Got the wheels, and gotta say, I was pretty pissed. Not anything about the wheels but FedEx. My wife works from home most of the week except Wednesday's and the wheels were supposed to be here on Tuesday, which she was going to be home for, so, cool. The wheel shop shipped them w/ "Direct signature required" for obvious reasons, it said so on FedEx's tracking site. Following the tracking all week, seeing it move from CA to AZ to TX to PA, all looking good. And then on Monday it just stops in PA. And Tuesday...sitting in PA.... OK fine, I had the appt to get the tires mounted on Friday, so I had some margin.
And then the wheels start moving again tuesday night, in MD, and then finally in VA by Wednesday morning and on a truck out for delivery. Damnit. I didn't have a lot going on at work that day and plenty of vacation, so I was thinking about calling out, but my wife says "Well it's gotta be signed for so OK it'll be delayed a day but I'll be home on Thursday". Go to work and around 11 I check the tracking and... DELIVERED. WTF?!?!?! SO now I'm racing home to see if the boxes were left on the back deck or somewhere inconspicuous. And guess what I saw when I got home. A nice big stack of "VOSSEN" boxes right in front of my garage.
OK, rant over. I get the wheels out of the boxes, look them over, all
. Finish came out damn near perfect, they look amazing in person and fit like a glove. I put them on the front hubs and gave them a spin and absolutely no runout/wobble at all -- like they came off a lathe. Only thing that surprised me was the offset. When I was talking to the shop they said the reco'd fittments were 19x8.5+35 Front & 19x10+42 Rear, which they'd used for years on S197's no problems. It was different from the fittment American Muscle had on their site for the VFS-1's (19x8.5+32 Front & 19x10+48 Rear), but wheels are their business
When I test fit the rims, it looked like the wheels were sticking out from the wheel wells, but when when you look down the side of the car, they actually come pretty much right in line with the fenders. Maybe I'm used to the stock rims which are inset like an inch. I'm a little worried about rubbing, but I think my suspension isn't slammed, the tires are going to curve in at the shoulder, and my Konig 18's are about the same, so I should be fine.
Konigs, which never gave me a problem (and I've bottomed out the suspension a few times)