Anyone have a photo of a Charger with the 17x8 or 17x9 aluminum Magnum 500's on it?

[furious70]

Trying to decide if I'd like it

 

[fine69]

Uuuuuugly!….. in my humble opinion.
One of the first things I changed when got this car.

 

[furious70]

Hmmmm no raised white letters makes a big difference with them maybe ...

 

[fine69]

Hmmmm no raised white letters makes a big difference with them maybe ...

Maybe. I don’t recall seeing any RWL tires in a 17” but I haven’t exactly gone looking for them either. A guy could always order tire stickers too. They supposedly last as long as the tire itself.

 

[Rusty knuckles]

Personally I think they're ugly. I think 17" can look good on a charger but something about the proportion of those wheels is way wrong. 1970 Dodge Charger RT

 

[6PKRTSE]

Agreed, I don't like them either.

 

[dfrazz]

IMO they don't look good in pictures and look even worse in person. Unless you are going for a modern resto-mod build (even then...), I would suggest sticking with 15" wheels.

 

[funknut]

Yea it's unfortunate. Calling the 17"s Magnum 500s is a stretch IMO. They really don't have much in common with the old ones. The spokes are totally different, as is the lip. Probably something to do with clearing disc brake calipers.

 

[furious70]

I would prefer to move to 17" as the 17's on my fury made a huge handling improvement and on 28" tire there's still sidewall. 18" starts to push the rubber band tire look IMO.
It appears there's significantly less 17" tire availability now vs 5yrs ago though.

 

[furious70]

I agree I'm not in love with the mag500's

 

[Coelacanth]

Hmmmm no raised white letters makes a big difference with them maybe ...

When the sidewall rubber is that thin, you'd hardly see the white letters anyway...as has been said, unless you're going for a resto-mod, I wouldn't go higher than 15". 16" would be cool but that's very hard to find. Those wheels on the yellow Charger kind of make it look like a Hot Wheels toy, IMO.

 

[furious70]

Like I said, I do want 17/18's because I want better tire performance to go along with the Bilsteins and 1.08 bars