Driving down to Portsmouth, joined the A3 at Tolworth. Next lane over was a yellow E36 Beemer M3, Lexus style rear lights, and weird spinners on the wheels. They were like a second set of spokes, and span independently of the wheels- such that they would take a few seconds to spin once under way, and would spin for a few seconds when stopped. I thought they made a car that had already been ruined look comically ridiculous. Any purpose at all for these? First time I've seen them.
Alex.
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Dr Alex Mears
Seat Leon Cupra
If you are in a hole stop digging...unless
you are a miner.
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I think the word is "BLING!"
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Driving down to Portsmouth, joined the A3 at Tolworth. Next lane over was a yellow E36 Beemer M3, Lexus style rear lights, and weird spinners on the wheels.
I spied said spinners at the same location a few days ago.
There was a thread on them a few weeks ago.
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Apm, the correct procedure from yourself would have been to point and luagh.
It's the only way they'll learn.
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The 'proper' ones (if such a thing exists) actually have the spinny bit engineered into the wheel and can cost up to $20k. That said, they still look ridiculous and having cheap stick-on bits is even worse.
Thinking about it though, didn't Rolls Royce or Bentley have hubs that stayed upright so the logo was always visible? Let's hope they don't go the 'bling' route for the next models...
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I would imagine the M3 did have the proper ones on. I can't imagine they fitted steel wheels and plastic spinner hubcaps to an M3.
Even the proper ones do have a back set of fixed spokes, which take the weight, then the overly chromed spinning ones, which are purely adornment.
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You sure it was an M3. If you have an M3 do you really put Lexus lights on the back? Sounds to me like a 316 with an M3-esque bodykit and M3 wing mirrors on it, thrown together by some would-be gangsta. Spinny hubcaps are probably cheaper than M3 (replica) alloys.
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For some reason americans are starting to have cars with chrome alloy wheels, nothing is more bling-bling than that.
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Saw these for the first time around Tottenham on the way home on Friday.
I think they were on a black beemer.
One was stationary whilst moving but I think the other three turned on the move but carried on when the car stopped.
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Sounds as if we'll shortly be returning to the go faster stripes, matt black bonnets etc etc of the 1960s.
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L'escargot by name, but not by nature.
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Sounds as if we'll shortly be returning to the go faster stripes, matt black bonnets etc etc of the 1960s. --
There's a picture to conjure with - take your beemer with his spinny wheels, add a nice big silver double racing stripe over the top of the car (and over the black vinyl roof), put a nodding dog (with light up eyes) on the parcel shelf then add a whiplash aerial....
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you have to get out of the car sometime
so visit www.mikes-walks.co.uk
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Any purpose at all for these?
To bring attention to the vehicle and let you give it a very wide berth due to the driver's questionable intelligence. The other clues were there for all to see, so you can't say the driver wasn't giving you plenty of warning. Quite helpful really!
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Try these (warning - ebay content!!)
tinyurl.com/6nae3
There's also a guy selling spinners for 99p to cater for the lower end of the market.
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