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Steel wheel covers 850 1997

posted by  ThePylon on  Tue Jun 22 16:50 CST 2004
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Hi, all

Just bought a used '97 850, which came for some reason with winter tires and steel wheels with their covers. I noticed that the wheel covers sat a little funny, but assumed it had to do with the tire size (1856515's). However, I just replaced the tires, on new steel wheels (I'm cheap) with regular sized tires (1956015's) and still notice the weird fit of the covers. The only picture online I could find like the covers I have are on volvoworld, here:

960? wheel

And are captioned there as being from the 960 (?), whoch would explain the weird fit, I guess... The fit is such that they sit outside the wheels, and seem to float over the wheel/tire combination - just a couple of mm's or so, but noticeable.

Any ideas on what the problem might be? Are they maybe installed incorrectly? Or do they look a little odd usually? Should I be "investing" (remember, I'm cheap) in another set, like these?

850 wheel?

Thanks for any advice!








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    Steel wheel covers 850 1997

    posted by  james_a_sousa on  Wed Jun 23 11:37 CST 2004
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    I have a set of each on our 850s.

    The first one is sort of a premium wheel cover, about $26 each, the second is a cheap choice that comes with Volvo's snow tire/wheel package, about $28 for four.

    I have had no trouble with either.
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    Steel wheel covers 850 1997

    posted by  someone claiming to be coot on  Wed Jun 23 10:24 CST 2004 [RELATED]

    The picture you called 960 wheel does indeed come with the 850s.
    Most 15" trims should fit a 15" wheel.

    Your trims, on the outside rear, should have plastic tabs with a wire ring running around them. Sometimes the wire can pop out, or the plastic tabs break off. This can cause misalignment.

    The second thing, though obvious, is that these have a small notch where the tyre valve goes so need to be aligned on this.







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