RS Alloy - Brooklyn ??
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My mate up the road has just 'splashed out' on a 15 year old Escort van to replace his 23 year old Maestro which has finally got too expensive to repair. He even has electric windows now.
More importantly the vehicle has some RS alloys fitted - the two rears look very good and the fronts only have minimal kerbing damage. However the wheels want to come off as the tyres have previously rubbed the inner wheel arch when the van has been carrying weight.
Having searched PH I found this add - http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1827200.htm
Is this wheel a Brooklyn - can't see anything else on the web about them. My mates are actually only 14 inch rims - so presumably of less appeal ?
Any idea about the best place to advertise them, apart from here of course.
More importantly the vehicle has some RS alloys fitted - the two rears look very good and the fronts only have minimal kerbing damage. However the wheels want to come off as the tyres have previously rubbed the inner wheel arch when the van has been carrying weight.
Having searched PH I found this add - http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/1827200.htm
Is this wheel a Brooklyn - can't see anything else on the web about them. My mates are actually only 14 inch rims - so presumably of less appeal ?
Any idea about the best place to advertise them, apart from here of course.
If they are 14" & they are similar to the picture then they would 7 spoke RS alloys as fitted to the XR4x4 & optional on other models.
The 15" wheel as fitted to the Capri 280 is known as the 'brooklands' alloy not Brooklyn!
These differed to the 15" RS alloy in having 'Ford' centre caps apposed to 'RS' centre caps.
Also the RS alloys had a square recess surrounding the valve & the Brookland wheel had simply a round hole.
RS 7 spoke alloys were also available in 13" for the Fiesta as well!
To be honest, the 14" RS alloy are not worth a great deal, you may be lucky & get £80 for them.
If they were gen, mint 15" brooklands you would be looking at maybe £300-500!
HTH!
The 15" wheel as fitted to the Capri 280 is known as the 'brooklands' alloy not Brooklyn!
These differed to the 15" RS alloy in having 'Ford' centre caps apposed to 'RS' centre caps.
Also the RS alloys had a square recess surrounding the valve & the Brookland wheel had simply a round hole.
RS 7 spoke alloys were also available in 13" for the Fiesta as well!
To be honest, the 14" RS alloy are not worth a great deal, you may be lucky & get £80 for them.
If they were gen, mint 15" brooklands you would be looking at maybe £300-500!
HTH!
Edited by Gareth350 on Wednesday 21st July 23:12
My old man had a set of brooklands replica wheels on an XR3i years ago.They were 14inch and flat faced as opposed to the brooklands wheels which were dished slightly.They also had nothing to do with an XR4X4.
The XR4X4 wheels didn't have a centre cap as such and were just a smaller version of the S1 Escort RS turbo wheels.
Can you see a date stamp on the wheels anywhere? A full set will be worth more than a made up set from different years if they are genuine Ford wheels.
The XR4X4 wheels didn't have a centre cap as such and were just a smaller version of the S1 Escort RS turbo wheels.
Can you see a date stamp on the wheels anywhere? A full set will be worth more than a made up set from different years if they are genuine Ford wheels.
You could get the ones with the center cap in 13/14/15 and 17 as well all with differant offsets depending what car they where ment for, 7 spokes without the centercaps wheer available in 14 and 15's again differant offset depending on what car the were origionly sold to fit.
get a part number up and i'll tell you what the were for origionlay
get a part number up and i'll tell you what the were for origionlay
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