Where to get original GTV wheels, and fitting.

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Happy wife, happy life...

Besides, as I said, you've got 12 months to test drive their display QV.

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Apologies for poor photo quality. My phone camera is poop. Have to say the Veloce, in black with red leather interior, is the cats pyjamas.

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Happy wife, happy life...

Besides, as I said, you've got 12 months to test drive their display QV.

Exactly.

As the saying goes

"Happy wife....no Ferrari."

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ok new tyres getting fitted to the 16"s this friday.

Will swap wheels over this weekend.

What do you think would be a fair price for the 5 spoke 17s with current tyres?

Keeping in mind, rear tyres are worn (still legal) and produce road noise.
There's a small ding in 1 which I have been quoted $250+GST to fix including full respray which they insisted would be required due to the use of heat to take the bend out.

Reminder pic here:
http://i65.tinypic.com/oqvtz4.jpg

Pic of the ding (up near the valve, you can see the line is not true around the edge of the circle if you look close.
http://oi67.tinypic.com/2exar10.jpg

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Does the ding cause any shuddering, or impact driving/handling in any noticeable way?

If not, I'd just advertise them as is in good roadworthy nick, and start around $600 with existing tyres, and negotiate from there. If they were immaculate you could ask for more, but looking at gumtree, 2ND hand wheels have to be pretty special to get nearer to $1K.

Was that quote from alliance? They charged me less than $100 to fix mine, and they had to weld up a great big crack in the rim. It was inner rim though, so not visible and I needed no respray etc.

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The ding + the tyres cause a "Dugga dugga dugga" but no steering vibration (given it's on the rear on my car)

That $250+ GST quote was from Alliance Rim Repair 

So I was thinking more of ~$400 neg "as is".

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If they are making a noise, yep $400 is probably more like it. But to get that, you'll have to start a bit higher.

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If they are making a noise, yep $400 is probably more like it. But to get that, you'll have to start a bit higher.

Cool cheers.

Not after heaps or wanting to dream. Just sell them off at a fair price and offset some of the cost of my RE003's

If I actually liked these wheels, I'd have paid for the fix, but I'm really not a fan.

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BTW - if you haven't already, you may want to have a look at the post "Hub Centre Bore and wheel hub size" in General section. One of the Perth guys is changing wheels and is double checking issues he might have. Just in case you have any issues fitting the new wheels to your GTV.

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BTW - if you haven't already, you may want to have a look at the post "Hub Centre Bore and wheel hub size" in General section. One of the Perth guys is changing wheels and is double checking issues he might have. Just in case you have any issues fitting the new wheels to your GTV.

Thanks once again.

The rims I got from john are I'm pretty sure 916 GTV Ph2 wheels, and my car is a ph2 916.

Never the less, it had niggled me that perhaps I should test fit one before getting the tyres on.

So after reading your comment and the thread, I did just that.

The 17s I have now have a plastic hubcentric ring for fitment I discovered. Remove that, and the 16s from John fit snug as a bug.

So new tyres tomorrow then a saturday of more garden digging and wheel fitment.

I do need to double check the bolt lengths before fitting the wheels, but at least I know the wheels fit so good for the new rubber.

Interestingly, is it normal for the rear wheel spindle to rotate free of the disk, when all 5 bolts are removed? Or am I missing a locking screw or something?

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Hmm, I don't actually know. Is it the same on both rears? If so, I guess it would be normal. Maybe post the question on the 916/932 section. Someone will answer soon enough.

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Hmm, I don't actually know. Is it the same on both rears? If so, I guess it would be normal. Maybe post the question on the 916/932 section. Someone will answer soon enough.

Only tested 1 corner tonight as it was dark and I just wanted to make sure they fit so I'll know more on the weekend.

At the end of the day, its no biggie as once you line the holes up, the 5 bolts hold them together anyway.

Was just odd as because of the setup, the holes can get out of line which was a pain and caught me out lol.

Never come across anything like it.  But meh, most of the cars I've played with have studs not bolts which make life easier (unless you snap one)

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Ah here ha go....

Found this photo on the interwebs.
http://www.alfaworkshop.co.uk/images/260-2-800.jpg



Mine does NOT have that locating lug (I just names it that) you can see in the top of the hub face, hence why the hub and disk can rotate independent of each other when the bolts are out.

Probably taken out to fit the aftermarket wheels I would assume.

I may get a set as will make mounting the wheels SO much easier.

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Good idea. I agree, fitting is easier with studs. Does the hub face have a hole in it where the locating lug would go? If not, (and back to the original topic of this thread!) you could pull a factory hub off a wreck.

Its interesting though - I never really looked at my hubs when I last had the wheels off.

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Good idea. I agree, fitting is easier with studs. Does the hub face have a hole in it where the locating lug would go? If not, (and back to the original topic of this thread!) you could pull a factory hub off a wreck.

Its interesting though - I never really looked at my hubs when I last had the wheels off.

Yep there is a hole there with nothing in it. Spotted that in the darkness last night but wasn't sure if it was a drainage hole or something.
I've been spending too much time doing a bearing job on the rear drum of my 74 Beetle I think