Great tech advice as usual, Bill.
Contacting a wheel repair place here in Oregon (Eugene area is the
closest), I find that straightening the three slightly deformed 14x6"
factory alloy wheels that I intended to use is $150 each. I about
choked on that price, then I found out what a set of these wheels
goes for on fleabay. Even bent up,corroded ones in this style are
asking $90+, and one seller had the gall to ask $650 for five that
were all bent. Just the center caps are asking $110!
Woody's pricing is in line with what I was told here. Perhaps with
the "Dube Discount", the cost of shipping would be a wash. I'll give
him a buzz tomorrow.
BTW Bill, Last time you imparted tech wisdom my direction it was to
recommend Audi 4000 rear springs to get my ride height back to
something resembling "normal". It was a struggle, but I located some
in Germany for the Audi 80, and had them shipped. Now I have to get
busy and buy some Audi shock absorbers, and fabricate top mount hats
for them. They don't fit the Rabbit spring perches, larger diameter
(and closer to those fat tires on the 45mm rims...). Kind of makes me
sick how many of those Audi 4000's I used to walk past at the
wrecking yard 20 years ago on my way to the rows of VW's I was
parting away at. What I wouldn't give for just one of those
now-long-crushed bloatmobiles today...
Earlier in the week, I took a box of miscellaneous shock and spring
hardware from several Rabbits that I parted out, and an old set of
still-useful Rabbit shocks and built a 1-3/4" lift section in the
lower spring mount. Got the car's tail off the pavement at last,
although I still have to suffer the mushy, overloaded stock springs.
The new temporary 195/60-14 tires would have gotten the side walls
shredded on the first trip to town if I hadn't done something to raise the body.
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