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This thread is based on C7 wheel pricing patterns — with of course a few best guesses thrown in. Based on how GM comparatively priced them, here’s what C8 wheel pricing could be.
Tadge quipped at the 2018 BASH about GM leaving $4 on the table with most of their options ending $X95 instead of $x99, so I incorporated that change. Might he have just been fooling?
Of course, all the below price estimates are based on the leaked, certainly-not-verified specs.
1) $0 = Split/Open Spoke Standard: Bright Silver: Option code Q8P
2) $499 = Split/Open Spoke Wheel: Carbon Flash: Option code Q8Q
3) $1,499: Machine Faced 5-Trident, with Sterling Silver: Option Code Q8S
4) $1,499: Machine Faced 5-Trident, with Spectra Gray: Option Code Q8T
Then we get to the two wheels which are listed on those specs as a LPO option, meaning obtainable only as a second/additional purchase over the counter from a dealership.
1) $499: Split/Open Spoke Wheel: Performance, Pewter: LPO* Option code 5DF
*I think that its LPO listing is a typo and that they would be factory order-able, however its option code is completely different from the above four wheel choices, so???
Note: If it truly is an a LPO option,a second/additional set of wheel, if so its price would be in the same $4,500/set range as most previous LPO other Corvette wheel sets have been.
Interestingly, its verbal description includes a word not used on any other wheel description, and that is the word “Performance.” Does that make it a third wheel option, or is it another word typo that is often found in the first set of specs for a new model — especially as again these are leaked, non-verified specs?
2) $499: 5-Trident Black wheels: Option code LPO: 5DG. I believe that these would be same wheel as Q8S and Q8T but not have polished five main spoke faces, also not have a polished wheel perimeter ring, and instead of having shiny Carbon Flash Black Metallic paint, have satin or a flat black paint.
As before noted, if these truly are a LPO wheel, would these only be order-able from the dealer as a second/additional set as all LPO options are? If so, bump the price of a true second set to around $4,499.Again, I think this “LPO” is a mistake, that those three letters would not be there when we see the official specs, and that these wheels would be factory order-able at $499/set.
Of course another unanswered “elephant in the room” question is, might there be a chrome option ? I do think know, but if so, with the ever increasing haz mat costs of a chroming process, my guess is that their price would be increasing to $2,499/set.
Lastly, we have seen in a some posts that “I am getting aftermarket wheels based on what I’ve seen so far.”
Tadge quipped at the 2018 BASH about GM leaving $4 on the table with most of their options ending $X95 instead of $x99, so I incorporated that change. Might he have just been fooling?
Of course, all the below price estimates are based on the leaked, certainly-not-verified specs.
1) $0 = Split/Open Spoke Standard: Bright Silver: Option code Q8P
2) $499 = Split/Open Spoke Wheel: Carbon Flash: Option code Q8Q
3) $1,499: Machine Faced 5-Trident, with Sterling Silver: Option Code Q8S
4) $1,499: Machine Faced 5-Trident, with Spectra Gray: Option Code Q8T
Then we get to the two wheels which are listed on those specs as a LPO option, meaning obtainable only as a second/additional purchase over the counter from a dealership.
1) $499: Split/Open Spoke Wheel: Performance, Pewter: LPO* Option code 5DF
*I think that its LPO listing is a typo and that they would be factory order-able, however its option code is completely different from the above four wheel choices, so???
Note: If it truly is an a LPO option,a second/additional set of wheel, if so its price would be in the same $4,500/set range as most previous LPO other Corvette wheel sets have been.
Interestingly, its verbal description includes a word not used on any other wheel description, and that is the word “Performance.” Does that make it a third wheel option, or is it another word typo that is often found in the first set of specs for a new model — especially as again these are leaked, non-verified specs?
2) $499: 5-Trident Black wheels: Option code LPO: 5DG. I believe that these would be same wheel as Q8S and Q8T but not have polished five main spoke faces, also not have a polished wheel perimeter ring, and instead of having shiny Carbon Flash Black Metallic paint, have satin or a flat black paint.
As before noted, if these truly are a LPO wheel, would these only be order-able from the dealer as a second/additional set as all LPO options are? If so, bump the price of a true second set to around $4,499.Again, I think this “LPO” is a mistake, that those three letters would not be there when we see the official specs, and that these wheels would be factory order-able at $499/set.
Of course another unanswered “elephant in the room” question is, might there be a chrome option ? I do think know, but if so, with the ever increasing haz mat costs of a chroming process, my guess is that their price would be increasing to $2,499/set.
Lastly, we have seen in a some posts that “I am getting aftermarket wheels based on what I’ve seen so far.”
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