New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

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New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 07:39 pm

After a long, bleak, hard search that ive bothered most of you with in one way or another, I finally have my shoddy, secondhand wheels. (general muted applause.)
If the hunt had been documented in movie form, it would have to have been filmed in black and white, by Roman Polanski to accompanyment of very sombre string music. Nobody would have watched it, and i would have wept at the end.

All comes to he who waits...........................then presses buttons on the internet, rings people up and shouts, pesters other internet forum users, does more pressing, phoning and shouting then sits down with a can and a furrowed brow and peptic ulcer...........................or so the old proverb goes.

And as if to prove it beyond reasonable doubt, my rims landed at 1730 today.
(less muted applause).

Here they are then, kerbed, peeling laquer in places. But theyve got it where it counts: solid, ready to go, on good rubber, with enough dish to eat a 340 key.
Howay! what more do you want for a ton thirty?
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by redline » 20 Jan 2009 08:04 pm

what you waiting for vnd , get them on :D
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 08:11 pm

Well mick.
Having just sat down all self-satisfied and smug, i was feeling all pleased with myself and happy...............untill i realised I havnt got any nuts. :oops:
Like, wheel nuts.
Ive got the other sort.
Big'uns an all.

Soooooooooooooooooooo. I ask you all. Erm, what'll hold them on please. Sleevenuts? surely stadards wont be any good.
They honestly had not crossed my mind AT ALL untill right now. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by redline » 20 Jan 2009 08:38 pm

not sure to be honest ,

If you had alloys on it already then wont the wheel nuts you had fit ?
I know you mustn't use the wheel nuts from steel wheels on alloys or vice versa

by the way , I'm not going to shorten your name anymore , it sounds like an STD sm53 sm53 sm81
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by sven360 » 20 Jan 2009 08:50 pm

Need alloy nuts,the ones off your steelies are incorrect-probs not a bad idea to get a set of lockers too.
£15 from Gearbox last time I got a set.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by sven360 » 20 Jan 2009 08:52 pm

pm Bilbo he might have some iirc :?
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 08:56 pm

You deff dont want a galloping case of vnd like redline.
Itches like a nightmare, and theres probably weeping.

Sven, has he got alloy nuts, or lockers? so i know what im asking for.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by sven360 » 20 Jan 2009 09:03 pm

volvosneverdie wrote:
Sven, has he got alloy nuts, or lockers? so i know what im asking for.

He might have nuts, think I've got a set of lockers but managed to snap one of the lugs off the key device still works and if I can find the code number you can order replacement if you want to-never bothered me so I didn't.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 09:12 pm

Cheers man. But too complicated.
I'll buy some new the moro.
Alloy nuts and locking nuts from the bay it is then.
Scoobys fit dont they?

Before I buy the wrong gear.............................................................

Sven, check your pm an all.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 09:45 pm

Just trawled ebay.
One fifty a nut?

what type of sick joke is that!!!?
sm2 sm2 sm2 sm2 sm2
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by Bazboy » 20 Jan 2009 09:50 pm

You cant use standard steel wheel bolts on alloys! What if they were standard volvo alloys? Cause ive been running mine with the cars old steelies wheel bolts for ages and it hasn't had any problems, i honestly didnt realize i would need new wheel bolts, some one please explain?

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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 10:11 pm

supose it depends on the wheels dan.
Mine have got like, tapered bits where the bolts go. (apologies for my retarded laymens terms)
So stock nuts wouldnt penetrate deep enough. I presume.
alloy nuts have a tapered base, and so would fit nice and snug. ie safe.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by 340GLT » 20 Jan 2009 10:49 pm

Rite well being a mark 2 it will almost certainly have the alloy spec wheel bolts as most did, if they have the alloy covers on them covering the hole in the end of the nut they are fine and for everyones information the alloy nuts are the same as standard ones with an alloy cover.
Oh and for locking nuts, choose impreza ones, same fitment MUCH easier to get hold of.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by volvosneverdie » 20 Jan 2009 10:55 pm

Well thanks for clearing that up adam.
Didnt have a nut lying round for reference.
I'd have gone out and bought 16 of the same tomorrow!
So double cheers.

Can you now please delete this thread so i dont look like so much of a retard?
many thanks again.
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Re: New wheels (fuggin FINALLY!)

Post by sven360 » 20 Jan 2009 11:18 pm

340GLT wrote:Rite well being a mark 2 it will almost certainly have the alloy spec wheel bolts as most did, if they have the alloy covers on them covering the hole in the end of the nut they are fine and for everyones information the alloy nuts are the same as standard ones with an alloy cover.
Oh and for locking nuts, choose impreza ones, same fitment MUCH easier to get hold of.
Adam
Ahh OK, presume the pitch and everything is right,thought it had summit to do with the steel being "stronger" than the alloy and probs caused by over tightening.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge :oops:
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