Candle1966
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Hi, I’m looking to change my wheels and would love an honest opinion on the value of a set of 4 Trident wheels in silver, really good nick (refurbished 2 years ago ) so only one step down from mint.
Good question. I bought a set of freshly refurbished Tridents off Dicky years ago. Can't remember what I paid but he was not cheeky and it was sub £500 IIRC. Actually fitted the fronts when I got new tyres recently as mine were suffering from brake dust issues. Personally I would keep them as spares and just buy a new set of what you want.Hi, I’m looking to change my wheels and would love an honest opinion on the value of a set of 4 Trident wheels in silver, really good nick (refurbished 2 years ago ) so only one step down from mint.
Tridents remind me of QP gt s wheels a little.
Yes they’re similar (Multi Trident I think is the official name) which have just 18 straight spokes rather than 15 with 10 slightly curved.Tridents remind me of QP gt s wheels a little.
Neptune wheels are the most sought after, closely followed by Stradale design wheels. Tridents and Astros are usually easy to find about £800, and Birdcage wheels which few people want, so they’re around £500 for a decent set. The Multi Tridents are really hard to find so about £2000 a set if they pop up.
Grigio mercury tridents looked great on my qp. The centre caps are cheap from MD too.Quite surprised at the figures, a set of Neptunes are available on eBay at 1750 plus post, I’m ready to refurbish my Tridents simply to change the colour to Grigio Mercury, which is going to cost £500, but thought I could snap up a set of Neptunes already in the colour I desire for little extra outlay. But it seems from the comments I’ll be spending at a little more than I want to…. I may be better off sticking to my original plan and have a mint set of Grigio Mercury tridents. Ummm
Where are you getting them powder coated?Hi midlife, yes the Neptune wheels are nice but I do believe the colour is the over riding factor, I am faced with £500 to have Trident wheels stripped and colour coded to Grigio Mercury or about £1100 to have Neptunes…
Platinum Alloys Swindon
I can't praise ceramic coating high enough, I used to own a Jag XKR and was forever polishing, clay barring, getting rid of tree sap, etc etc etc. Basically untold hours, after I'd sold the Jag a mate got his Porker ceramic coated, he jet washes it with a quick wax afterwards and bingo, I felt a right muppet looking back at the wasted time, naturally when I got my GT the first place it went to was the ceramic coaters who had it a week, machine polished out the swirls and duly coated it, looks great and will take less than the whole weekend to look minty.
Hi midlife, yes the Neptune wheels are nice but I do believe the colour is the over riding factor, I am faced with £500 to have Trident wheels stripped and colour coded to Grigio Mercury or about £1100 to have Neptunes…
If paint matching and following the correct HSE protocols £240 is very cheap.
At £500 I would expect proper preparation etc