Having compared in my own hands the steel 15" Passat wheel with the steel 15" Vanagon wheel from VW South Africa I can assure you that the Vanagon wheel is made of much thicker steel and weighs quite a bit more. I doubt that the Passat wheel would fail in any way under normal use and I know people who have used them and are still using them on Westys. I don't see any way to avoid the fact that the Passat wheel would suffer damage more easily than the Vanagon one. I refer only to steel wheels in this regard. I have had poor experiences with the 14" alloy Vanagon wheels and know plenty of other Syncro owners who have bent, cracked, and/or chiped those Vanagon 14" alloys. In contrast the 15" Audi 5000 Turbo alloys seem much stronger in my experience and the experiences of others. Mark
rsf wrote: >I would guess that the failure rate on those vehicles mentioned is not >different then the failure rate of the factory 14" alloy rims. I just cannot >find comments in the board achieves to prove any different. > >Plus neither the gowesty/van-café rims have load rating either so it's pure >guessing that they are major differences between the rims. (of course the >Rhein are vw recommednd is SA) You are just drawing conclusions that >something is made considerably less durable only because it's used on a >lighter vehicle. Fair assumption that designs are created at the lowest >possible cost to fill the void but I'm pretty sure rim manufactures create >to a higher standard (then door handle manufactures) so they can cross >platform their product........................ > > |
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