It’d be the Pretoria reps in gunmetal for me.
I’d always avoid anything machined, especially at the lower priced end of the market. It’ll only be a matter of time before white worm corrosion sets in.
Factors to consider with alloys from CM Wheels;
- Bear in mind that they only sell alloys as sets of four so if you are unlucky enough to damage one, if it’s not repairable you’d be faced with buying a complete replacement set. However, if that does happen, at less than £500 for a set of four it wouldn’t be too expensive replacing all of them.
- The standard Seat centre caps may not fit. If they don’t, you can buy a set of centre cap stickers on various websites (e.g. eBay Etsy) and attach these to the centre caps supplied with the alloys.
- Wheel width and offset of the CM Wheels Pretoria reps are 8J and ET45 respectively. I may be wrong but I think the equivalent with 18” OEM factory alloys for the mk3 Leon FR are 7.5J and ET51. Therefore the face of the CM Wheels Pretoria reps will protrude outwards an extra 12.4mm and the inner face will be 0.3 mm closer to the suspension strut (according to the calculator on www.willtheyfit.com) compared to an 7.5J x 18” ET51 OEM factory alloy for the Leon FR (IMHO, the reps will give a slightly better stance than OEM).
