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CoastalBug
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 Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 5:52 pm Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| Bobs67vwagen wrote: |
| Looking better every day Chris. Did you happen to notice the wheels on the press photo that Rome posted? Nice huh? |
Yeah I think that’s what I’m gonna do. Black inner, white outer just like original. I do want wider tires though!
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OldSchoolVW's 
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| Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2025 10:10 pm Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| CoastalBug wrote: |
| I do want wider tires though! |
How wide are your wheels? 4"? 4 1/2"? 5"? Should be stamped on the wheel. Some original wheels were 4" ... which would really limit how wide you could go. 
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CoastalBug
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 1:27 pm Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| OldSchoolVW's wrote: |
How wide are your wheels? 4"? 4 1/2"? 5"? Should be stamped on the wheel. Some original wheels were 4" ... which would really limit how wide you could go. |
Not sure. I'm hoping to start wire wheeling them soon to get the rust off.
I'm not looking for extremely wide, just something with a little more area on the road and to fill the wheel wells a little more.
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Bobs67vwagen
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:28 pm Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| Are the tires on the car now 165-80R-15? The width of the wheel can usually be found on the inner hub of the wheels near the lug nuts.. it will say 4jx15, or 4 1/2 jx15. . Bob |
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CoastalBug
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| Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 4:30 pm Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| Bobs67vwagen wrote: |
| Are the tires on the car now 165-80R-15? The width of the wheel can usually be found on the inner hub of the wheels near the lug nuts.. it will say 4jx15, or 4 1/2 jx15. . Bob |
yes they are bob.
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Bobs67vwagen
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| Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2025 6:42 am Post subject: Re: “Ella’s” new beginning… |
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| Chris I asked about tire size because the 165s are close to what the car came with originally. Back then they were either 560-15 or 600-15 and were bias ply tires. When the 67s were new with the wider track transaxle( which your 68 also has ) they made the rear fender a little wider to accomodate that. If you go to a wider tire you may create some new issues such as fender scraping and tire scraping on turns. Do some reading on this before making the changes to avoid problems. Bob |
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