A fantastic new business idea: Rent-A-Rim
I never would have believed this one.
I went to visit my mom yesterday (I live in Wake Forest, North Carolina and she lives in Fayetteville, NC, about two hours away) and, after getting off the interstate, I decided to cut through a section of town to get to Toys-R-US. Wouldn't you know it, my car engine temperature shot up and I got to find out what its like to be sitting in 95 degree heat with a car that won't go. Fortunately, I was able to get it off the road (to be repaired sometime today, likely the clutch fan from what I'm told).
On the bright side, though, I was able to get this pic. Wow! For two hundred bucks a month, I can "rent" twenty inch rims. And for a bargain price of nearly 300 dollars month, I can "rent" 22's.
Really, what kind of idiot does something like that? Apparently, enough to keep these guys in business.
So far, I have resisted the entire "rim" thing. I did put new rims on my jeep grand cherokee, but I only spent about 400 and they actually look pretty good (they're the "drifters"). And on my WS6 Trans Am (2002 model, with 325 HP and only 7000 miles on the car, still smelling new and only coming out of its protective cocoon once a week, if that often, and never never never being driven in the rain), I have decided to forego buying the "torque thrust II's in favor of staying with the stock rims.
2 Comments:
I imagine someone that doesn't know how to save to get those rims. I think some of the rims can cost as much as 1k or more. I think that is ridiculous.
I remember dating a guy years ago that was into rims for some reason.
Naturally that relationship didn't last long our views on "investments" were completely different.
I'll bet (regarding investments). Rims can definitely spruce up a car's appearance. When I put the new ones on my old jeep, it made all the difference as far as appearance. It went from "yeah whatever" to "hey, not bad". But I think the set was a little over 400 with tax and that was all I was willing to spend. Even that seemed a little frivolous. But a grand is a lot, and sometimes that's per individual rim.
What happens when someone doesn't make the payments? Repoing a car is one thing, but it would seem a lot more problematic to "repo rims".
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