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Originally Posted by ronmcdon
If you think I'm ranting about the price alone, you're misunderstanding me.
No, I got my CE's for US$2,040-ish staggered 17x8.5 & 17x9.5 for my s14
That was sometime in 2007.
My gripe isn't about the cost of wheels so much as the high price hike within 5 years.
Not like there's no middle ground between knockoffs & ritzy 3k wheels.
I honestly doubt moving from Volks to a more 'modest' set of Advans is going to jeopardize my life or throw my SOW lap times by anything meaningful.
It's not a drastic 'all or nothing' situation!
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Ummmm, you guys are missing the point, this has nothing to do with metal prices or anything like that. You have to look at the global economy. Rays engineering isn't actually charging much more for their wheels now compared to 2007. The difference is, a huge change in the exchange rate between the dollar and yen. Here's an example:
19" TE37's have an MSRP of about 90,000yen, so obviously 4 wheels is 360,000yen. In mid 2007, the exchange rate was around 125yen to 1 dollar. This month, it's been averaging about 82yen for one dollar.
So, in 2007, 19" TE37's would have ran $2880 retail price. Price now would be $4390.
Does this suck? Hell yeah it sucks, especially for those of us who get paid in American dollars, but live in Japan. But it's not like Ray's Engineering is trying to fuck over people, they have barely raised their prices at all, the shitty ass US dollar is what is fucking you, not the company.