Harj's Mk2 Sprint Blue Punto Sporting

Okay guys, I know most of you have seen my car before, but I have been told to create a new thread with pics of my car.

1.2 16v Sporting
Sprint blue (d'oh!)
50mm Spax lowering springs
GPS 17" alloys
Mk2b rear lights
Renault Laguna front splitter
Audi style led's (Will provide night pics soon)
Removed side door mouldings

All comments welcome with open arms!








Night pictures coming soon!

did you have to do anything to the wheels to get them to fit? i thought they had a smaller center bore

that looks sweet with those sporting alloys
I love that blue, my mate's is similar

Dave your right they have a smaller centre bore, but if you use 5mm spacers, the wheels go straight on and the wheels fit perfectly.

Without the spacers they are only slightly off, say about 2mm in the front and 4mm off the back.

The pcd is the same(98) but the offset on the wheels are 40mm and the mk2 punto is 35mm...so with 5mm spacers you get the correct fitment

Im guessing we are gonna see quite a few puntos with these rims v.soon!

Thanks mate

those wheels look very sweet!

How do 5mm spacers make the centre bore bigger?

They're Grande Punto wheels so the PCD is 4x100 so they are not safe to fit to your Mk2 Punto which has 4x98 PCD unless you use wobbly bolts.

5mm spacers do away with the centre bore.

cars can be driven about quite safely without centrebores with wobbly bolts, though - i know a couple of people that have never had any problems with it.

having said that, its not quite as safe, and the bolts should be regularly checked for tightness...

On my car the locating lip on the hub protrudes 10mm, so there will still be 5mm left?

It's not safe, especially when using wobbly bolts as the wheel will be sitting off centre if there is no centre bore, so the wheel will not be rotating truely leading to vibrations which will be noticeable at high speed (70+mph).

love the wheels.sell them me lol

that is quite correct, and i agree with you. But try tell that to one of my mates.... the wheels felt perfectly balanced in his car, and he was running around in that car for about a year without a problem
sometimes thats just the way it is, i guess.

Putting 5mm spacers on wont change the centre bore it will just lower the offset. Grande wheels are 4x100 aswell so if you are running standard bolts they are unsafe and you need to at least use wobbly bolts to make them semi safe and then you could do with getting the centre bore proffesionally machined to increase them to 58.1mm instead of the 56.4 that i think the grande is.

im guessing, that putting 5mm spacers on effectively made the centre bore redundant? and even though the hup centre protrudes further than 5mm, i *think* that the chamfer on the centre of the GPS wheels will make up for this?

just guessing, i want to see how you have done this.

oh, and getting them machined wont cost that much, personally i would do i properly

wobbly's are fine, as long as you do get those centre's machined, as its not a great idea .

if you insist on continuing using the car without spigots, tighten the whelels as you would a cylinder head, equally cross centred on a clockwise rotation.

Jordan

looks awesome with those wheels