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[MJED]

Supeturismo 19" or not for my veccy C ?



What do you think...?

[Maverick]

Love em, always have but for some reason in the past they never did the right rim width or offset for the cars I had. I am a fussy ****** who has to have the offset and rim width as right as possible. But thats me.

***** to clean but a top wheel.

[GARY3306]

Supeturismo 19" or not for my veccy C ?



What do you think...?

NO, absolutely definately NOT, cause they have to go on mine LOL
Yes, go for it mate, them's gorgeous IMO.

[MJED]

Hi Mjed,

Gorgeous wheels mate, but with the V6 cdti take 19" wheels? I know u cant have them as a factory option. And have had conflicting reasons as to why not...

Just a thought mate .As id love a set of vx 19's like Cyb or Matt

Hi ABYSS, according to this url http://www.ozracing.com/oz2005/ita/a...=1438&lang=eng and I hope they are right, the answer is yes. Need to do some further investigation.

Mark

[MJED]

Well ill be interested in what u find out. My local dealer told me it was all to do with gear ratios....How true it is mind, i dont have a clue. I know ive checked out the Facelift Vectra, and thats the same.. 19's arent available for the V6

Maybe one of us should start a thread and ask the question....

I will let you know how I get on. I planned to fit 225 40 19 tyres giving a +0.81% difference to the 205 55 17 (makes the speedo read 70.57mph at actual 70mph) so I dont understand where the vx dealer thinks it would affect the gear ratios - someone please correct me if I'm talking daft again!

Mark

[AJA]

MJED - those are similar to my wheels mate. Check out my car in the Gallery to see what they will look like. Mine are 19's aswell.

[MJED]

MJED - those are similar to my wheels mate. Check out my car in the Gallery to see what they will look like. Mine are 19's aswell.

See what you mean AJA - look very nice ...think the car is the same colour too ...Silver Lightning?

Mark

[Graeme]

i think its more to do with emitions than gear ratio's from what i've been told. Ian c couldnt get them on his sure thats the reason vaux wont do them as an option

[MJED]

Got a price for the wheels £500 - now what rubber do I wrap them with ?
225.40.19 or 235.35.19?
Anyone use either of these?

Mark

[ian_c]

this is whats in the car and accessory price guide 6 dec 2004


not avalable on 3.0 cdti models, includes sports suspenion, 19in alloy wheels will affect the vehicle excise duty payable on 1.9cdti (150) models-see page 3 for details of CO 2 emission figurs167g/km in addition,due to increased CO 2 on certain other engines there will be a slight increase in benefit in kind charges for company car drives

so it must be to do co2 emissions (Euro 3) on the car tax band and car benifit charges for company cars

but i order 19in on my private car not company, but still said i cant have 19in only 18ins

and now with Euro4 coming in is that why all the deisel are a second down on last years models