Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 10:12:52 -0700
Reply-To: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: 15" steel rims?
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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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Beverley Anne de Villiers April 20, 1930 - July 4, 2009
Jake
1984 Vanagon GL
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