Taste test - Vulcan vs Zeus wheels

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I know it's up to me and my personal taste/preference but would appreciate your collective views in addition.

I am delighted with my S-Type R, and the silver finish - not a colour I would ever have chosen - is rapidly growing on me. The one thing I'm not sure about is the wheels which are the standard issue Vulcans; they just remind me of the Audi wheels I sometimes see which look like blades and, well, aggressive rather than powerful.

I have spotted some Zeus wheels which I think appeal to my tastes but must be from a later (or earlier?) S-Type as they don't appear in my 2005 brochure.

I have attempted to attach two images. I must admit that the larger, angled, tyre-clad picture of the standard issue Vulcan makes it look as attractive as the naked Zeus! But in a like for like comparison I think the Zeus is more traditionally Jaguar and more me.

Does anyone have a view? Even better, does anyone own either wheel and have a view?

Nigel

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Nigel.
I Have the Zeus Alloys on my 2002 as standard, click on 'My STR' below for pictures, or the Jec S Type Vehicle Register
where I have pictures of the Alloys before and after getting powdercoated.
One thing I would advise if you are going after the wheels currently for sale in the magazine, is to try and get the seller to send pictures of the insides, I had to have one of mine welded after I found a small crack, as you can see in the pictures.

Doug.

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Thanks Doug (Montana5), that's brilliant. I enjoyed my five mins watching the 10th anniversary link in your sig: lots of Zeus on show there plus the odd Vulcan, and it confirms i do prefer the Zeus. I presume this was an earlier wheel, not sure why they thought the Vulcan was better...

I am indeed thinking of the ones in the mag, but they're some way away from me so I need to think carefully before i commit and your advice is very sound.

V much appreciated.

May post soon about those twin exhausts of yours...

Nigel