Date:         Sun, 19 Sep 2004 10:26:36 -0700
Reply-To:     Vince S <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Vince S <gipsyflies@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: GoWesty 16" Wheels
Comments: To: BenT <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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"Turned out to be incorrectly drilled lugholes. GW replaced ASAP w/o
additional cost."

That speaks volumes for quality. Do they drill them with hand drill or
drill press? ;-)



- Vince

http://gipsyflies.home.comcast.net
1989 Vanagon GL Camper
1993 Mazda Miata (for sale)
1996 Land Rover Discovery
2005 Mini Cooper S




-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of BenT
Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 10:18 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: GoWesty 16" Wheels


Mike,

You can fit larger wheels if you go to lower aspect ratio tires. If you
are willing to ride on O-rings for tires, you can use up to 19" wheels.
I have 17" X 7" wheels in the front unmodified end of my 84 GL. The
rears are sporting mighty proud 17" X 9 " Porsche Cup 2 wheels.

BTW, IIRC Go Westy's wheels are NOT modified Mercedes alloys. They are
custom cats for GW in China to the Ronal pattern commonly known as the
Mercedes 8-hole wheel. If you folks will recall some months ago, a
fellow listee had wobbling problems with one of these wheels. Turned out
to be incorrectly drilled lugholes. GW replaced ASAP w/o additional
cost.

BenT Weehl http://members.aol.com/bentbtstr8/myhomepage/index.html

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004 21:06:46 -0700, Mike Miller <mwmiller@cwnet.com>
wrote:
> Thought you couldn't get 16" Wheels on the front without changing the
> control arms [or something like that]?
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
> On 9/18/04 8:36 PM, "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET> wrote:
>
> > ust returned home from a week long trip up and down Highway 1 in
> > California. The first thing I did before tackling the dangerous
> > twisty monster that is the 1 north of San Luis Obispo was stop in at

> > GoWesty in Los Osos to ditch those factory 14" steel wheels with
> > unbalanced, decaying cheap crap tires (PO was a college student-- no

> > money) and have a set of 16" ones with good Michelins put on. All I
> > can say is "wow". This is the best $1100 I've spent on the beast.
> > Before, it handled like a unicycle with a bent wheel rim. The
> > slightest wind, or groove in the pavement, or even going over 60mph
> > required eternal vigilance at the steering wheel, correcting,
> > re-correcting, and re-re-correcting as the dang thing wandered all
> > over the road. After the 16's though, it handles like a dream. I
> > can't recommend this upgrade highly enough.  Now the wife and I
> > actually fight over who gets to drive!
> >
> > http://www.gowesty.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Product_Co
> > de=GVW-802
> > 7&Category_Code=
> >
> > John Bange
> > '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>