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26-12-09, 06:19 PM | #1 | |
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90 20v Sport Speedlines
My new Audi wears its original 15" wheels & there are also 4 spares with it too - including the one in the boot.
I've never liked this design of wheel, in that it looks fussy & old fashioned. But... I'm a stickler for originality, so what should I do? I don't essentially want to mess with the ingredients that make this car reasonably special. I like the plain Ronals on other Audi 90's, but were these ever fitted to the Sport? The tyres are 205/50R15's, should they be 60 section tyres? Can these wheels be easily & successfully refurbished..? They've been badly painted before (including painting over the chrome 'bolts') & this paint is now flaking off, they're corroded & a couple of tyres need changed too. They would need dipped... would this knacker the chrome effect bolts? So many questions !
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26-12-09, 06:35 PM | #2 |
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26-12-09, 06:53 PM | #3 |
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He may be delayed, he could be deciding which trainers to wear and getting them out of their cryogenic safety deposit box
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26-12-09, 07:00 PM | #4 |
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Pain in the arse to refurb but they do look good on a 90.
You'll have to remove all the bolts and there are 30 per wheel. And you'll be lucky if you're able to reuse any of them! You can still buy them but at 40p a bolt, refurbing them becomes expensive. |
26-12-09, 07:32 PM | #5 |
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They are indeed a pain to refurb, I'm part way through refurbing a set, so far I've knocked the heads off the fake bolts with a wood chisel (and intend to glue them back in place) paint stripped and wire brushed back to bare alloy, then sanded the polished rim to remove the corrosion. I can't decide on painting the whole wheel or just the inner and have to keep polishing the rim every month as there is no lacquer product that will stick to a polished alloy surface, which is why they corrode in the first place
It took about 15 hours to get to this point and if I had gone out to work instead, I could have earned the money to pay someone else to strip off the paint. |
26-12-09, 07:48 PM | #6 |
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They do look so much better with a polished rim though, mine are painted but I'm determined to get them back polished during next year. Going to get a set of Series 4 tenspokes to put on the car whilst I do them.
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27-12-09, 06:48 AM | #7 |
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27-12-09, 12:07 PM | #8 |
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Mmm... certainly food for thought. Given that the o/s/f tyre has lost 30lbs of pressure in a week and two sidewalls are in a poor state from having been left deflated, I'll need to do something about this situation pretty sharpish.
The Speedlines look good in there 'as new' spec; a quick refurb without the shiny rim & bolts I think would look a bit rubbish. I'm siding for the 15" Ronal Aeros tbh (particularly as they were available with them outside of the UK)... it'll be finding a decent set that might prove difficult. I've got a spare set of 10-spoke Audi 80 wheels that I may chuck on in the meantime & that'll surely push me to do something - look okay on an Audi 80 or Coupe, but on anything else they don't look good imo!
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