Got my winter wheels figured out. I had my mind set on OEM alloys instead of the steelies (or multi-fit alloys) the dealership was providing. I had to drive out to Warren, MB to pick them up from an auto recycler - he was in the process of moving all his wheels from his yard/shop to his house/yard. These ones are from a 2010-11 Mazda3.
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They were still wrapped in shitty rubber, but he told me if I drove to his shop 15 minutes down the road in Woodlands, his guy would remove the tires for me. So I did. Then I stopped by a car wash and gave them a decent scrub before dropping them off at the car dealer, who will remove the Blizzaks from the steelies and re-install them on these alloys. That adventure basically took me an entire afternoon and almost a half tank of gas.
Two of the wheels were missing the center caps - the frustrating part is there are two styles of Mazda centre caps - deep tabs and shallow tabs. Amazon has a large selection of Mazda center caps, but they're all shallow tabs. Ebay had the deep ones, but they were like $27 ea. I never figured a Mazda dealer would be competitive, but I ended up calling my local Mazda dealer, and it turns out they are a reasonable $13ea for OEM caps. So I ordered two.
The car goes in on Saturday to have the wheels switched over - yay, I get a break from doing them myself this fall
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