Technical seicento front struts

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Technical seicento front struts

ALAN4

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Have bought a pair of new suspension struts , but looking at the old ones before removal i notice how extremly close to the wheel rim these are , i'm talking 1or2 mill , this dosn't seem right to me ? both sides are the same and i have the standard 165-55-13 tyres on ali rims .

Is this normal or does something else need fixing before i replace the struts to give a larger , safer gap .

Bearings are good .

Alan .
 
check the offset of the wheels.

I just wonder if someone has put Punto wheels on? They tend to have offsets of around 35 (which puts the wheelrim well inboard of the position on Centos). See here. Should be a stamp with the ET on there somewhere (often on the rear of allloys, and round the front near the nuts on steelies.
 
I just wonder if someone has put Punto wheels on? They tend to have offsets of around 35 (which puts the wheelrim well inboard of the position on Centos). See here. Should be a stamp with the ET on there somewhere (often on the rear of allloys, and round the front near the nuts on steelies.

Will look for the ET and take photo tomorrow .

Thanks Al .
 
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Here are some photos , in one it shows an embossed number on front of wheel C-27.5

Alan .
 
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Here are the wheels . I thought Custard said 27.5 was standard on these cars when considering the spacer thickness, possibly i am mixing this up with something else ?

Alan
 
Here are the wheels . I thought Custard said 27.5 was standard on these cars when considering the spacer thickness, possibly i am mixing this up with something else ?

Alan

No. It's just that they look so very close. Odd. They look like plain Jane Sei Sporting alloys. Unfortunately I've nothing around to compare them with.
 
Unless they are missing the spacers but I thought seis didn't have or need spacers?

I thought i read the same no spacers needed (which they havn't) but looking at the closeness of these struts I would be willing to fit some , unless somebody can tell me they see a problem from the photos that would cure it , or again is this just normal on these cars ?

Alan .
 
Apart from the wheel offset and spacer the other thing that could close up that gap is if someone has used camber bolts to increase -ve camber.

Another possibility is if someone has had the mounting face of the wheel machined down, which will move the wheel in. Unlikely, but possible.
 
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