Trident wheel value?

[Candle1966]

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.

 

[Candle1966]

No tyres btw

 

[bigbob]

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.

 

[Gazcw]

Sold my nearly new trident design without tyres for £750 on here.

 

[dickygrace]

Trident wheels are cheap, around £600-800 a set, Neptunes are about £1600-1800 usually.

 

[MarkMas]

Trident wheels are cheap, around £600-800 a set, Neptunes are about £1600-1800 usually.

Which is odd, since Tridents are nice and Neptunes are weird.

 

[Gazcw]

Which is odd, since Tridents are nice and Neptunes are weird.

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Tridents remind me of QP gt s wheels a little.

 

[dickygrace]

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.

 

[dickygrace]

Which is odd, since Tridents are nice and Neptunes are weird.

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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.

 

[Candle1966]

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

 

[Gazcw]

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

Grigio mercury tridents looked great on my qp. The centre caps are cheap from MD too.

 

[Candle1966]

Yes, decision made, I’m better of refurbishing mine to Grigio Mercury, it’s the colour I’m really after, I do think it brings a harder edge to the look.

 

[midlifecrisis]

Which is odd, since Tridents are nice and Neptunes are weird.

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I disagree, a nice clean Neptune is a sight to behold. They are unique design that only a Maserati can wear.
And what's better than a nice clean Neptune? Two dirty ones in the Moscva? No, two clean fronts

 

[Candle1966]

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…

 

[JJbing]

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…

Where are you getting them powder coated?

 

[Candle1966]

Platinum Alloys Swindon

 

[MarkMas]

Platinum Alloys Swindon

If you are in the Swindon area, can you recommend someone to do ceramic coating around there?

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.

 

[MAF260]

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…

£500 is OTT. I pay £240 for a properly refurbed set of 4 of any diameter.

 

[JJbing]

If paint matching and following the correct HSE protocols £240 is very cheap.
At £500 I would expect proper preparation etc

 

[CatmanV2]

If paint matching and following the correct HSE protocols £240 is very cheap.
At £500 I would expect proper preparation etc

I pay a little more here: Top notch company and if you have all four done, they will correct (if possible) any bends. £85 per wheel for my Jaaaaag's fake splits.

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