nismo wheels trade for varrestoen es1 ..good deal?
 

I have a pair of 2010 nismo wheels in perfect condition with only 14k miles on them and Im trying to find someone to trade with for his aftermarket wheels.I found this guy on the forum that would like to trade his varrestoen es1 wheels for my nismo wheels. Do you think this is a fair trade? Did my research on varrestoen and I heard the wheels are not that strong and break if you run over a pot hole. his wheels only have 200 miles on them there pretty much brand new. let me know what you think. I am looking for aftermarket wheels but I know oem is always better

Forget the Varrestoen's. My advice is to sell the Nismo wheels on craigslist/for sale thread (Im thinking you can get them for 1500$). Then you will be halfway to some used volk te37s!

so you're going to trade a pair (2pcs) nismos for 4 knock-offs? :confused:

folks will pay more than 1500 for the nismos set if they are mint. those are 900-950 a pop new.

this was my plan but I don't have time to not have wheels when I sell my nismo wheels. I don't have all the cash to buy other wheels right now also. so if i did sell my wheels i would use the nismo wheel money to buy new ones. but i cant do that because of school and work. so i was thinking straight up trade plus money if wheels are worth it.

I know that why I posted this to make sure Im not making a mistake hahaha.

No way OP. I'd stay away from knock off wheels.

You can get a brand new set of the gunmetal Nismo wheels for $1900.

But Nismo for Varrstoens. Say no to fake wheels!

OP keep your nismo wheels!

you can? where? :confused: never heard of such thing.

yah, dont do it. your nismo's are worth WAAAY more.

they are light weight too.

FB Nissan is your friend. $1989 shipped

:tup: cool. i shall get me some down the road then. :p

what do you guys think of te37 volk wheels teal color 19x9.5 front 19x10.5 rear ? some guy just offered me right now

I'll take any color TE37s for Nismos

haha alright im going to do it ...his wheels are coming off a g35 ..anything i should look for ?

Figure out the offsets, see if they're fake!


There are TONS of fake TE37s and some look pretty damn good... Find a wheel guru in your area. And/or PM Waizzzz

If you're not lowered those won't look right as G35C uses different offsets especially the front.

If not mistaken, nismo wheels are made by RAYS. Should be forged, around 18lbs.

TE37, same technology, material, new around $850 per wheel.

Yes and no, they weigh more than TE37s, I'd like to say 23lbs for the rear

Check the offsets on the TE37! Make sure they're around +22 in the front and either +22 or +12 in the rear!

Since they're teal, the original stickers might be gone from inside the barrel unless they were removed before refinishing and put back on afterwards.

Just do the usual checks to make sure they're not TE37 knockoffs.

The offsets are 22+ front and rear

DEpointfive0 is on it. Our forum vendors got us covered. I almost got those instead of Forgestars but didn't want to continue running spacers.

Just to let you know to verify these are real since the teal is not a color Rays offers so they were painted/powdercoated after and the Rays stickers won't be on the inner barrel.

To verify for a 19 fortunately all TE37s in 19s will have embossed words etc in between each spoke. JWL, Rays, Forged etc... If they are varstoens or Rotas they won't have these written on them (maybe jwl but not forged or Rays).

Also the rear +22 will be weak if you are lowered, go with a 20mm spacer to bring it to a +2 and it will look nice. The fronts will look great.

I've had 3 sets of TE37s so any questions you have I can certainly answer for you ;)

Can one acquire those stickers on the barrel? I have some CE28N TTA's or something with too many letters and the red stripe looks RETARDED on my blue car, so I'm going to powdercoat them... And the stickers are kinda gone anyways, lol

Unfortunately Rays is so strict with their stickers they only give out with new purchases. The rays/volk spoke stickers can usually be purchased on ebay (some are fake) but the inner barrel sticker with offset/width specs are stamped on at the factory and that's it.

Just to make a suggestion for you why not have someone or yourself get a vinyl strip in blue or whatever color and go over the red? There is a motorcycle shop online that sells the kits for 19 inch wheels for like 20 bucks.. Not sure if you know who Nitrouz is on here but he did it on his 350z and 370z and it looked sick! They have literally 100s of colors to choose from in every shade etc.

Welllllllll, a bit of curb rash, and I really just want to refinish the wheels. Loooonf story but I scuffed them up a bit while putting the lugs on too... I know... I know... I'm a horrible person...

Other question I had, any idea how much the value of the wheels drops without the stickers? Orrrrrr... If I went to engrave one of the spokes with "Rays" or whatever it is that comes on the new JDM only version that one of the sponsors is bringing to the US, would that lower the value?

Stop by your local RAYS dealer ship, show them the actual wheel.

They will be able to order them for you with sufficient proof.

I just got some CE28N sticker in stock in NY, I just need proof it's real CE28n in order to sell them to you.

Need to ship them to a customer for replacement.

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Mark.
RavSpec

Ravspec to the rescue, this is a cool thing both the fact you want valid proof and that you give the opportunity to get replacement stickers :)
I have seen rota wheels with Volk/rays stickers on them :shakes head:

Came in here with my torch to join the mob but seems like the situation was diffused :icon17:

Friends don't let friends run Varrstoens :roflpuke2:

haha thats why i had to ask the peeps who know better. i decided to save up for some works later on.

;-(

You didn't trade for TE37s?

The wheels had a lot of Scruffs on them so I didn't want to go through the hassle..I'm just going to save up and buy new wheels and keep nismos as spares

I'd have no problem running Varrstoens if I had a POS beater. Not referring to your car OP :tiphat:.