A friend is trying to get these wheels onto his GP Sport.



But, this country being retarded, his GP does not have these alloys and their size homologated, so they are not legal to put on. What he requires are TÜV certificates, somekind of official papers for the manufacturer that these wheels are okay to use and homologate.

Is there anything out there?

I thought you can have any type of alloy wheels on any car as long as they fit, I will be removing my APE Claw alloys (for safe keeping so they don't get damaged etc) for either 17" or 18" Dotz, Wolfrace, TSW etc.

Thunderbug said:

I thought you can have any type of alloy wheels on any car as long as they fit, I will be removing my APE Claw alloys (for safe keeping so they don't get damaged etc) for either 17" or 18" Dotz, Wolfrace, TSW etc.

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Thing is in Slovenia it may be completely different laws.

Also in this country if you put the claws on a regular GP/PE/2012 they are only just legal without the arch flairs.

Common sense is not something often found in this country.

My Mk2 has 195/45/15 written into its homologation paper from the factory. If I want to use 50 section tyres, I have to pay a HM centre 50€, so they can write in it's okay for me to use that size. Same trick for the alloys.

Now if you like to live dangerously you can slap on whatever you want. But then a policeman will come and ask for the paperwork? No paperwork? No car. **** it then.

So, in order to homologate a certain type of alloy size, you need TÜV papers for the said set of alloys. That's what I needed. Since my topic was opened, my friend found out that the alloys are a no go, not even FIAT themselves have paperwork to make it legal on a normal GP.

SchumacherM said:

Common sense is not something often found in this country.

My Mk2 has 195/45/15 written into its homologation paper from the factory. If I want to use 50 section tyres, I have to pay a HM centre 50€, so they can write in it's okay for me to use that size. Same trick for the alloys.

Now if you like to live dangerously you can slap on whatever you want. But then a policeman will come and ask for the paperwork? No paperwork? No car. **** it then.

So, in order to homologate a certain type of alloy size, you need TÜV papers for the said set of alloys. That's what I needed. Since my topic was opened, my friend found out that the alloys are a no go, not even FIAT themselves have paperwork to make it legal on a normal GP.

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Blimey that sucks. Seems they are extremely tight on their laws. In certain aspects its a shame we aren't as tight. The amount of heavily modified cars you see driving about is crazy especially with 9/10 not declaring any mods. Problem is you never seem to see or hear about anyone being penalised about it.

Just write to the local Fiat importer to get them, failing that go to Fiat/Abarth direct in Italy (assuming your Italian is good enough). I have homologation papers for my old X1/9 so it could go racing in production class with a number of modifications including different wheels, seats, brakes, carburettor, etc.

They *will* have all of this but the problem as originally pointed out is that the Abarth GP is not the same as the Fiat GP (about the only time this has been as issue as everywhere seems to record the Abarths as "Fiat Abarth" (if they include Abarth at all in the name).

It is a common enough question though and one that crops up in a large chunk of Europe as TUV standards have to be met - the UK is very, very lucky not to have to comply with such things - to us it is just unneccessary expense and makes certain products pointless (eg carbon fibre panels weighing as much as the steel originals in order to meet the TUV requirements). You can thank the kitcar industry for our liberties...