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I might be wrong but I don't think the stainless ones are available from Alpina anymore so you might have to settle for chrome plated ones. I know that Alpina offered atleast 2 different stainless ones with the difference being the crown and they also offered their own lock for then. I am planning to machine a batch of them and hope to have them for sale in the next several weeks when the schedule in the shop allows.

OPEN ! all the way. In my opinion the closed ones are more fitting to the 90's Alpina lineup, such as the E34s and E32s. but the E28 needs to have open centers to look period correct.

In the end it is all personal taste though.

Open!

open looks "older" to me

covered looks "newer"

but i like the old, so OPEN!

Black Steel wrote:They both look great.

The open type give the car an earlier appearance while the closed type give a last of the line expensive look

exactly.

open lug!

Can't go wrong with either one. Both are beautiful on that car but if I had to pick..... OPEN!!!!!!!!!!

Roy late to the party but Open Lug all the way.And may I add what a great great looking car that you have.

Given my past Alpina experience (Ti, B6, B9), I would have thought for sure that I would have liked the open lugs best, but in your case I really think the green really sings with the closed lug wheels. Could be I have always lusted after Sia's B7 and that's what he has. Anyway steak or lobster, lobster or steak. I like both.

Open feels more old-school,
Closed is still old-school, but more sofisticated.

CLOSED

I've always thought the closed/capped looked great on the E34 (like Anita's B10 BiTurbo), but a little wrong for the E28. They look good, but don't blend for me like the open wheels do.

So another vote for OPEN.

Ha, if only we were all so lucky to have to choose!

My vote is for closed.... Beautiful car, one of my all time favorites

I vote for closed lug, but it's a really close call. I don't think the "period correct" argument should have anything to do with it, and the the closed lug design just looks cleaner to me.

I guess you better keep both sets, Roy, and just bolt on the other set every few times you drive it. You'll never second guess your decision that way.

The open lug ones look a little like the Weds I have on my car, so I definitely vote open.

OPEN!

One day, I hope to be in the position to have to make this type of decision. Right now the kind of decisions I make are more along the lines of: Fix the truck or the BMW or the Honda. I can never do more than 1 at a time.

I vote open lug.