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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby harveyp6 on Thu Dec 18, 2008 7:53 pm

P6 nuts won't fit those wheels, and SD1 nuts wont fit the P6 studs, so you either fit SD1 studs to the P6 hubs and use the SD1 nuts, or get nuts the same as the SD1 type but with UNF threads to fit the P6 studs.
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby tantus pedis on Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:47 pm

Hmmm - this is getting expensive. SD1 nuts are near on £80 a set never mind the studs. Do you happen to know what kind of seat I need on a 7/16" nut?
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby harveyp6 on Thu Dec 18, 2008 9:54 pm

Easiest way is get a secondhand set of studs and nuts from an SD1.

Shame you didn't speak up earlier, a mate of mine has scrapped two within the last month. (I've got a handful of SD1 nuts somewhere, one of which you could use as a pattern to get UNF ones.)
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby tantus pedis on Fri Dec 19, 2008 10:34 am

Paid the guy selling the wheels an extra 30 for the nuts, studs and hub covers. Then another £26 for the courier :roll:
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby Tor on Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:59 am

Earlier in this older thread I mentioned 7x15 Minilites fitted to a V8 I'd seen for sale, where the seller said he hadn't done any modifications to the car. Well, now it's for sale again: http://www.finn.no/finn/car/used/object ... e=21698241

That works out to around £6500 with today's exchange rate, and if it's in as good as it looks (there's not much of a description) that's a pretty good price up in these parts. Even without PAS and with that expansion tank setup. It really sits well on those wheels...
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby chrisyork on Sat Apr 17, 2010 12:39 pm

That does look georgeous! It might even be worth that money here! But I can't see that the arches are unmodified at the rear, the fronts are far enough out to imply a serious conflict at the back otherwise!

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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby DaveHerns on Sat Apr 17, 2010 5:21 pm

Nice steering wheel as well
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby sowen on Sat Apr 17, 2010 8:11 pm

chrisyork wrote:That does look georgeous! It might even be worth that money here! But I can't see that the arches are unmodified at the rear, the fronts are far enough out to imply a serious conflict at the back otherwise!

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Seconded :wink:

The front wheels look like they're in the same position as mine, and the rears look to be tight against the rear arches aswell :shock:

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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby norsewood on Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:25 pm

chrisyork wrote:That does look georgeous!


I don't normally rate green as one of my favourite colours on a P6 but ......that looks the absolute dogs danglies :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
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Re: What is the prettiest wheels on a 3500 s

Postby Tor on Sat Apr 17, 2010 10:02 pm

It does have a pretty gloss to it, and the Nardi wheel works with the sandalwood (?) interior... About mods, Chris - I could only refer what the seller said a couple of years ago (before his P6 enamoured daughter talked him out of selling it at the time), which was that he had the rims made to fit, around £700 the set I think. Otherwise the car seems to have been well looked after throughout its life, and is largely original. My bet is that it sells within days. I picked mine up for not a lot less, needing quite a bit of fettling for its first MOT in ten years, which is still two jobs away...
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