[urq] body-colored Fuchs wheels?

[Louis-Alain Richard]

Steve is right; Fuchs were indeed available in Pearl white (0A9) but only for the 86-88 5000TQ from Jan 86 to Feb. 87. Other application for these is 82-87 urQ and 84-88 5KT and color is always Zermatt (Y7Y).

Source: TFA

LA

 -----Original Message-----
From: 	urq-admin at audifans.com [mailto:urq-admin at audifans.com]  On Behalf Of Buchholz, Steven
Sent:	25 février, 2003 17:25
To:	urq at audifans.com
Subject:	RE: [urq] body-colored Fuchs wheels?

... the set I have on my car is Zermatt Silver, and I think they look very
good against the Red color.  From what I've seen on the videos the Fuchs
weels on the rally cars were all painted solid white.  One of the cars I
checked out before buying my car was a completely white car ... even the
spoiler was painted white (which didn't look to be a factory finish as far
as I can tell).  I doubt this car had the Fuchs, they were probably the
Ronals ... but to my taste the completely white car didn't do too much for
me ...

... as to authenticity ... the first place I'd look is TFA ... I know that
the Fuchs wheels were not available in every body color, but to be honest I
don't recall if white painted variants were listed there or not ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)
 >
 >  I'm tempted by a set of Fuchs wheels offered for sale for
 >  an urq. I understand that these were offered as an option
 >  on the urq, and were often used for rally use?
 >
 >  Can anyone comment (positive or negative) on the
 >  authenticity or appearance of body-colored Fuchs wheels on
 >  a white urq?
 >
 >  If you have seen such, were they completely painted, or
 >  were the holes rimmed with 1/4" of alloy visible, as I
 >  recall having seen on some Porches of the period?
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