here's stupid question of the day.

Why is it, that whenever i see widened wide 5 stud wheels for a type 1, they're always 14" ones, and not 15" ones (as per the usual narrow rims you find on bugs)?

is it some thing to do with load ratings/stress?

or is it just my imagination?

dont you just get sick of that LOL
dont worry its the same for 4 stud as well

all i can put it down to is most cars upto early to mid 90s were 14"
most wide vw wheels were just vw centers fitted to mainstream car rims
14" tyres are also cheaper than 15"

-Joel

Cause they were big in the eighties. So were 14 inch tyres. you dont want widies on your beast anyway. Do you?

Aha! that makes sense. cheers! :thumb


and nah, i was just thinking about them and wondered why they were all 14s when 15s were standard. it was just weird!

Yes
I think what was just said is correct...
firstly, 14 inch wide tyres were less expensive and easy to find...
secondly, with 14 inch tyres You lower the rear drive ratio
so you can accelerate faster...
but highest speed is lowered...

I have a set of 14 inch chromed rims which I didn't use...

I don't like them...
I'd rather have 16 inch than 14 inch..

Lee

LOL i repeat i do NOT, repeat NOT want fats

i like my stock smoothies.

yeah sure, We know you want em!

i have some 15 inch wide5 roh rims with stock centers on them. they are around just not as common.

Maybe 14's are a consequence of having to cut the centres out of them out of 15's?

I've got 15inch widened steelies on my car.. But yeah, most of them i see are 14's... even the guy in the tyre shop had to get a tape measure cause he didn't beleive they were 15's...

Hi

In the old days 15 inch tyres had huge sidewall profiles, so bugs would have looked like a praying mantice with them on and been over geared as well, and as already mentioned most popular cars had 13 or 14 inch wheels.

I remember thinking I was pretty cool when I fitted some 205x70x14 series tyres to my car, looking at my Falken catalogue they were about 647 mm high, close to stock height.

Steve
Steve

What's wrong with fats?


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go to wheel place that repairs truck wheels and they can weld larger diameter rims and wider rims on vw center I was looking at 17" outer rims .

i could show you a fat if you really want rens seen it he was suitably impressed

nice score jo-tas! ive got 14" widies on my lil wagon, tyres are certainly easy enough to get, most generic jap imports of the 90s ran 175/75 14s which suit the front perfectly and the 195s are easy enough to come by for the rear as well

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Originally posted by CAFFINEPUSHERMAN i could show you a fat if you really want rens seen it he was suitably impressed

nah homes us chocos are low on inches high on girth:P

a 2 inch beam witch shocks then

[ Edited on 12-9-2006 by Hertz ]