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New wheels for my L

Post by julian » Wed Jul 25, 2007 6:45 pm

Hi all,
Need some advice on aesthetics.
Currently have white 14" speedy wheels on a 2" lifted white L series. Pretty common look. Have come across a set of alloys as seen here...
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They are the same size but want a few opinions as to what others think. I need new tyres soon anyway and after plenty of elbow grease to polish them they might look ok...

Ignore the dent, it looks worse than it is and would be the spare.
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Post by theclick » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:02 pm

i reccon they will look good mate, suits the era of the car.

the placing of the studs on the wheel looks a bit funny though for some reason

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Post by julian » Thu Jul 26, 2007 3:29 pm

Yeh, 4 stud- 5 spoke mags look a bit weird but on the car I imagine they would look ok.
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Post by Rabbitoh » Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:52 pm

julian wrote:Hi all,
Need some advice on aesthetics.
Currently have white 14" speedy wheels on a 2" lifted white L series. Pretty common look. Have come across a set of alloys as seen here...
Image

They are the same size but want a few opinions as to what others think. I need new tyres soon anyway and after plenty of elbow grease to polish them they might look ok...

Ignore the dent, it looks worse than it is and would be the spare.
WOW, they are really rare. As the other guys said they should look OK. Where did you come across those?

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Post by julian » Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:44 pm

They are cheviot 14" mags that came off a peugeot 505 wagon and sat in a family members shed for years. You say they are rare, out of interest how do you know? You familiar with this wheel rabbitoh?
They will need about 5mm drilled out just in from each stud hole on the reverse side to make room for the small raised sections on my hubs (RX brakes all round) but apart from that they just need tyres. Looks like a go-er I reckon.
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Post by Rabbitoh » Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:53 pm

julian wrote:They are cheviot 14" mags that came off a peugeot 505 wagon and sat in a family members shed for years. You say they are rare, out of interest how do you know? You familiar with this wheel rabbitoh?
They will need about 5mm drilled out just in from each stud hole on the reverse side to make room for the small raised sections on my hubs (RX brakes all round) but apart from that they just need tyres. Looks like a go-er I reckon.
All alloy wheels with the 4 X 140 stud pattern are rare these days , I saw the exact same wheel on an American Subaru website. I will post the address after I look it up, have to do a search first.

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Post by Rabbitoh » Thu Jul 26, 2007 6:14 pm

Rabbitoh wrote:All alloy wheels with the 4 X 140 stud pattern are rare these days , I saw the exact same wheel on an American Subaru website. I will post the address after I look it up, have to do a search first.
Found the page, however cannot see that specific wheel.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/80s/wheels2/wheels.html

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Post by julian » Sat Aug 18, 2007 5:16 pm

Found the site you must have been referring to:

http://www.geocities.com/davemcbean/wheeltypes.html

A few more alloy wheel types.
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Post by sven » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:11 pm

I reckon they look great - go for it.

I searched for ever when i was running sunnies for an alternative - i finally went to Bridgestone to buy the 'modular' style wheel, only to find they had ceased production of the 4x140 pattern a few months before...they do suit the era - goodluck
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