Replica Vs. OEM

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I recently purchased a 2002 X5 4.4 with 35000 miles at New Century BMW in Southern California. Purchase price....$36,000...out the door price...38K! That includes extended warranty for up tp 100k miles or until June 2008 and an extended maintenance warranty until the same year or 100K. Not bad, huh! Anyways, I've begun to do my own modifiactions to the car. Recently I purchased a 4.6 front and rear spoiler and slapped those puppies on immediately...took me no longer than an hour to do. Im really trying to stick with the OEM 4.6 look! I did not get the flares (Spelling???), but it still looks pretty good. Now comes the wheels and tires???? Ive tried relentlessly to pick up some OEM 20" wheels like the one on the 4.6. However, Ive been pretty unlucky. People are just not selling them, or they're asking fo way toooooo much! So I started looking at some replicas. I found a pair from this manufacturer called AFS wheels located in Canoga park, CA. Theyre selling this package: 20" bmw replicas 9.5...10.5 staggard mounted on Toyo tires for $1985.00 out the door. Im sure they'll waive the tax if I pay cash... Anyways, My questions to you all is Replica or OEM....Lets keep the price in mind as well. Are the replicas tooo heavy? Do you think they'll be out of round?? Will I experience vibrations ??? Are the Toyos bad tires? Please help a brotha out and give me some advice. Also, if you know of anybody selling theyre 4.6 20's, Im definitely interested. Thanks for your time and GOD Bless!


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