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Old 25-05-2006   #1
 
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15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Hi,
I am looking for some answers about puting 15 inch wheels on my Seicento.
Ive rang around many wheel shops and had the door slammed in my face everytime.

I know what I want but know one seems willing to help. I managed to find one helpful place who says 15 inches can be done with just the rear arches rolling. What I dont want to do is spend in the region of 500 quid on a set of rims which either dont fit or need heavy modification to the car before they fit.

The wheels I had in mind were Team dynamics Monza Rs, the helpful guy rang Team Dynamics and they said they could supply a 15 inch rim to fit but the bodywork would need some modification, but they didnt say what was needed exactly.

Im desperate for input on this, so please help me out here guys.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

you need the specs of the wheel PCD etc
als check out the FAQ's as wheels are well covered,as well as a search on the forum
once you have gathered the info then you can make a constructive post.
you will need the arches rolled plus you dont say if the car is lowered
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

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Yes the car is lowered, 35mm. I wasnt that worried about my post being constructive I just wanted help, in the past I have left the technical stuff to the wheel specailist in the shop. All im asking is what is generally required, modification wise to put 15 inch wheels on my Seicento, which for the record is a 2000 sporting Abarth model.

Sorry if my intensions were unclear in my original post.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

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Yes the car is lowered, 35mm. I wasnt that worried about my post being constructive I just wanted help, in the past I have left the technical stuff to the wheel specailist in the shop. All im asking is what is generally required, modification wise to put 15 inch wheels on my Seicento, which for the record is a 2000 sporting Abarth model.

Sorry if my intensions were unclear in my original post.

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you still have not supplied the required info as i said in my 1st post
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Sorry i dont your required information.

I know the pcd is 98. Ive put wheels on every car ive owed since I been driving and everytime the guy in the shop takes care of the technical stuff and reads the required info from a book, until now. I just would like some friendly advice from someone whos already riding on 15s.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

weeeeeeeeell perhaps since i dont run 15's theres no point in me replying?
however you need the offset of the wheel,your asking questions and not giving the info.
these questions are asked a lot and without the info you cant expect a conclusive answer ,can you?im trying to be helpful and could have posted a
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Maybe I wasnt born to drive a Fiat ?

Thanks for the tip.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Im asking questions which I dont have the info to, thats why Im asking.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

sigh,well i cant tell you the offset of the wheels you picked
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Ok
Lets try a different angle. Lets say I found a wheel which was 6 inches wide 15 inches diameter had a pcd of 98 and an offset of 30 and required a tyre which was a 195 45 15. Would I need to do body modifications to fit it to my Seicento ?

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

from what ive read on the forum on a lowered cinq/sei you will need to roll the arches regardless
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

Is that the extent of the mods in your opinion ? Because that would be ok.

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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

if the wheels are 6J wide then an offset of 30 is no good, you really want to be working towards an offset of 35mm then you may get away with minimum arch mods, i fyou donot understand offset then it works like this, the larger the offset eth more into the arch teh wheel goes, the lower the more it sticks out, so you have already abarth rims of 14" which have offset 36mm but are 5.5J and have 10mm spacers at the front, so front wheela re runnin gan offset of 26mm.

BUT all this information is already available on this website, in fact i have written this twice today already.

If the wheels over 6J wide you run into bigger problems.
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Re: 15inch wheels.Seicento...the truth needed.

team dynamics are multi stud usually the guy in wheel mania offered me some they are 4x98 and 4x104 or summin stud, and ET35

im rollin on 15's mine are ET15 and 5.5J on 195, 45 rubber.

fronts rub on full lock and rears have started to rub now my boot install is taking place lol

dropping it 35mm soon and rolling my arches so they should sit snug under the arch just hoping lowerng it 35mm wont make my exhaust rub against the road as its very big twin pipe
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