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<\/a>After 5 years, the Prius is finally paid off, and to celebrate I decided to buy it a new pair of shoes. Well, maybe not so much to celebrate the payoff but more because the tires were so bald that I would practice drifting<\/a> on a regular basis on the way home. I was actually getting pretty good at it and was thinking of competing.<\/p>\n

<\/a>I wanted to get a much wider tire, so I also had to get different wheels, and if you’re going to get new wheels why not make them nice and shiny! <\/p>\n

This is a before photo with the stock wheels\/tires. <\/p>\n

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