How long are standard wheel bolts for an Uno 45s Mk1 steel wheels? I'm putting the alloys on the turbo and normal steels on the Mk1. The alloy wheel bolts are too long with steel wheels. Could really do with this info ASAP so I can pop out and get tomorrow.
Cheers
Trevor

Can't help there Trevor, as my car is thousands of miles away so I can't check

However, it's worth bearing in mind that the bolt shoulders for the steel and alloy wheels are different. The steel wheel bolts will not work with alloys because the shoulder is too tapered. When I tried my alloys with the original steel wheel bolts the hex edges were grinding into the alloy wheel bolt holes :bang:

However, I'm sure the difference in length between the alloy and steel wheel bolts is only a couple of milimetres? One suggestion is to find a thread in the Uno or Cinq section where people have fitted alloys to a car that originally came with steels. They sometimes have to use a spacer, so find out the width of the spacer then subtract that from the length of the bolt you have. That should give you the correct length :idea:

But I would have also thought that any shop selling wheel bolts should have a book with all the correct lengths and thread pitch specifications for appropriate applications.

One last suggestion is to go to a scrap yard and find some bolts there. I'm fairly sure both Cinq and Punto steel wheel bolts will fit too.

I take it you are selling the mk1...

Got some from the scrap yard off an old Punto £3 for 16 bolts. The actual bolts were 4cm long, the thread part was about 2cm long. Did the job.

Yes the car was sold at 2:40 today. The wife is pleased.

thepottleflump said:

Got some from the scrap yard off an old Punto £3 for 16 bolts. The actual bolts were 4cm long, the thread part was about 2cm long. Did the job.

Yes the car was sold at 2:40 today. The wife is pleased.

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And it looked so nice too after all the work you put into it

Can I ask how much you got for it? Just wondering if my mk1 45S is actually worth anything. Oh, and did the buyer buy it for a turbo re-shell?

At least you're still with us with the mk2

I did put quite alot of work into it and sold for £250 cash in the end with most of my decent upgrade parts removed i.e. no alloys, springs or upgraded shocks - put the old springs and shocks back on. Not a great deal of value and pretty much the going rate for these cars if ebay and other sources are anything to go by. £250 is twice what I paid for the car in March but then I did bung an MOT on it and do quite a lot of work like weld the arch. There was a good swell of interest at that price but I think would struggle much higher. In the end I didn't do it for profit but for interest so I'm not complaining. I also managed to salvage a few extras from the car like the alloys which may well go on the UT otherwise probably ebay.

Unfortunately I don't think the car has a particularly bright future ahead of it. The couple that bought it seemed to know a little bit about Fiats and cars but I suspect it'll be used as a cheap runaround until the MOT expires and then scrapped if repairs are required. While I'd have preferred to have sold to someone wanting a good shell the car had to go to keep her indoors happy, but there you go.

thepottleflump said:

Unfortunately I don't think the car has a particularly bright future ahead of it. The couple that bought it seemed to know a little bit about Fiats and cars but I suspect it'll be used as a cheap runaround until the MOT expires and then scrapped if repairs are required. While I'd have preferred to have sold to someone wanting a good shell the car had to go to keep her indoors happy, but there you go.

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Looking at it another way, you may have done the enthusiast community a favour, as if it comes around for sale again - at least it will probably be cheaper... And you saved an Uno, so that deserves recognition

Those Mk1 Punto wheelbolts are really short, if I remember correctly... but they're plenty for the job with steel wheels. The opposite is more of a concern - with alloys needing longer bolts, and as Chas says, the standard bolts not seating properly.

-Alex