I'm looking for these rims for my 2012 G37x sedan. I've read that you can't run staggered rims on the AWD models so I am looking for four fronts.

My only question at this time is whether or not these rims came from Infiniti in both dark and light shades? I am looking at some refurbs on Ebay and am seeing the same rim but with a dark and light description and I'm not sure if that is at the discretion of the refinishers of the wheel or if these rims actually came in two different shades from the factory?

Example: This link specifies 'light hyper', and upon scrolling down it looks like they also offered the rim in 'dark hyper'.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/25471197814...Bk9SR_D6s8rbYA

 

The OEM duckfoot alloys were sourced from Enkei. For the USDM, I only saw them produced in light silver.

 

I have only seen the factory duckfert in hyper silver as well. I was told by my local shops that the factory hypersilver is a tri-coat paint and is difficult and somewhat expensive to replicate versus other standard colours/paints. I'm betting the dark hypersilver are refinished rims and the light hypersilver are original rims in good condition, but thats just my guess. Also, you can run staggered rims on an AWD, you just have to make sure your overall tire diameter between the front/rear is within 1% variance. There is lots of info on that topic within this forum which you can find if you just do a little digging.

 

Thanks fellas. Regarding the bolded, if I bought up a beat up pair of the rims, am I looking at an expensive refurb from my local rim shop?

 

I guess that would depend on your local shop. I got my coupe 19's refinished for a reasonable price but they couldn't match the hypersilver which is why I got a discount.