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r_towle Fri May 02, 2008 6:02 pm

Did anyone, or does anyone now, make 16 or 17 inch wide five steel wheels?
Aftermarket is fine, just trying to find a vendor that sells 17 inch wheels.


Rich

glutamodo Sat May 03, 2008 1:43 pm

The only such wheels I've ever heard of, steel that is, are the stock 16" ones that VW used in the splitwindow era. But those rims were also very very skinny, not suitable to for any modern low profile 16" tire.

-Andy

r_towle Mon May 05, 2008 5:13 am

How about 16 or 17 inch porsche 5 lug bolt patterned steel wheels?
Same pattern as the VW wheel with the oval holes along the outer edge of the middle section?

Rich

luckystiff Mon May 05, 2008 9:16 am

you could always have stock centers welded into 16 or 17 inch hoops. happens fairly often in the hotrod world....ken....

Maimas13 Mon May 05, 2008 10:40 pm

i know that some vanagon sycro's had the "16" package and came with 16 in steel wheels but that would be the 5x112 bolt pattern of the newer v dubs

Nevada51 Tue May 06, 2008 4:39 am

Porsche made 16 inch rims for Pre-A 356's but you need to donate a kidney to buy a set and you can't buy repros. They're very skinny also, and thus difficult to buy radial tires for



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