me and my mk3

[dylan8]

5x98 is great
dont need adapters for that, either open the holes to 15mm or run wobble bolts

Mount them up to the car, that will tell you the PCD and Centre bore, then you can actually measure for yourself.
instead of spacers get bigger lips made up, wont cost much more and will have more wow

[anthony--t]

5x98 is great
dont need adapters for that, either open the holes to 15mm or run wobble bolts

Mount them up to the car, that will tell you the PCD and Centre bore, then you can actually measure for yourself.
instead of spacers get bigger lips made up, wont cost much more and will have more wow

Good to know if they're 5x98 that it won't be a problem. Did think about wobble bolts if that's the case.

The problem here is that i can't get them on the car the spacers aren't for width they'd be for clearing the nuts from the caliper and getting the wheels on the car. I can't try see if the centre bore is right cause the caliper stops the wheel face getting near the centre bore. Hope that made more sense so you understand the problem.

Tomorrow I'll try the rears and hopefully they'll go on and the caliper won't interfere

[Ben J]

I have the same problem with the BBS RS I'm building, you'll need to run a small spacer to clear the front brakes. The rears should clear the brakes fine, so yeah thats what I would be trying too to check centrebore/pcd. And yeah, 5x98 will be no problem once you clear the brakes, as said, wobble bolts would fix that easily, or as dylan said, if you already have to have the wheels in getting the centrebore enlarged, could get them to make the holes a little bigger also and you could just use standard bolts.

I love 15's on a mk3, these will look awesome once you get them working

[anthony--t]

I have the same problem with the BBS RS I'm building, you'll need to run a small spacer to clear the front brakes. The rears should clear the brakes fine, so yeah thats what I would be trying too to check centrebore/pcd. And yeah, 5x98 will be no problem once you clear the brakes, as said, wobble bolts would fix that easily, or as dylan said, if you already have to have the wheels in getting the centrebore enlarged, could get them to make the holes a little bigger also and you could just use standard bolts.

I love 15's on a mk3, these will look awesome once you get them working

Cheers mate, will check the rears tomorrow to see what the go is with centre bore, pcd and caliper clearance. Hopefully they will be fine probably not the centre bore though and then I could run bigger lips out the back and just run the spacers up front can't wait to see your RS's

I agree 15's look sweet! There's a whole thread on vortex for 15's on mk3 VWVortex.com - Pics of mk3's on 15" wheels........... please post

[anthony--t]

Just did some more measuring up on them and decided to double check the width turns out they're only 6.5" I guess the guy who owned them had no idea and didn't measure bead to bead. Barrel 5", Lip 2.5" overall width 192 so centre line 96, face to inside lip 132, 132-96=36

So I guess they're technically 15x6.5 et36

[anthony--t]

Test fitted rears for the simmons and they bolted straight on! Caliper clearance, centre bore and pcd no problem.
Hopefully look at some wider lips for the rears.



I think I need about 20-30mm spacer to clear front calipers.

2 minute dodgy photoshop to see what they'll look like


yellow fogs

[Pmk]

Please don't tell me those simmons are the ones from cabramatta ? because i was bidding on the SAME SIMMONS !! FOR MY CAR ! haha

[anthony--t]

Please don't tell me those simmons are the ones from cabramatta ? because i was bidding on the SAME SIMMONS !! FOR MY CAR ! haha

Haha na mate, got these up Newcastle way so not the same set. Out of curiosity how much did that set go for?

[Pmk]

Haha na mate, got these up Newcastle way so not the same set. Out of curiosity how much did that set go for?

went for $120 ! cheap as chips and it was pretty nice too. But these were globes but had nice polished lips too. Real nice fitment size should look go man !

[anthony--t]

went for $120 ! cheap as chips and it was pretty nice too. But these were globes but had nice polished lips too. Real nice fitment size should look go man !

Wow that is cheap! If I'd have known I would've been bidding on them thanks I'm hoping they'll come out nice after a little refurb