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Re: Wheel Options!



In a message dated 96-04-01 21:41:54 EST, you write:

>  No fitment for the Borbet thype "C"?! I don't think so! I know that 
>Borbet makes these for the 5x112 bolt pattern. Try this: next time you 
>call, ask for fitments on ANY 80's MB. This is how I found my MOMO 
>"Mirage" wheels. Discount Tire told me that they had nothing for the Audi's 
>in that wheel. So I happily hung up and called back, not 1 minute later 
>and asked for MBenz fitments and low and behold they had it. They were 
>16x7.5 with a +35mm offset. Just to put the cherry on top, they had been 
>discontinued and they were scratch and dent. $99 a rim later, they were 
>mine. $300 wheels for $99 was great and I couldn't find one thing wrong 
>with them except for the paint had run on ONE of the wheels on the inside 
>of it. 

Mike Spiers is slowly vesting in this app for his 5ktq coffee table......  IF
anyone with a non flared 5ktq thinks a 215 tire in a 16 or 17 will fit....
 Let me assure you that the 16X7.5 BBS wheels I have with 205/55 sp8k's DID
NOT FIT without rubbing the fender, and Mike's 215/45 17X7.5 "C"s didn't
either....

Hello

Scott