I've searched and I cant find if these are made or not. Curious to know if anyone does make them and if not, why not?

Cheers, John.

mate, these are illegal to use on the road in australia. they can be engineered to be legal, but first you would need to find and engineer willing to sign off on them.

better off converting to wide five all the way around.
i believe that vintage does a disc brake set for wide five. so does vw conversions but i got stung big time by him so i dont recommend him.

basically if you find said engineer, he is probably going to specify what materials they need to be made out of.

no problem mate, its better to ask than get stuck and have to look for a new direction once going.

John Sherman sells them, and Classic, I have a second hand set if you want.

DON'T buy Shermans/Volksconversions. They stand no chance of passing an engineers inspection unless the engineer is fall over drunk at the time.

Even Vintages stuff you need to see it and have an engineer check it over b4 you part with your money unless the Vintage gear has Oz wide ADR approval already.

Correctly made adapters should be legal here but the ADR is a bit old fashioned and agricultural in it's approach to things IMO. They need to get with the times a bit quicker

Spacers can be bought from good suppliers in Europe, UK and USA.

At the end of the day, unless the central hub is a cast or machined item that includes the wheel mounting surface then all other kits, like airkewld and CSP, use an adapter plate to mount the wheel to the hub. This in essence is nothing more than a wheel adapter.

get the made your self out of 20 mm plate it will pass

I said Sherman's adapters. They are the same imported ones that other VW shops sell. I'm not saying they are legal, or I like them or his brake kits which I feel your thinking of Nils. On that subject, give me a call, I'll tell my opinion of the 'approved front disc' conversion kit, and not just hearsay.

Nils, these days it's hard to give a written opinion on something as it could lead to being sued just for having an opinion on something.

As it is for a legal opinion you'd have to have an engineer check the kit over but next time you are at Action or Dubs at Pub and you can look the kit over then you can form your own opinion on it's worthiness.

Early in the piece i bought a couple of disc brake conversions kits from the fore said vendor, i could not bleed the first set, when i pulled it apart it had only had a taurbmans reco with a can of black paint with new pads fitted, both calipers had been pushed back into the sludge in the caliper piston bore and were seized, i got the other calipers out from the next set and both bleeder broke of, neither sets had been over hauled, i approched the fore said vendor for some assistance and never received any or had a reply from him ever again, so when ever i see him at the shows i make certain i stay by his stand and tell every body not to touch his crap, the engineer that i use told me he regularly refuse to pass some of his brakes as they generate less braking force than the brakes that they replace. buyer beware.

had a similar thing with a brake drum from him after getting stung with the price and shipping. the drum started to collapse on the splines. his answer was that i didnt do it up tight enough, my reply was if 100kg on the end of a 1m pipe wasnt tight enough then it was never going to be tight enough. he replaced the drum in the end with a blank but i had to get it drilled to fit it to the car.
will never use him again.

Just keep warning people. still owes me the replacement parts from years ago.

Well this got off topic real quick, sorry bout that allbones.

I have sherman adaptors on the front of mine and will post a pic soon as i take the front wheel off and you can make up your own mind.
bottom line is, bolt on they are technically illegal ( though there are ways around this )
psimitar- think the original wheel nuts hold them on

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Originally posted by nils psimitar- think the original wheel nuts hold them on

Sorry if this an old thread.

I had a set of Sherman's on my buggy. They worked VERY well. Never had dramas with leaks, bad bleeds or anything else. He was very helpful and gave me all the details for my engineer. They were engineered first go. Only work they ever needed in 7 years was a clean up and a new wheel bearing where some water got in through the speedo cab hole, which was my fault. Motor conversion plate was also good. Not lightweight racing gear, but solid, dependable well built stuff.

He even did me a deal on shipping when I bought stuff and sold me spares later on. He is old school and doesn't bear fools, but I found him good. I know everyone has unhappy customers, but I was very happy.

on the subject of studs and bolts. I just put 16 "/65/205 off a merc vito van on my 74 bay, they look great but always a but. Same stud pattern wrong offset.I f....d up .To stop rubbing on the front sway bar i need a 8mm spacer and the same on the back to stop rubbing on the inside.If i put 8mm spacers on front and back i just about lose all my thread. . 4 rims /4 tyres/ 4 sand blasting and painting + 4 white wall inserts already has cost a bucket .Can i use the spacers and lengthen the studs to get full nut .Thanks john

Thanks i think??? Before i bought the rims and tyres i took one to my tyre guy and i got him to put one on the front to check.I moved the steering wheel around and he checked the tyre and said all good to buy.Next time he might take a little longer before he says right to buy.For something that is illegal the auto shops sure sell a lot of spacers.