Date:         Sat, 4 Feb 2006 08:58:52 -0500
Reply-To:     Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Go Westy's 16" wheel offset ?
Comments: To: rsf <feller@CARBONCOW.COM>
In-Reply-To:  <200602040221419.SM01312@main>
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Golf, Jetta, Passat, wheels regularly get bent and distorted when used
on those cars. I can only imagine how they will hold up under a Vanagon.
Maybe the larger Vanagon tires will absorb impacts better but I think
the larger tires also increase loads placed on the wheels especially
when cornering.  
Somehow, using a wheel designed for a less than 1,000 pound application
with 23" tires on a 1,500 pound application and 26" or larger tires just
doesn’t seem like a good thing. 

You have been told.

Dennis


-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of rsf
Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 2:16 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Go Westy's 16" wheel offset ?

Plus I got to add...with $100+ shipping the gowesty/van-café rims are a
$700
project to Ohio! Like I said I got $340 in my NEW 2006 jetta rim
conversion...

Of course its just a matter of time before someone on the board tells me
since I don't know the load rating of the jetta rims how could I
possibly
trust them on my westy...

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
Of
John Reddick
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 11:20 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Go Westy's 16" wheel offset ?

I believe it is ET23.  By the time you go the cheap route and buy rims,
take
them to a machine shop to drill out the centers, buy spacers and longer
studs, Gowesties prices are a bargain.  The sliding door also works
which it
will not if you are off slightly.

John