16\" VW wheels

speedster356 Plastic not Classic Racing

1,624 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Oct 2002, 11:32 am

#6012

Is there such a thing as early (wide 5) 16" VW wheels?

Pete really wants a set of Split Beetle or Barndoor Kombi rims in 16" does any one have some 4 sale.

[Edited on 8-10-2002 by vw54]

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1,945 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 8 Oct 2002, 3:42 pm

#6054

check out the wheels on this split window

http://www.oldbug.com/split1.htm

Jon

geodon Wolfsburg Wizard

478 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 13 Oct 2002, 7:00 pm

#6822

Try Gary at Wolfsburg Automotive in Essendon, Vic.

I traded him some 16 inch ex Matador wheels about as part of of parts swap 4 years ago. They had the VW centres & bolt patterns but body of the wheel had slots like the split kombis & they looked like they had the kombi offset.
From memory they ran 670x16 light truck tyres.

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730 posts · joined Aug 2002 · 14 Oct 2002, 1:32 am

#6872

There used to be a few companies that could legally fit wider rims to any wheel - probably where yours come from, but I think the tighter regs killed 'em.

Anyone know of companies that can still do this?