The sedan has been back home for a few months now stored up on the hoist. Have been thinking about what am I going to do with it? I always wanted mag wheels / bigger tyres on the car when I first had it as an apprentice, however my Dad talked me out of it
So I have only ever had standard radial tyres (13” x 185 x 70 profile) on the 4.5” stock rims.
Looking at the many cars on the forum has been a great way to work out my preferences. I love the look of this Ute with the spitfire style mags.
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Found a set on fleabay (13” x 5.5”) but a bit pricey at $1250 plus freight. Found a set of 14” jellybeans for Holden (5 stud) that looked good in S.A for the right price and thought yep all good
Not knowing much about wheels thought maybe I should ring Clay to check? Hmmmmm…… good thing I did cause they turned out to be HQ pattern so no good
Clay put me onto a local bloke who deals in wheels, couple suburbs away. He has lots of wheels and he found me a set of Magnum jellybeans as per the picture, 13” x 7”.
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Nice deep dish and he would polish them up like new, fit 205 x 60 tyres. Was just about to hand over some cash and he says you’ll need to roll guards for the tyres to clear ah crap……… no thanks.
So he digs around and finds a set of 14” x 6” HK /HT jelly beans with similar backspace to the standard steel rims. We chucked one rim on the Ute and it clears the steering & suspension on full lock. So have gone with a set of these to be fitted with 205 x 60 series tyres. See pic for test fit.
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Hopefully they will be ready in a couple weeks after he skims the rim edge, polishes them, paints the centres and fits / balances the tyres. I might chuck them on the Ute to see what they look like!
Stephen
