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Subject:Re: 15" steel rims?
From:Jake de Villiers
Date:Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:12:52 -0700

The GoWesty wheels are made from Pontiac rim outers and Vanagon centres.
They will take a VW hubcap, either flat or domed.

They will NOT fit bigger brakes, if that's a consideration for you.

There's a guy in Tsawwassen with them and they look great!  I have a photo
somewhere around here...

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Bob Stevens <mtbiker62@gmail.com> wrote:

> GW doesn't have them in stock either, but at least you have another
> option.I
> know 2 people with these on their vans, both Syncro's, and they swear by
> them.
> Robust, good looking, functional, and as you said, gives them more tire
> options.
> One runs Hakka's, the other BFG's.
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_category.php?id=143
>
> By the way, both these guys have them in black, not the silver color.
> Look good with chrome nuts.
>
> bob
>
> It'd be
> > the right time to swap to some 15" rims, both for a little increased
> ground
> > clearance and for the additional tire options available in 15".  I am not
> > interested in alloy wheels, not for a vehicle I take off road or onto
> > really
> > crappy roads...I have bent and broken alloy wheels and been left with no
> > spare in dicey situations..so it's steel for me.  I have, on two
> occasions,
> >  'hammered-out' bent steel rims, got them back into shape well enough
> > to continue on some remote Mexico and desert trips..
> >  The only sure source I see, upon 'cursorial lookage' is Van Cafe and
> they
> > are 'out of stock' and also a hundred bucks each  (I didn't even consider
> > the freight cost..)...a bit much for plain steel wheels on my budget.
>  Has
> > anyone ever found any other steel wheels in 15" size that will work on a
> > 2wd
> > Vanagon without machine work or extra long studs..  Or does anyone have
> any
> > "steelies" left from an "upgrade" FS within a few hundred miles of PDX
> > (Portland, Or.)?...
> >  I guess I could start with the Samba..Knowing what other vehicles might
> > have similar offsets to the Vanagons 14" stocker rims might be a good
> help,
> > then I could also scour the junkyards, etc..
> >  Thanks,  Don Hanson
> >
>

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Jake

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