(S) What a newbie - Alloy questions.

Hi all. Very new here and very new to this car thing.

I have a Grande Punto Active 1.2 3dr.
It's blue. I love it.

Anyways, as I got it on finance I believe I'm going to have it for a long time and therefore I want to do all sorts of beautiful things to it.

Starting with alloys.

That's as far as my knowledge goes. I want shiny metal wheels.

So my questions are:
What do I need
Where do i look
How much money will I need to get together
Size
Type

Ah the joys of being a newbie.
Cheers folks
Jet

You will need to find out the offset and PCD of the wheels you want and compare it to the grandes pcd and offset. Have a search as it will have been covered before no doubt. How much they will be is totally dependant on what style/size/brand of wheel you want and what rubber comes with them. size wise up to 18's will fit i belive and not sure on the width maybe 7.5/8" wide.

Hello and welcome, a good website to look at is http://www.alloywheels.com/ but as for the technical stuff i cant really help you there.

David

Fantastic.

Okay. I'll work on that.
This is complicated.

Nah its easy. Most wheel places will be able to put together a package for you if you tell them what car you have so you wont have to worry about offset and PCD etc

Yeah that would be the simplest way to go about things but more expensive, surely?

Nah not really they wont charge you for it. Most online places will tell you what will fit aswell.

The GP has a PCD of 4x100, ET38 and a centre bore of 56.6.

exactly the same as every 4 stud vauxhall in existance AFAIK.

tyre size is either a 195/65 or 195/60 (cant remember which off top of my head) for 15's, and 215/40 for 17's (you can get away with 205/40 but will look small.)

Thanks for that couldnt remember them off the top of my head

thats my job for you Had to correct the guy at TSW once when he said the centre bore for a GP was 59.1.

Actually its:

185(195)/55(50)/R15
195(205)/45(50)/R16
205/40/R17
215(225)/35(40)/R18

() = optional sizes.

My M-jet 17" tuning fork style were fitted with 205/45/17 Potenzas.
On Ebay now!

A 195/50/15 will look waaay too small on a GP will need to be at least a 55 profile. as for 17s the GP sportings are fitted with 205/45 profile as standard.

Yeah I agree.