Mike
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Hey I just recently bought a 2010 wrx premium and am looking to get new wheels and tires for summer use only. Any advice on what to get or where to look? Thanks.
All of this! Rays are extremely expensive but looked really good. Also I would stay with 17's. Lighter and usually more durable. I am always afraid I'm going to bend my 18's. Not much tire meat."wheeldude sucks"- from everyone whos ever bought from him.
Bridgestone potenza re-01r's are what I'm running now, best tire I've ever had!
advan and Rays are good quality wheels but very pricey.
I agree with this post!Get aftermarket 17's if you don't like anything OEM used.
For dedicated summer tires, if you're cheap, get Hankook RS3s, they're a great budget summer. If you have more to spend get Dunlop Direzza Star Specs. They discontinued the Bridgestone RE01R so people need to stop recommending them. Their successor is the RE11, which for the price/performance, you might as well just get Star Specs unless you want to spend more money. Granted I only know pricing for 205/55R16 so your millage may vary with 17s.
RS3:
http://tires.tirerack.com/tires/Hankook%20Rs3
Star Spec:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireModel=Direzza+Sport+Z1+Star+Spec&tireMake=Dunlop
RE11:
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tires.jsp?tireModel=Potenza+RE-11&tireMake=Bridgestone
As for rims, you can get fake wheels like Rota or XXR, but I'd personally go for something nicer. A bunch of people may jump down my throat about fake rims, they're fine if you garage your call all the time and only drive it to wicked big meet and back or whatever, but that's not how I roll. I play hard with my cars.
If it were me I'd be going for 17 inch Enkie RPF1s with Star Specs, nice light rim with good rubber. There's a ton of other rim choices, and I'm just starting to look into aftermarket after running OEM 16s on all my cars for years, so I may not be the best person to ask.