Oops, Sorry about the posting chaps. all the best. Curt

If we can get a forum discount I'll get a coupe of sets. WINNER - 2009 ‘Just Doing What It’s Designed To Do’ Award

2010 TDV8 HSE Galway Green - Adaptive Cruise - Sunroof - Privacy Glass - 5 Spoke Alloys
2009 TDV6 3.0 HSE Buckingham Blue - GONE

Photos of the wheels with and without the protectors up on the previous page!'' .

There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.


TDV8 HSE MY10 with pretty much everything including a vase of daffs on the back shelf, tropical fish collection in the centre console, hamsters in the spare tyre and finally sheep on the passenger seats.....for weight distribution, what else??

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Excellent, thanks Rad! If you didn't know they were there you are had pressed to spot it, looks like a great idea to me.

Thanks Rad - looks good

Early front runner for 2010 award there mate!!! Now - MY11 RRS Autobiography TDV6, Orkney gray, tints, steps, daylight running lamps and allllll the toys!!!
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Steuart64 wrote:

Thanks Rad - looks good

Early front runner for 2010 award there mate!!!

now if only he made a video

i'm buying them after seeing the pics, thanks, but what about pink ones?

Have aguy in the office an really tempted to get some pink ones and fit them to his car when he is out for a laugh

Great option

Great Job Rad and great Pics as well.

I would have posted two days ago but being quite new took me ages to upload the pics.

Here are my thoughts re: Alloygator.

Ordered online and very quick delivery. The package arrived with 4 hard plastic rings in it. I went for silver colour for my alloys.



One Alloygator straight out of packaging.

I decided to try doing this myself as the video on the website was quite user friendly.....

Tools used: Garden secateurs, Stanley knife, Flat blade scredriver, Rubber Millet, and a Pencil.

First I deflated one tyre and using the valve as a starting point started inserting the alloygator. As mentioned by the manufacturer it was quite easy to do and snapped in place quite well.



Starting point above.



Half way

Finishing was quite easy as well as I used a pencil to mark the overlap point and cut it using a garden secateurs. The fit was quite accurate and as Rad says a gap probably wouldn't look too bad.



Finishing Point.

I just did one wheel and went to tyre place and got them to do the rest.

My thoughts:

Looks like a good product but even if you have a ramp and proper tools to take the wheels off, re-inflate them and put them back on, it is a pig of a job. The whole job took over 2 and a half hours to do at the shop. There is always one wheel nut that won't come off easy...etc etc. I am glad I didn't do it myself.

The wheel did need balancing after putting the alloygator on in my case as we checked the balancing both before and after, though not by much.

The shop was also worried that because of the alloygator it seemed that the tyre side wall did not seem to sit properly on the alloy. This however may be an optical illusion of the alloygator.....

Does it look nice on the car---not sure yet, but here are the pictures so you decide.





Hope it helps you make up your mind.  Never argue with an idiot as he will drag you down to his level and then beat you with experience.

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They look excellent in silver...........once I have ruined the black ones, will probably change'' .

There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.


TDV8 HSE MY10 with pretty much everything including a vase of daffs on the back shelf, tropical fish collection in the centre console, hamsters in the spare tyre and finally sheep on the passenger seats.....for weight distribution, what else??

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was toying with getting some for the S4.......not any more....not for me sorry Current: I can't say...Oh the Shame!
Gone: 2003 Audi S4 - 340BHP of Fun
Gone: 2005 RRS SE, Silver, Chrome Mirrors, Tinted with a stupid spare wheel!
Gone: Audi A4 2.5 TDi Quattro 180bhp
Gone: BMW 535i
Gone: 1985 Audi Quattro
Gone: Subaru Imprezza Turbo (rubbish)

RAD wrote:

They look excellent in silver...........once I have ruined the black ones, will probably change''

RAD wrote:

They look excellent in silver...........once I have ruined the black ones, will probably change''

at first seemed like a great idea, but seeing the protrusion of those silver ones.....not for me!

I'm going to stick to just not hitting kerbs.

I thought that... are the silver pics of the completed job? If so, wtf is that all about?

The black ones don't seem to proud, although granted not taken from the same angle... 

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When you say.........pics of wheels fitted with black protectors, I assume you've seen the ones I posted on an earlier page???'' .

There is absolutely no substitute for a genuine lack of preparation.


TDV8 HSE MY10 with pretty much everything including a vase of daffs on the back shelf, tropical fish collection in the centre console, hamsters in the spare tyre and finally sheep on the passenger seats.....for weight distribution, what else??

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