combo set that was under like $3k...thats too deep for me for tires I'm only going to use for about 2 months a year. Unless you know something I don't.

they will work. will stick in in the back some, but you can use a 20-25mm spacer to fix that. The Rays will clear akebono's. Not sure about the touring wheels, or if the 17s will clear the base brakes either.

You can put together a winter setup for less than $1500 on TireRack. Click Winter, enter your car info, and build an 18" wheel package. :tup:

Here's AK370Z's setup for reference:

http://www.the370z.com/wheels-tires/...cs-ak370z.html

Hmmm. yeah I've got the Sport package with the 19's. I know its better to go down and narrow in size, but then I have to have the car aligned again each time I swap tires. I'd like to just hot-swap' em. Your thought?

craigslist bro...great idea

shouldn't be no more than $400!

I have this. See this thread

http://www.the370z.com/wheels-tires/...els-370-a.html

checked out your post. did you have to have an alignement each time you went from the smaller rim to back to your summer 19's? I had almost the same setup on my Pontiac Solstice. Drove like a champ in the snow with the winter tires. Well, that and learning to drive in the snow growing up in the mid-west probably didn't hurt either.

Asking a stupid question so here goes. :shakes head:
Did you keep the standard sizes for the tires minus one size? i.e.;
my Fronts are: 245/40-19 so that would be 225/50-18 or something like that?
Rear 275/34 -19 converts to ? -18 or ? Sorry:tiphat:

Also i do not get re-aligned when switching