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Fliplowe

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Cinquecento alloys - Rubbing at back.
« on: August 22, 2009, 04:52:35 PM »

  Hi all,
 My girlfreind unfortunately recently had to scrap her cinq sporting, so I did what any self respecting 126er would do & nabbed the alloys, along with a few other choice bits (parcel shelf absolutely does not fit btw, short of sawing it in half).
   Now my Bis is a '91 and completely standard and the tyres on the cinq alloys are Nankings, 165/55 13's so i didn't envisage any fitment problems, the front wheels went on textbook, no problems, but the back wheels (just one as far as I can tell) are rubbing against the side of the inner arches, no problems with profile or anything else, it just seems like the actual rim is too wide for the car, when I'd just fitted them it seemed like the camber was ridiculously positive, but now they seemed to have settled in & look fairly normal (for a 126). Any ideas? seems like lots of people on here have fitted those alloys and tyres to a bis and haven't experienced any problems?

Thanks.

Eklipze3k

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Re: Cinquecento alloys - Rubbing at back.
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2009, 07:09:33 PM »
I'll need to check but I think the offset may need looked at. From what I've heard 126's take wheels with an offset around the ET38 mark and IIRC Cinq alloys are ET25 which would explain why they rub. I know you can sort it the other way by using spacer but I'm not sure what to do in this instance.

Also, might be a bitty cheeky, but have you still got the parcel shelf and is it uncut (ie. no 6x9 holes)?