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Apologies for the long post 
So being the total noob I am, and without doing any research I went to halfords last week and purchased these alloys/tyres. There's a link on the page about which cars the wheels fit, and it says punto 99>. So once I'd got them I was reccomended to a garage called 'the wheel specialist' to have them fitted, got there and found out halfords had given me the wrong fitting kit as it hadnt come with any spigot rings. So back to halfords I went, got given another fitting kit, back to the garage, had them fitted but when the car was taken off the jack the back tyres were rubbing something and the front were touching something at full lock.
Had the steels put back on and was told to order some hubcentric spacers, searched and searched but couldn't find the exact size I'd been told to get. Phoned a fella from ebay who told me just to buy these. So went to halfords as they sold the same thing. Back to the garage, had the alloys fitted and I thought that was the end of it...
The wheels were sold from halfords as balanced, but driving down the motorway the steering wheel was shaking quite violently. Booked in at my usual garage for tracking and balancing yesterday. Got a call from them sounding quite concerned and asking who had fit the wheels, they said because of the spacers there wasn't enough of the bolt actually screwing into the wheel, only about 5mm, they said they'd taken the spacers off the front and told me to order some longer bolts. Alternatively go back to 'the wheel specialist' and ask to have it in writing that the wheels are safe like that! :bang:
Anyway so I've ordered some longer bolts which should arrive Monday, when I was driving today I noticed a banging coming from the wheels when I was driving slowly (under 10mph). It seemed to get worse as I could then hear it at 30, seemed to be a bang for every full turn of the wheels. It was actually quite scary, then whole car felt like it was vibrating, was very glad to get home and wont be moving my car until I have the new bolts. I had a feel around and cant feel the wheels touching or rubbing anything. Could it just be the fact that I need longer bolts? I'm worried that something is touching the tyre and its just going to shred it up.
Halfords will be getting a strongly worded letter of complaint from me, if they're advertising the wheels to fit the car then surely they should fit straight up without all this faffing about.
RAHHHHHHHHH :bang::bang::bang: rant over. Sorry :doh:
So being the total noob I am, and without doing any research I went to halfords last week and purchased these alloys/tyres. There's a link on the page about which cars the wheels fit, and it says punto 99>. So once I'd got them I was reccomended to a garage called 'the wheel specialist' to have them fitted, got there and found out halfords had given me the wrong fitting kit as it hadnt come with any spigot rings. So back to halfords I went, got given another fitting kit, back to the garage, had them fitted but when the car was taken off the jack the back tyres were rubbing something and the front were touching something at full lock.
Had the steels put back on and was told to order some hubcentric spacers, searched and searched but couldn't find the exact size I'd been told to get. Phoned a fella from ebay who told me just to buy these. So went to halfords as they sold the same thing. Back to the garage, had the alloys fitted and I thought that was the end of it...
The wheels were sold from halfords as balanced, but driving down the motorway the steering wheel was shaking quite violently. Booked in at my usual garage for tracking and balancing yesterday. Got a call from them sounding quite concerned and asking who had fit the wheels, they said because of the spacers there wasn't enough of the bolt actually screwing into the wheel, only about 5mm, they said they'd taken the spacers off the front and told me to order some longer bolts. Alternatively go back to 'the wheel specialist' and ask to have it in writing that the wheels are safe like that! :bang:
Anyway so I've ordered some longer bolts which should arrive Monday, when I was driving today I noticed a banging coming from the wheels when I was driving slowly (under 10mph). It seemed to get worse as I could then hear it at 30, seemed to be a bang for every full turn of the wheels. It was actually quite scary, then whole car felt like it was vibrating, was very glad to get home and wont be moving my car until I have the new bolts. I had a feel around and cant feel the wheels touching or rubbing anything. Could it just be the fact that I need longer bolts? I'm worried that something is touching the tyre and its just going to shred it up.
Halfords will be getting a strongly worded letter of complaint from me, if they're advertising the wheels to fit the car then surely they should fit straight up without all this faffing about.
RAHHHHHHHHH :bang::bang::bang: rant over. Sorry :doh:
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