Thanks to everyone that responded about the steel wheels. The Tiicos
are nice but expensive for 5 and out of stock anyway. I'm looking for
a good used set---el cheapo. BenT has some Passat steel wheels that
are 45 ET and says they're OK for the Syncro. Anyone out there
running ET as large as 45? The Ronal MBZ alloys I have on my syncro
now are 37 ET and they work fine.

Jeff

On Jan 10, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> Date:    Wed, 10 Jan 2007 09:51:37 -0500
> From:    Sam Walters <sam.cooks@VERIZON.NET>
> Subject: Re: 15" Steel Wheels
>
> Yoshi,
>
> I am running MB steel wheels on my Syncro and have been for several
> years.  I got mine from Tire Rack before they quit selling them to
> Vanagon owners and then later discontinued them altogether.
>
> They are ET37.  IIRC lots of people are running ET37's, both MB and VW
> from Passats, without spacers and without problems.
>
> I would put spacers on wheels like ET45, but haven't on the ET37.
> Some
> might disagree regarding the 37's.
>
> The ET31 would be better, closer to stock, etc.   Where did you get
> the
> ET31 C class MB steel wheels?
>
> Sam
>
> --
> Sam Walters
>
> Baltimore, MD