Spent a few hours at Discount Tire yesterday, and got the new wheels put on...

VERY impressed with the look on the car. I wanted something that brought me back to a factory look, without having to run the narrow (and heavy) factory wheels. Mandrus recently released a new rotary-forged wheel called the Rotec. The spokes are silver with a thin machined strip on the face. The wheels reminds me a LOT of the factory AMG multi-spoke, seen on the SLK55, C63, etc. Only difference (visually) between front and rear wheels is the taper near the hub area... the faces are otherwise uniform from front to rear. Simply losing the lip on the rear of the car, and going with a wheel where the spokes are flush, made the wheels appear larger than they are.

These are very light off the car -- roughly 22 pounds for the front, 23 for the rear.

Specs below:

18x8.5 ET +32mm
19x9.5 ET +35mm

I will have to run a spacer in the rear for aesthetics only... functionally, the +35mm wheels fit perfectly with zero rubbing but the wheels sit inside the fender wells a bit further than I'm used to. The Rotec is available in +25mm offset, BUT those were back-ordered "indefinitely" and I wanted these on for the summer. The beauty of spacers is that I'll be able to custom-tailor the stance in the rear to my liking, so there's definitely a silver lining. I'm thinking a 12mm H&R spacer will be perfect.

But the fronts are bang-on, as expected. Wheel comes out perfectly flush with the body side, and will look even better once lowered.

As for tires, on the rear I'm running 285/30/19 in the Nitto INVO. So far, I love the tire. Definitely a softer sidewall, but sticky. The fronts are soldiering on with the 225/40 BFG KDW... those tires still had 6/32 left on them, much to my chagrin. Too much to throw away, but I don't really like the tire. So, expect to see new INVO's on the fronts soon.

These are just crummy cell-phone pics, I'll be getting some better photos once the spacers are installed.

Cheers,