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There are so many fantastic VW/Audi wheels, that i thought it needed it's own dedicated thread.

Show me your VW/Audi metal goodness!

If you can also add in information about the wheels to let others know if they were just a direct bolt on replacement or if they needed modification like bigger a centre bore, spacers, spigot ring, longer wheel studs, bolts holes enlarging etc

also listing rim size, width, offset and tyre sizes would also help

Ideally what the plan is if we get enough pics of VW/Audi rims on T25's then Mocki says the thread will be stickied and kept up as a database for all members to be able to view

Plenty of Mercedes Goodness lol...not that much from VW/Audi.
Mainly because of the uncommon PCD/offset and stud size fitted to the T3 that its wheel sizes have more in common with big Mercs that small VW/Audi's...that's not to say that there aren't some from the home camp.

Martin

Do Audi make heavy vans?
Do Audi make 2.5 tonne cars for that matter.

kevtherev wrote:Do Audi make heavy vans?
Do Audi make 2.5 tonne cars for that matter.

No but the Q7 is pretty hefty @ an actual 2.6 ton and a GVM of 3 ton and usually OEM rims err on the overkill side for the cars that they are on, for instance the 18" rims on the RS4 are rated at 635kg each, there is also a 17" they do that is rated to 690kg, so within GVM load tolerances of fitting to a t25, pretty sure an RS4 getting hammered at 150mph on the autobahn will be putting more load on wheels than a T25 trundling/wheezing along at 50mph up a hill

well my all time favourite rims are Audi ones. They come from the B4 series Audi A8 and were the so calles "winter alloys". They resemble steelys but are alloys. Size is 16 x 7, offset is 42mm. That means you will need longer studs and spacers but (at least on syncros) the centre bore will not be an issue anymore. They are forged and produced by Fuchs (the ones that make the famous Porsche rims). Forging makes them much stronger and lighter than cast alloy rims. Here's a picture of the wheel on a 16" Westfalia syncro:

E D I T: original Audi Part # is 4D0 601 025 G Z33

Ah yes. That van.

FWIW a first-gen manual Allroad has a kerb weight of almost exactly 2000kg, so those wheels are ideal for a T3 (provided it isnt overloaded beyond the GVW...)

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