As you probably are all aware with my constant spamming on here ... i am in the market for rims... and am yet to decide.
I see some nice chromies 10 inch by 15's for sale in north qld on ebay..
BUT these guys on this forum, with some rediculously insane offroad vee dubs rekon that its fine to run 235 70 15s on stock rims, 700 x15s on stock
rims and is in the title, 33 x 900???
900?!
I dunno bout that but hte others even... can you really run such wide tyres on such skinny stock rims?
They claim cause the vw is light... so it don't make a difference... In the pictures the tyres don't appear to balloon much. (you rekon they would
though)
It seems a bit 'out there' so thought i would bring it here and get hte experts opinion
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posted on October 21st, 2009 at 11:48 AM
it dont matter what they say,its the legalities of what is going to happen if you have an accident etc......
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posted on October 21st, 2009 at 11:51 AM
Cheers Paul
Ah. so it is illegal as well!
i got 195's on my daily driver rim that was (according to factory) made to accomodate 185's.
does that mean i could be in serious crud if i have a brang?
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posted on October 21st, 2009 at 12:55 PM
here we go..
I solved my own mystery:
"Tyres
The maximum tyre width for a car or car derivative must
not be more than 1.3 times the vehicle manufacturer’s
widest optional tyre.
However, for an off-road passenger vehicle fitted with
front and rear beam axles, the maximum tyre width
must not be more than 1.5 times the vehicle
manufacturer’s widest optional tyre.
The nominal width of the narrowest tyre fitted to a
vehicle must not be less than 70 per cent of the nominal
width of the largest tyre fitted and never less than the
vehicle manufacturer’s narrowest optional tyre as
indicated on the manufacturer’s tyre placard."
BUT!!! my car is 1969... isn't that 'pre-adrs' and therefore doesn't have to comply? Just like how i can have bonnet pins... but if it was post 71
then i couldn't???
!!!
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posted on October 21st, 2009 at 06:52 PM
Chris ,
With all the other nice work you have put into this car stop mucking around and just buy some brand new performance alloy wheels .
Not only will it finish the car off nice , they are not as expensive as you may think @ only approx $120 to $140 per rim which in the greater picture
is not all that much .
Yes i realise you are a student and all but think of it this way of all the running around etc was added up looking for a secondhand set you are
probabley not going to save much at all and as said above the new wheels will finish of what will be a nice build .
Just my two cents .
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posted on October 21st, 2009 at 08:31 PM
Thanks Andrew. your very right, i gotta stop being so tight. This summer break work will be giving me a heap more hrs (peak season) so there will be a
heap more dosh coming in.
Some wide chromies would be nice.
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New engine in process: 94mm p&bs, 74mm C/w chomol Crank, 35.5x39 SP heads, turbo. Wierd combo, hopeful torque monsta!
AussieveedubbersTech Talk "There is one person on some VW forum running 33x900 15s on 4.5" wide rim" END...
posted on October 21st, 2009 at 08:38 AM
