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Subject:Re: 15 inch wheels
From:Keith Adams
Date:Wed, 18 Oct 2000 08:10:27 -0600

David,

What are these steel wheels you are getting?

I'm not really into spending a bunch on alloys for my van, but rather I just
want plain vanilla steel 15" rims.  What alternatives are there?  Passat?
Audi?  Eurovan?  Benz?  ???  Anyone?  Bueller?

Somehow, I've always just been into the plain black steel rims, no hubcaps, and
chrome lugnuts.  Maybe it comes from my teenage obsession with a 440-6 pack Road
Runner with the black fiberglass hood!  ;-)

Keith Adams
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1986 Vanagon GL Westfalia

> The big problem that you are looking at is finding a 15 or 16" wheel with
> the correct offset.  I am getting some 15s in with an offset of 37mm which
> is 2mm more than the factory 16" (35mm) and they are 6" wide - should fit
> like a glove!