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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:29 pm 
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Hi,
i Have seen a set of ford factory wheels on ebay and i want to buy them the seller says they will fit my model but he said i need spacers to fit them, does anybody know what this means?!?!?

they are

FORD AU 1 FAIRMONT WHEELS

trying to be fitted to a 96 EF

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 12:39 pm 
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Hub adaptors.. they bolt onto your exsisting hub and have another set of studs that the AU offset wheel bolts to.. do some reading on them first though.. people are 50/50 love hate these things and also check with vic roads on legals for em.

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 6:40 pm 
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etty sure spaces/hub adapters are illegal
aparantly you can get the AU rims made with a e series offset, not sure where from though

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:08 pm 
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I was talking to a guy at a wheel store in slacks creek today, and he does hub adapters.

Acknowledged that they are illegal, but he does them.

Now how do you go about insuring if you use hub adapters?

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 7:13 pm 
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lol dont tell the insurance company about spacers....
just that the car now has rims....
lots of places do make them but always say not our fault if you use them on the road.

 

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Posted: Fri Sep 07, 2007 8:12 pm 
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Planning to get these once my parents move to the middle east...
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Would the grip difference between 19x8.5 and 19x9.5 be cost effective?

 

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Posted: Sun Sep 09, 2007 11:50 am 
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Rick_Deckard wrote:
Planning to get these once my parents move to the middle east...
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Would the grip difference between 19x8.5 and 19x9.5 be cost effective?
there nice they llook good on the green

 

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Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:45 am 
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