Winter Planning

**Gortreck** · 17th July 2011, 20:53

Hi folks

Planning for the winter and was wondering if anyone knew where i could pick up a couple of steel wheels for the vec c for a reasonable price? Not worried about tyres on them as i want to get snow tyres put on them. Two should suffice as they only need to be on the drive wheels i know

Cheers
Tony

**Chris SRi** · 18th July 2011, 07:31

Scrappers would be best bet or ebay. Unless they're local though, delivery would be expensive.

Some off an Astra would maybe fit? Might be easier to source than Vectra ones.

**Exclusive BV** · 18th July 2011, 07:56

sometimes on ebay you will find a couple of vx structure wheels, they look like alloys with the trims on

**chrisvectra** · 18th July 2011, 08:10

winter planning in july???

**Gortreck** · 18th July 2011, 08:32

Originally Posted by chrisvectra

winter planning in july???

Yeap, much cheaper if you can get the bits now before the prices get thrown through the roof because of demand

I guess a look at the local scrap yards could yield some good results, thanks for the tip

Cheers
Tony

**Exclusive BV** · 18th July 2011, 13:02

he's right, winter is the best time to buy a lawn mower

**Ziggy** · 18th July 2011, 13:08

PLease dont run with just 2 winter tyres. It will end in tears

**triple595** · 18th July 2011, 13:17

i bought a full set of 16's for mine for 30 quid with trims, just need to get me arse into gear and sort some tyres for them

spoons · 18th July 2011, 13:34

I just got my winter tyres sorted as per this thread here

http://www.vectra-c.com/forum/showth...t=winter+tyres

Goodyear UltraGrip 7+ and had to get them shipped over from Germany.

I wont run the VXR in the snow, but the Fiat 500 will be run through winter on these UltraGrip 7+ tyres, so I'm very interested to see how they get on.

Knowing my Fiat uses the Ford Ka platform I hunted around for some steel wheels and found a company who takes them off Ford Ka's to upgrade them to alloys.

They sold me a set of 4 brand new 14" steels for £15 each plus £15 shipping next day delivery. So £75 for a brand new set of 4 rims.

spoons · 18th July 2011, 13:36

Originally Posted by s_zigmond

PLease dont run with just 2 winter tyres. It will end in tears

^^^^ Agreed

You must put 4 winter tyres on as they will have way more cornering grip than the standard tyres. Recipe for disaster if you mix the grip levels on corners