Velgen VF5 weights

[Jjmoberg]

I posted replies in both the what did you do to your Mach1 and what did you do to your S550 threads, but want to put a fresh thread here for informational purposes.

Got my Velgen VF5s in 19x10/19x11 gloss gunmetal yesterday afternoon. Just an FYI mine are heavier than advertised. Velgen states 22-23 lbs for both front and year. Mine were 24.2/24.4 front and 24.8/25.0 rear. I weighed them each twice. That was on a scale that is a little light in that weight range. My scale weighs a 22 lb and a 27.5 lb dumbell both about .2 lb light.

Im gonna keep them cause thats still way lighter than the OEM HP wheels. But had i known the weight i may have stuck with my original plan of SVE M1 HP replica wheels for less $ and 1 - 1.5 lb lighter each, or saved a bit more $ for 3-4 months and gotten forged wheels.

All that said they are beautiful wheels!

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[Joshinator99]

Agreed, they are really nice! Love mine as well. I went with bigger wheels than stock (19” vs 18”) and much wider tires (275/295 vs 235) and the Velgen wheel tire combos were still lighter than stock!

 

[skinnyb]

I love the VF5 as well. I opted for them before the 19's were available so I got 20's. They look really nice and are significantly lighter than the factory PP wheels I had..

 

[Champale]

Those are great looking wheels!

Don't feel too bad about them weighing slightly more than advertised - I have bought a lot of custom forged wheels over the years and it's pretty normal for the wheels to show up heavier than promised. Usually they were 10-20%(!!) heavier than they would tell me when spec-ing them out and ordering, although twice wheels have been LIGHTER than they thought they would be. One of the companies (HRE) actually took the overweight wheels back and re-cut them because they were embarrassed that the wheels came in so much heavier than they thought they would be.

 

[GrabberBargeCaptain]

They look great, lets be honest it's tough to notice that small weight difference especially on a street car. On other cars I've changed from 25 lb to 15 lb wheels (from 215 to 225 tire size so not dramatically heavier tire) and barely noticed a change, and that was a 200hp 2700 lb car.

 

[Nawsad123]

An under rated wheel imo. Lightweight and weigh around the same as a VMS dragpack set but look 10x better. Satin black wheels + magnetic paint = clean look

 

[Mum4rdV8]

Pulled the trigger on the 19" gunmetal. Doing a squared setup with 285/35 once i figure out how i'm going to pay for all this....lol. I looked at a lot of wheels but always came back to these for some reason. Trying to find something that goes with the Carbonized Grey other than black wheels was hard for me.

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