Some pictures of my daily driver

Looks very nice! Good pictures - where did you take those? Norfolk by any chance? (Coltishall maybe?)....

Stunning, what finish is on the alloys?

Very nice indeed

Silver is growing on me....

I know the Porker is not yours but is that your boat...

silver always scrubs up well (just like Black hehe) and yours is no exception. A stunning piece of polishing there

The wheels aren't 'standard' fare at all I dont think. They are off an M5 e39 IIRC, or at the very least they are fantastic replicas. Looks good.

Zitat von Wildatheart

Thanks! I believe these are genuine BMW wheels, but I think the M5 wheels have deeper dishes..?

I believe that those wheels were only ever available from BMW for the M5 and they do indeed have a deeper dish, which would make those replicas. They look OK but if it were possible to get a set of genuine M5 wheels to fit I'd go down that route as they'd look really great.

Car looks gorgeous though, best colour and one hell of a shine!

Beautiful machine

Well they're style 65 for sure if they're real or reps, who knows but they do look nice on your 8.

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Very nice The silver really shows of the 8

It's a little hard to tell from the pics, but it looks like the rears don't have the lip they should have which suggests that all four wheels are the same width whereas the rears should be wider. I think that might be why they don't look quite right, though they could still be genuine, just the wrong width.

You'd think so though it's not always the case! There's a set of replicas on eBay and despite the fact that they are all 8.5s, the fronts have 245 tyres and the rears 255s.

You know what? I reckon it's probably just me then! Ignore everything I've said so far because I look like a d**k for telling you they're probably reps when it now looks like they're real. Shows you how much I know

Seb, I'm posting this in my alter ego of 'that bloke who writes into motoring magazines'.....

looking at the wheels on this I'd say the lip is bigger than the the ones in question here..... and look at what is nestling in the background ??

Tony, I'm inclined to agree but I don't want to go around accusing people who I've never spoken to before of having replica wheels so I think I'm going to sit this one out until someone comes along and finds some good, hard (ooh-err) evidence that I'm right!