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GTVAPSAMTIK 03-14-2010 04:19 PM

WIll these wheels match stock front
 
I want to order wider wheels for rear only. I dont have enough money for front but for rear i want 17x 10.5
Can anyone tell me these wheel from AM, match the color of my front stock wheels ? Also are my stock wheels 17 or 18inches ?


wheels Id like to order someday.
http://www.americanmuscle.com/dedibuwh.html

http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/DSC01562.jpg
http://i960.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/angel007.jpg

WhiteFoxGT 03-14-2010 04:34 PM

Stock wheels are 17x8

And I have heard of the wheels not being exactly the same color..(very minor minor difference) But thats just word of mouth I have no personal experience

bopiela 03-14-2010 04:53 PM

chances are there will be a slight difference because they probably arent allowed to replicate the actual color. how different or noticeable it is, i couldnt tell ya... might be worth trying, might not though... good luck man, they are nice looking wheels.

StriderTacticaL 03-14-2010 04:54 PM

I bought 17x9 bullitts from AM for my rears and it matched one of my front rims pretty well. The thing is i'm still not 100% sure if Ford used the exact same color bullitts from 99-04. I heard they might have switched midway.

It was only after buying my 17x9's that I realized that my front rims did not match one another (bought the car used). My front left rim looks like this:

http://bullittarchive.com/1000/1012/image002.jpg

This is a pic of my front right rim:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/...2229f5b2_b.jpg

You can notice a difference in the surface texture. The first one seems light gray with flakes and the 2nd one is more solid metallic and darker gray. So take a closer look at the rims that you have now. Come to think about it, I think Ford did change the bullitts midway from the first pic to the 2nd one. My car was a lease vehicle before I bought it so i'm guesing they might have switched my left rim to an older style one.

So judging by your pic, it seems that you have rims like the 2nd pic. In which case, the wheels from AM will match fairly well.

GTVAPSAMTIK 03-14-2010 06:14 PM


Originally Posted by StriderTacticaL (Post 6877542)
I bought 17x9 bullitts from AM for my rears and it matched one of my front rims pretty well. The thing is i'm still not 100% sure if Ford used the exact same color bullitts from 99-04. I heard they might have switched midway.

It was only after buying my 17x9's that I realized that my front rims did not match one another (bought the car used). My front left rim looks like this:

http://bullittarchive.com/1000/1012/image002.jpg

This is a pic of my front right rim:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/...2229f5b2_b.jpg

You can notice a difference in the surface texture. The first one seems light gray with flakes and the 2nd one is more solid metallic and darker gray. So take a closer look at the rims that you have now. Come to think about it, I think Ford did change the bullitts midway from the first pic to the 2nd one. My car was a lease vehicle before I bought it so i'm guesing they might have switched my left rim to an older style one.

So judging by your pic, it seems that you have rims like the 2nd pic. In which case, the wheels from AM will match fairly well.

Thanks a bunch, are these Anthracite Deep Dish Bullitt ?

This is what I am thinking about ordering as soon as they become available.
http://www.americanmuscle.com/dedibuwh.html

StriderTacticaL 03-14-2010 07:02 PM


Originally Posted by GTVAPSAMTIK (Post 6877708)
Thanks a bunch, are these Anthracite Deep Dish Bullitt ?

This is what I am thinking about ordering as soon as they become available.
http://www.americanmuscle.com/dedibuwh.html

No problemo....the ones I have are not deep dish. The 17x9's I bought are for the rear of my car. I wrapped them in 275/40 Nitto DR's. Heres a pic:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2726/...82960434_b.jpg

They look stock but they're not. I'm not a huge fan of deep dish and I also didn't feel I needed 315's, so I went with this.

So basically all my rims match fairly well all around except for my front left one which looks like the rim in the first pic I posted.

scooby208 03-15-2010 07:18 AM

they look great.

teej281 03-15-2010 08:12 AM

Ford switched colors for the bullitts in for 03...they became a smoother color and texture. You have we'll call them the first generation bullitt style wheels and the ones from AM wont match that great and it will bug you until you can afford to get the fronts changed. I'd just wait and buy them all at the same time so they all match.


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