TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

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TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

May 02, 2008, 05:26:48 AM

heres the link

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Ford-TRX-Wheels-For-Mustang_W0QQitemZ120254882260QQcmdZViewItem

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #1 – May 02, 2008, 08:26:02 AM

$250?!?!? That guy's on crack. TRX wheels are worth about 60 cents/pound at a s yard, and that's about it. They're a nice looking wheel, but tires are nearly impossible to find for them, and if you do find some you'll pay big bucks. Aside from s metal about the only way to make TRX wheels useful is to do this to them, which is beyond the skills of most of us.

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #2 – May 02, 2008, 11:04:48 AM

Like I said before if they were 15" wheels I would sooooo be rocking the Cougar/T-bird style ones on my Bird. But yeah with the tires being $300+ each no f**king way :hick:

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #3 – May 02, 2008, 01:09:12 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302;216747

Like I said before if they were 15" wheels I would sooooo be rocking the Cougar/T-bird style ones on my Bird. But yeah with the tires being $300+ each no f**king way :hick:

I got a set of the Tbird ones with used tires that are bald but not showing cords. You can pay me $0.60 a pound for them other wise they will end up at the s yard. lol

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #4 – May 02, 2008, 01:37:33 PM

Quote from: slamedcat;216778

I got a set of the Tbird ones with used tires that are bald but not showing cords. You can pay me $0.60 a pound for them other wise they will end up at the s yard. lol

I bet it would cost more to ship them then they are worth as s :hick:

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #5 – May 02, 2008, 01:56:41 PM

Quote from: Carpimp1987

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice as someone's barstools.

Fixed it for ya.

I have a set in my basp00get. I don't know what I'm doing with them but I have 'em.

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #6 – May 02, 2008, 03:40:09 PM

Quote from: thunderjet302;216783

I bet it would cost more to ship them then they are worth as s :hick:

Meet me half way. I was thinking about going to the JC Whitney car show in LaSalle this Sunday.

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #7 – May 03, 2008, 02:57:35 AM

yes the only reason i posted those was that red T-Bird with the 460 has them looking like chrome. what size tires do you have to buy for them???

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #8 – May 03, 2008, 08:14:47 AM

The wheels on that red 460 'Bird have been heavily modified - in fact the TRX "wheels" have been cut down into hubcaps and attached to 17" chrome wheels.

The tire size for a TRX wheel is 220/55R390. The rim diameter is 390 mm, which works out to about 15.5"

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #9 – May 03, 2008, 01:37:36 PM

Quote from: slamedcat;216816

Meet me half way. I was thinking about going to the JC Whitney car show in LaSalle this Sunday.

I would but then I'd have four big paper weights for the garage :hick:

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #10 – May 03, 2008, 10:52:59 PM

hows come i remember getting around the whole metric thing a long time ago on my 84.

I told the guy to force on a set of regular so called "normal" tires and he said, ok but i wont take responsiblity. I had to sign the work order that i agreed to it.

for some odd reason i remember this like it was yesterday but for the life of me i cant remember what size he put on.

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #11 – May 04, 2008, 08:14:17 AM

Quote from: jcassity;217088

hows come i remember getting around the whole metric thing a long time ago on my 84.

I told the guy to force on a set of regular so called "normal" tires and he said, ok but i wont take responsiblity. I had to sign the work order that i agreed to it.

for some odd reason i remember this like it was yesterday but for the life of me i cant remember what size he put on.

I've just done the metric conversion. 390 mm is actually 15.35 inches. If the tire doesn't have a steel bead (fiberglass, instead) you might be able to force a 15" tire on, similar to how you can fit a 16" tire onto a 16.5" rim, but you're doing so at your own risk, as it puts the bead under tremendous stretching force that could blow at any moment. The bead design of the TRX rim was considerably different than a standard rim, too. I'm really surprised you could find somebody to do it for you, as that "any moment" is usually during the installation and under extremely high air pressure (35 PSI isn't going to seat those beads), and people have been seriously injured when doing so...

As an aside, had one of those tires blown out and caused an accident, your tire guy would have still been on the hook. Just because he had you sign something does not make it OK to send a vehicle out on the road that he knows is unsafe (and he knew it was unsafe if he had you sign the paper stating so).

By the way, TRX wasn't only a Ford/Michelin blunder. Many European car companies, including BMW and Jaguar, and even some puppiesanese companies (Datsun) got into it as well. Just google "TRX wheels" and you'll see plenty of threads from people with late 70's BMW's asking how to make tires fit them...

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #12 – May 04, 2008, 10:03:49 AM

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By the way, TRX wasn't only a Ford/Michelin blunder. Many European car companies, including BMW and Jaguar, and even some puppiesanese companies (Datsun) got into it as well.

True, but Ford was the biggest purveyor of whoring out the concept to North American vehicles. You'd expect something like that from Chrysler or even GM.

On the bright side, at least rims are easy to change. We could be stuck with early diesels like GM did...

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #13 – May 04, 2008, 02:30:37 PM

Quote from: EricCoolCats;217120

True, but Ford was the biggest purveyor of whoring out the concept to North American vehicles. You'd expect something like that from Chrysler or even GM.

On the bright side, at least rims are easy to change. We could be stuck with early diesels like GM did...

Ford can't even make parts that interchange between Ford vehicles correctly. You're surprised that they tried to do tires that wouldn't interchange with other rims? And even then, they didn't learn - look at the 97-0something F-150's with the hub-centric rims and collared lug nuts that they ended up having problems with. I guess the old tapered-seat 5-on-5.5" lugs used since forever were too simple for 'em...

TRX wheels on EBAY might look nice on someones cougar or T-Bird

Reply #14 – May 05, 2008, 09:25:15 AM

Quote from: EricCoolCats;217120

True, but Ford was the biggest purveyor of whoring out the concept to North American vehicles. You'd expect something like that from Chrysler or even GM.

On the bright side, at least rims are easy to change. We could be stuck with early diesels like GM did...

I could swear I remember GM having a 430mm rim on the firebirds.