In a message dated 11/11/99 9:39:30 AM Eastern Standard Time,
dmc@CYBURBAN.COM writes:

<< Tire rack sells 98+ Passat 15" steel wheels for $17.50 each, from the
 wholesale catalogue.  I haven't looked at the magazine ads, but I would
 think they'd be much over $20 retail.
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 Surely its unsafe to put a heavy vehicle like the Vanagon on wheels
 designed for something as light as a Passat??
  >>

ive compared the two. construction is the same, and so is metal thickness.
the '98 up passat wheel is basically the same exact wheel as the audi turbo
wheel, which ive run w/o any probs on a vanagon
chris