Hi everyone
When I bought my brand-new Ateca last December, it came with summer tires so I also bought a winter tire set right away. I always hated the fact that careless tire shop workers might damage the alloys when the time to change tires comes twice a year, so through the years I made a custom of having a second alloy wheel set for the winters, shod them once and never remove the tires from them until they got damaged or worn away. That didn't change this time either; I also bought a relatively cheap alloy wheel set that I liked. They were from a Turkish manufacturer which serves a lot of famous car brands as an original equipment manufacturer. I started to use them right away in those winter months, but they looked a tiny bit wider than they had to be, and seem to be protruding a little bit to the outside from the inner edge of the tire. Anyway, I wasn't sure of my observation but it proved true when I switched to the summer tires in early April. The guys at the tire shop told me that my protruding wheels have damaged the sidewall of my two rear tires, probably when they hit a pothole or something like that, even though the tires have a rim protection strip.
Now I will probably have to replace those two damaged tires, because no repairs can be made on sidewalls, and I don't want history to repeat itself so I've been considering to replace the alloy wheel set too. I have already chosen one; this time an original Cupra wheel that they sell through the accessories line. But this wheel model has two color variants, one is silver & black and the other is copper & black. Now my question is, which one do you think would suit better to a graphite grey Ateca? My taste for wheels almost always favored shiny silvers but this time I'm not sure, so please contribute with your own two cents.
Cheers & best regards,
Serdar
When I bought my brand-new Ateca last December, it came with summer tires so I also bought a winter tire set right away. I always hated the fact that careless tire shop workers might damage the alloys when the time to change tires comes twice a year, so through the years I made a custom of having a second alloy wheel set for the winters, shod them once and never remove the tires from them until they got damaged or worn away. That didn't change this time either; I also bought a relatively cheap alloy wheel set that I liked. They were from a Turkish manufacturer which serves a lot of famous car brands as an original equipment manufacturer. I started to use them right away in those winter months, but they looked a tiny bit wider than they had to be, and seem to be protruding a little bit to the outside from the inner edge of the tire. Anyway, I wasn't sure of my observation but it proved true when I switched to the summer tires in early April. The guys at the tire shop told me that my protruding wheels have damaged the sidewall of my two rear tires, probably when they hit a pothole or something like that, even though the tires have a rim protection strip.
Now I will probably have to replace those two damaged tires, because no repairs can be made on sidewalls, and I don't want history to repeat itself so I've been considering to replace the alloy wheel set too. I have already chosen one; this time an original Cupra wheel that they sell through the accessories line. But this wheel model has two color variants, one is silver & black and the other is copper & black. Now my question is, which one do you think would suit better to a graphite grey Ateca? My taste for wheels almost always favored shiny silvers but this time I'm not sure, so please contribute with your own two cents.
Cheers & best regards,
Serdar
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