Looking for 4kq steel wheels

Huw Powell audi at mediaone.net
Fri Nov 9 16:17:13 EST 2001


> >Heck, you could be right, I don't have any around right now to go
> >check.  But I did buy some 15" ronals that were supposedly on a type 43
> >diesel or something on ebay, should have them next week sometime.  Those
> >won't answer any of this question, of course!
> >
> >have you ever seen any of those weird ugly 9 spoke alloys on a 4kq or
> >late coupe?  I'm racking my brains to see if I can remember any right
> >now...
>
> You mean those bronze wheels with 'webbed' spokes on early 4000s and 5000s?
> I've seen those on an early FWD type 44 once. Were those 4x100 or 4x108?

I remember them as silver, but,yes, they had those weird "webs", painted
black.

Like this:

http://www.humanspeakers.com/cgi-bin/humanspeakers/audi_img.pl?image=80-5ks.jpg&desc=1980%20Audi%205000S

btw, the consensus, now that I have stopped guessing wildly, seems to be
clear - the 4 lug type 43's had 4 x 108.

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Huw Powell

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