Need 14inch wheel 91 90 20v sedan

[Doyt W. Echelberger]

That is essentially what I told him, Larry. Plus, if he decides to run it 
anyhow to put it on a rear hub and take it very easy and stay off the rough 
roads. The epoxy is just to hold the air.  I spent an hour on the net 
trying to find him a wheel.  Found 3, but nothing can happen until Monday 
when the shops open, and Wednesday is the earliest any UPS can deliver to 
him. Incidently, asking prices are about 160 per wheel. Kar in Minn. was 
open and did talk to me.

I gave his name and phone number to the vendors, mostly using their voice 
mail (everything but Kar was closed Saturday.) They will call him (or not) 
on Monday.

I looked up the wheel specs for him and he wrote them down.

So, Mike is a big boy now and makes his own decisions.

I think I'd run on the donut spare rather than risk the split aluminum rim. 
And I really hate those donuts.  I'm carrying a full size spare in my 87 5ktq.

Doyt
Contact me <doyt at nwonline.net>  or call Mike Mellon direct at 419-499-4098, 
Milan, OH, if you have such a wheel for sale, or anything near it. 14x6 
108mm4lug, 45mm offset

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At 05:00 PM 3/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Split aluminum is VERY VERY bad and unsafe. It is not a material, in this
>state, that will handle much shock loading (such as that dished out by
>normal surface streets!). Epoxy will NOT help making this rim safe, even
>temporarily, it'll only help the rim hold air until the crack quite
>quickly enlarges. He'd be a whole lot safer to even temporarily get an
>appropriate sized steel rim until he comes across his injured BBS rim's
>replacement.
>
>LL - NY
>
>
>
>On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 11:29:55 -0500 "Doyt W. Echelberger"
><Doyt at nwonline.net> writes:
> >Friend needs stock wheel for 1991 model 90 quattro 20 valve. One of
> >his
> >rims developed a small split and it is leaking air.  We are in
> >northern
> >Ohio midway between Cleveland and Toledo.
> >
> >He is fixing the leak with epoxy and running the wheel on the rear
> >axle
> >since the car is mission critical to getting to work.  Seems like a
> >risky
> >move to me.
> >
> >The wheel is a stock 14 x 6 BBS Mesh with a 45 mm offset.
> >
> >Contact me by email <doyt at nwonline.net>  asap  or call Mike direct at
> >
> >419-499-4098.
> >
> >
> >Doyt Echelberger
> >
> >Written to help Mike Mellon, Milan Ohio