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Old 27-01-2007, 10:43 PM   #1
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Unhappy Tweet tweet, can anyone say canary!

Well after having the wheels and the wing on the Astina for 3 1/2 years, someone has finally, officially told me I can't have them!
Got pulled over today, 6 houses from my house, the cop in an unmarked SS commodore, me in the Astina. I already knew the wing was a pedestrian hazard, so I didn't have a problem with getting defected for that, but the cop also then gets out his calipers and measures the rim width, and checks the load rating of the tyres, and low and behold, they are un-roadworthy. The minimum load rating was 85, and my tyres are 84's, and the maximum rim width I'm allowed to have in Victoria is 1" over the maximum stated on the tyre placard, which is 6". My rims are 7.5", so they are no good.
He checked the lights, wipers etc, and everything worked fine and after being extremely nice to him I managed to get out of the $175 fine for driving an un-roadworthy vehicle , but still slaps a canary on it. So now I have to take the wing off, put the stock wheels back on, get a road worthy cert and take it to vicroads to get the canary taken off. I'm pretty lucky really, cause it will only cost the price to get a roadworthy signed off, cause nothing else is wrong with the car.
So there may be a wing to give away, and some 18x7.5's wheels to sell or swap for 18x7's!
Well that was my crappy day
Out of interest, what is the width of a standard SP20 rim?
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Old 27-01-2007, 10:58 PM   #2
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Out of interest, what is the width of a standard SP20 rim?
sorry to hear bout being slapped with the canary!

stock rim size of sp20 i believe is 16x6
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Old 27-01-2007, 11:01 PM   #3
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Yeah that's what I thought. Hey it's my bad about the wing, so I'll cop it sweet, the rims, well they're too wide, but funnily enough the rolling diameter was fine? Go figure!
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Old 27-01-2007, 11:09 PM   #4
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Yeah that's what I thought. Hey it's my bad about the wing, so I'll cop it sweet, the rims, well they're too wide, but funnily enough the rolling diameter was fine? Go figure!
Ah, gotta love QLD, we have the 30% rule....
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Old 27-01-2007, 11:15 PM   #5
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It's cool, once I move to Darwin the rims may go back on if I don't have a different set by then. The wing I don't think will go back on though, time for a change.
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Old 28-01-2007, 06:26 PM   #6
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actually the SP20 width is a weird 6'5" which is why you can't get as many tyres for it as you should.
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Old 28-01-2007, 06:44 PM   #7
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actually the SP20 width is a weird 6'5" which is why you can't get as many tyres for it as you should.
Hey Dave,
Wherecha get this info from??

Coz im pretty sure its 16x6 with +50mm offset
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Old 28-01-2007, 06:48 PM   #8
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Doh! well, at least it's pretty easy to clear!
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Old 28-01-2007, 07:44 PM   #9
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Doh! well, at least it's pretty easy to clear!
Yeah I know, but now the car looks poverty pack, I even put the hubcaps back on!
Can someone actually confirm that the SP20 is a 6" or a 6.5"? If they are 6.5" I might have a look around for a tyre placard off an SP20!!! Then the 7.5's will be legal!
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Old 28-01-2007, 08:05 PM   #10
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yeh i just checked my placard.
16x6
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Old 29-01-2007, 10:24 AM   #11
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The rules (in NSW) read something like the "widest factory fitted wheel" and includes models and variations. ie a Falcon/Commodore can use the widest FPV/HSV wheel as the basis for the width measure. So the widest may not always appear on the placard.

But on the 4-stup (not SP20) cars you're screwed becuase it's a different hub setup and therefore you can't use that excuse (not that it helps in this case)

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Old 29-01-2007, 10:38 AM   #12
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But on the 4-stup (not SP20) cars you're screwed becuase it's a different hub setup and therefore you can't use that excuse (not that it helps in this case)
LOL i did!
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Old 29-01-2007, 10:41 AM   #13
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Ah, gotta love QLD, we have the 30% rule....
It's 50% maximum wider width in QLD. But are you gonna fit a 9 inch wide rim on a Astina? I don't think so.

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Old 29-01-2007, 10:48 AM   #14
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i think l;oad rating is a bigger issue than wheel width. can you get tyres with a load rating of 85 in 18"s that will actually fit?
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yeah 225/35r18 but $80-100 more a tyre
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i think l;oad rating is a bigger issue than wheel width. can you get tyres with a load rating of 85 in 18"s that will actually fit?
Load Rating is actualyl the easy one for them to book you for - as you must exceed or equal the factory load rating with any tyre. Catches a lot of the big car guys out as there's often two ratings for the same model tyre, and the cheap ones don't meet the spec. Tyre shops typically don't care

Dan I like you style, and yes it's a bluff that woudl work 99% of the time

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Old 29-01-2007, 02:19 PM   #17
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Dan I like you style, and yes it's a bluff that woudl work 99% of the time
Sorry, should have elaborated...i used that excuse with the engineer!
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Old 03-02-2007, 07:13 AM   #18
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Hey guys, car is all roadworthy again, although fairly gay with the stock rims and hubcaps!
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Old 03-02-2007, 12:56 PM   #19
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Alan, how did you fill the holes in the stock rear wing? Also, if you take the hubcaps off and and have the black wheels on show, some ppl actually think that is quite tuff lookin'. Atleast this way your wheels will match your tail and headlights.

And now there is no more white on your car: PLEASE PAINT YOUR WIPERS BLACK AGAIN! pretty please?
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Old 03-02-2007, 03:01 PM   #20
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Gav, you are so funny. I may paint them eventually, just at the moment, I can't be stuffed. I'm over the car at the moment. Yeah I've filled in the holes where the wing was. I bought some proper rubber grommets from repco for filling in holes.
If I can sell my wheels and tyres, I'm thinking of going gold or black wheels, just something different. I quite like the Lite-7's that speedy wheels make, but I have to sell my wheels first, and then I can decide from there.
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