Alloys wheel fitting and adapters and stuff

[bluespanner]

Does anybody know how I can make 4x98 pcd alloys fit onto a car with 4x100 hubs?


Cheers
Roland

[wildoliver]

Just hammer them on

[bluespanner]

Cheers for that.

[wildoliver]

Ok I'll be serious.

Options:

1) oval the holes. V.Dangerous.

2) fit wobbly nuts/studs. Bodge IMO.

3) Aluminium weld the holes up, then get the wheels re drilled by an engineering shop, and crack tested. Possibility of wheel failure due to mettalurgical structure of wheel being changed by wheel, and of course the holes may be drilled off centre.

4) Adaptors. probably the best "bodge" in terms of safety, but they also act as spacers so they may not fit, and may knock out wheel bearings.

Basically buy another set of wheels that fit, what are the wheels?

[bluespanner]

wildoliver said:

what are the wheels?

Damn cheep. Although I'm only really thinking out loud...

[wildoliver]

Well depending what they are and what your car is then i would really have to be convinced they were silly cheap to even consider it.

what model of wheel are they and what are they going on, and how much?

I may have a set of 4x100 14" for sale if your interested.

[bluespanner]

They are 15", with 195/45R15 tyres, the wheels came off a Punto and I wondered if i could put them on a Corsa

I want 15s really, but cheers

[teeev]

Would it not be possible to re-drill the hubs to match the wheel PCD?

[wildoliver]

Don't get in to redrilling hubs/wheels unless you really have no other choice, to be honest if you said you had an incredibly rare car that you couldn't get wheels for I would understand, but not being funny you have a car with possibly the widest choice of wheels available.

Just go and buy some that fit the car and stop bodging lol!

Oh and if your buying them from a performance point of view as opposed to looks make sure you buy light ones, not the halfords specials.