[Andrew1127]

I'm currently in process of buying wheels for the stock summer tires. Looking at Fast FC04 wheels in metallic black, looking for any form of review of durability, etc even if on a different vehicle.
Got a month or two before I need to swap from my winters to the pilots.
Thanks

 

[Wolvessoulz]

I'm currently in process of buying wheels for the stock summer tires. Looking at Fast FC04 wheels in metallic black, looking for any form of review of durability, etc even if on a different vehicle.
Got a month or two before I need to swap from my winters to the pilots.
Thanks

I've got a set of those waiting for spring in my basement.
19x9.5 ET35 in Bronze.

They should fit the car no problem. They're flowformed as well, so the quality should be similar to mid-level wheels & they're light at under 20 pounds each for 19's.

19x8.5 should as well. I just went with the larger wheels to compensate for the ET29 of the factory wheels.

 

[Andrew1127]

Thanks for chiming in! You putting the stock pilots on the 9.5 or are they already on there? I looked at a chart for wheel width and tire width and saw that the tires are on the low end on fitting 9.5.

If you beat me to putting the wheels on post up a pic, what colour is your car?

 

[Wolvessoulz]

Yes I'll be putting the stock PS4S on the 9.5, the size is in the range of rim width of the tires per Michelin themselves so no issues there.

It's going to depend on weather, but usually I try to change winters to summer in Early-Mid April !
They'll be the Bronze FC04 on a Wave Blue CT5-V, should give off a decent look.

 

[Andrew1127]

I ended up getting Braelin BR14s. Very similiar looking to the FC04s and only a bit heavier. Flow formed also, as they are a branch of Fast. They have custom bore matching, and have the size for our CT5s without needing a hub ring. I normally change to and from winters in my garage/driveway, so not having to worry about buying hub rings everytime was a bonus, bonus it's a Canadian company and didn't have to pay for shipping.

If anyone else has bought aftermarket wheels feel free to post pics / chime in. I'll change the name of the thread.

 

[Andrew1127]

BR14s came in yesterday, pumped to get these bad boys on when weather warms up.

 

[Wolvessoulz]

Got my wheels as well and mounted the PS4's on already...
Just waiting on good weather now !

 

[Andrew1127]

Very nice!! Any chance you weighed your stock rims? I got my wheel sensors in last week, just waiting to mount them. Super excited, yours are looking good make sure you send a pic when they are on!

 

[Wolvessoulz]

Very nice!! Any chance you weighed your stock rims? I got my wheel sensors in last week, just waiting to mount them. Super excited, yours are looking good make sure you send a pic when they are on!

I have not weighted the stockers as they are on the car with the winter tires.
Though, normally cast 19x8.5 typically weight around 28-30 pounds each.

The FC04's in 19x9.5 are just 20 pounds ! That should give some performance gains. Your BR14's will be either 21 or 22 depending on offset, so very close !

 

[Andrew1127]

Ah yeah forgot that part lmfao. I havent been able to find anything about the weight of the stock wheels anywhere online. We've been getting warm weather, I think this weekend will be the last cold spurt hopefully. Sometimes I wish I lived down south lol, good fishing, hot weather, and no need for AWD and winters ahah.

 

[Wolvessoulz]

Ah yeah forgot that part lmfao. I havent been able to find anything about the weight of the stock wheels anywhere online. We've been getting warm weather, I think this weekend will be the last cold spurt hopefully. Sometimes I wish I lived down south lol, good fishing, hot weather, and no need for AWD and winters ahah.

Oh man, if it wasn't from this god awful weather and roads, I'd have either a ZL1, Z06 or Blackwing as a daily driver !
No need for a Summer & Winter car + 2 sets of tires/wheels.

I'll probably be putting the wheels on in 2 weeks or so, give the town some time to patch more potholes.

My CT5V is at the dealer for some paint issues and it's such a good timing with all the potholes around to have a loaner hah.

 

[Andrew1127]

Lolol. Can I ask what paint issues? I've talked to a couple guys, and looked at the other ct5/4 threads, seems like a few different things are popping up to be repaired under warranty.

 

[mrnonchalant]

Any pics of how the 19 x 9.5s look on the car? I've been itching to buy some new wheels for my 2020 CT5-V but have barely seen anyone touch these cars to give myself an idea of what size and specs would look best. Really just looking for something that gives a nice flush fit without much if any poking out to avoid any rubbing and potential fender damage.

 

[Wolvessoulz]

It's hard to go full flush as the OE offset is 29, on 8.5 wheels

But 19x9.5 with 35 offset is pretty good.

 

[Andrew1127]

Damn she's looking good. Lol gonna have to make sure you don't get any curb rash with the tires being a bit stretched.

 

[Oh5V]

hi my name is gerry i have just the wheels you need just email me at [email protected] and we can talk about this more.

yea...thats not shady or anything...
...also banned on mustangforums...

 

[NorthernSRX]

I recently ordered a CT5V but don't have a build date. Regardless, I don't expect my car before the end of the summer and am kind of torn here - my brain tells me to get 18s for the winter and keep the stock 19s for summer duty as I don't think a 40 aspect ratio on the stock 19s would do all that well on many of the roads up here (my city - Ottawa - runs its annual pothole festival from February to May every year). But I am tempted to go with nice aftermarket 19s for the summer and keep the stock 19s for the winter.

Did others in snowy areas consider 18s for the winter?

 

[Andrew1127]

I'm currently in your situation. I am running stock 19s for winter, and have nice black 19s for summers. I had to get winters on for delivery though and wasn't able to get another set of wheels on short notice so resorted to throwing winter tires on the stock rims, which gave me the winter to get ahold of rims for the summers.

It's not as bad now, but when I first got the car, alot of websites had the wrong specs for the wheels mainly bolt pattern was wrong. Have an eye for that still just incase, especially if your buying aftermarket.

 

[NorthernSRX]

I'm currently in your situation. I am running stock 19s for winter, and have nice black 19s for summers. I had to get winters on for delivery though and wasn't able to get another set of wheels on short notice so resorted to throwing winter tires on the stock rims, which gave me the winter to get ahold of rims for the summers.

It's not as bad now, but when I first got the car, alot of websites had the wrong specs for the wheels mainly bolt pattern was wrong. Have an eye for that still just incase, especially if your buying aftermarket.

Was considering just getting 18" take-offs for the winter. There are many people in snow-free regions who replace their stock wheels basically upon delivery of the car. In the past, a good number of my winter wheels have been these take-offs - not only are the prices good, they look okay on the car. Given that it's for winter, I'm not looking for quite the same ride/handling as I am in the summer.

 

[Andrew1127]

Yeah, I was in a situation where I had to toss winter onto the stock rims because I got the car right off the truck (I didn't order the car, just took someone's order since they backed out) Worked out though because I wanted to get some black wheels and they couldn't get a OEM set in black. I'm only like a hour+ south of Ottawa. Had no issues with the heavy snowfalls this past winter, but 18s would be great for a bit of more meat for the potholes.

I'm excited to get my summers on with the black rims and see how it looks, I'll post some pics up when I get them on, tires should be in next week, then just gotta get them balanced and mounted.