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Since I dont know that much about the subject, I see the burberry brigade walking out of halfwits with some ready made up alloys for their corsa. This leads me to suspect either standardisation in wheels or he ordered "that wheel for this corsa" and the shop go them in. Since the bolt holes look in the same place on both wheels and they are roughly the same overall diameter I was wondering. The only thing that does bother me is the lug nuts on the mr2's pepperpots are around 4" long and probably wont go in anything else. Got any advice on what wheels go on what car?
sadako said:
Since I dont know that much about the subject, I see the burberry brigade walking out of halfwits with some ready made up alloys for their corsa. This leads me to suspect either standardisation in wheels or he ordered "that wheel for this corsa" and the shop go them in. Since the bolt holes look in the same place on both wheels and they are roughly the same overall diameter I was wondering. The only thing that does bother me is the lug nuts on the mr2's pepperpots are around 4" long and probably wont go in anything else. Got any advice on what wheels go on what car?
There's more to it than bolt holes, you need the correct offsets (the distance from the centre of the wheel to the hub) and widths. If these are different your car will end up with a different track and the handling will be 'interesting' to say the least. I'd say the chances of them being the same are remote.
If it's just a temporary measure to move the car somewhere else you may get away with it.
>> Edited by Neil_H on Wednesday 9th February 10:49
Oh well in the meantime i spent some time today doing some purely aesthetical mods. Raided eastergate scrapyard for nice looking bits of trim and some new wiper arms. I now have prerevision air vents, and working on prerevision lights/wiper controls. Also replaced defective window switch, broken sidelight lenses with whole ones and removed that stupid coin holder thingie and replaced it with a flush fitting blanking plate
I assume we're talking Rover 200/400 and MR2 mk1?
The spec is as follows -
Rover
PCD 4-100
Offset 35 - 45
CB56.1
Toyota
PCD 4-100
Offset 35 - 42
CB54.1
If the Rover wheels are from the factory, there is no aftermarket way of reducing the centre bore from 56.1 to 54.1 and without that it will feel like your wheels are out of balance. You also may find problems with caliper clearance.
If the wheels are aftermarket, there will be a ring system to change the centre bore correctly and the wheels should swap over without a problem. Both the PCD and offset are within tolerance levels between the 2 vehicles.
The spec is as follows -
Rover
PCD 4-100
Offset 35 - 45
CB56.1
Toyota
PCD 4-100
Offset 35 - 42
CB54.1
If the Rover wheels are from the factory, there is no aftermarket way of reducing the centre bore from 56.1 to 54.1 and without that it will feel like your wheels are out of balance. You also may find problems with caliper clearance.
If the wheels are aftermarket, there will be a ring system to change the centre bore correctly and the wheels should swap over without a problem. Both the PCD and offset are within tolerance levels between the 2 vehicles.
I'm a wheel specialist by trade. Best bet for a space saver would be MK2 golf, the centre bore is wrong again (57.1) and you'll need a set of aftermarket 60 degree taper nuts but it would do to get you home in an emergency. Oh, make sure you use the correct wheel nuts if you change the rover ones over. If they're OE rover they'll have a special captive washer (both vehicle use 12x1.5 thread) whereas if they're aftermarket they'll probably be a fixed 60 degree taper. The MR2 standard alloys use a perculiar sleeve/washer set up (don't loose them, they're expensive to replace)
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