As anyone who read my recent post is aware I recently obliterated one of the rims on my 1985 745t. In an effort to identify the make for reference and get a replacement I used the rim pics and names located on the page below:

http://brickparts.d--r.com/wheels/

According to the pics I have a 15" Nova, albeit with a different looking cap (the one shown looks like an early version with the all metal cap, maybe on the '84 model?). However, I just received an email from rob haire indicating that his parts catalog IDs these rims (pictur at bottom) as the 15" Sirius rim, not the Nova.

So does anyone else concur with this error on the site I used? Are my rims in fact Sirius and not Nova? Not that I don't trust Rob, just trying to get confirmation so I know what I'm doing and looking for. Hopefully the folks taht emailed me went by the description and not the name, right? (I figure few people actually have any idea what the actual names are anyway... ;)

Thanks for any help.

Best,
Rick

Just for the hell of it I figured I'd post a pic of the dent that resulted. If you look at teh inside you can see the spot where the outer edge and inner rim ripped apart as the rim dented upwards. Insta-scrap.

Thankfully the rim seems to have taken the entirety of the impact, my suspension seems fine.

-rt

I hate it when that happens! Did the same damage to a rim on Buffy (my gladly departed '88 VW cabriolet "botique"...whoever thought of white on white on white for a convertible should be shot). In my case a semi chucked a couple of large load lockers (turnbuckles?) into 8 AM traffic. One wheel busted and punctured the other front tire.

Can you believe the tire shop offered to "straighten" a rim that loked like that...visible cracking and all.

Onkel Udo

Yeah, that's one ugly dent ... but at least it dented instead of shattered like one 17" rims on a Civic I saw in the junkyard.

Last 3 digits of the p/n ... 998 is machined, 603 is painted finish.

-- Kane

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Blossom II - '91 745Ti/M46 ... Bubbles - '74 144GL/BW35 ... Buttercup - '86 245GL/AW70 ... The Wayback Machine - '64 P220/M40

Wow now you got me wanting to know...I used the same site to id mine...Guess I don't know what they are called....With a set of pirellies they look real sharp on my 76 244 though. Mine came off of a 1983 760 GLE...I think they were original though... I actually have the window sticker for the 83 it just says "6.0x15 ten spoke alloy wheels"
Bret
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rust free in west Texas

Oh yeah, according to VNA p. 119 of the Quick Reference Parts Catalog those are 1229998-8 (polished) and 1329603-3 (lacquered) Sirius wheels. Course, VNA might print a misprint, who knows?

Regardless of name my rims are bear the part number for the secodn version you mentioned, 1329603. I don't know what the -3 part means (don't have that on there), maybe market or something.

So it seems I have the lacquered Sirius rims. I like them a lot, much more than the rims with the little slots at the edge and big disk in the center I see on lots of NA cars (Omega according to the flawed rim page in question). I think the only other 15" I'd go for is the Adhara (again, possible misname), though a set of 16" Galaxy rims would look pretty sweet. :)

Best,
-rt

Um, I thought the Sirius wheels were on the newer 40 and 60 series, the 5 spoke 16" right?
Look like a "Nova" as I've seen them/heard them called.

Well I could see Volvo having an "older" Sirius back on the earlier Bricks (85-88) and then liking the name and resurrecting it later for a different rim. They might figure that as long as the part number is different and you're not selling them at the same time the name is irrelevant. As far as I can tell my rims weren't produced after '88, so there would have been plenty of time between the two.

However, as the post said I don't really know either way, so I'm hoping someone who "knows" will either back-up or refute Robs id. I'm still looking for another source online, but I haven't found anyone who lists the rim with its name (parts numbers, no names).

Thanks,
rt

Chilean sea bass or patagonian tooth fish? Whats the difference. Part number is what counts but my source was the Quick Reference Parts Catalog by Volvo (Volvo North America?). I'll check again but I am sure Nova is wrong since the Nova is a REALLY boring alloy that looks like a 240 hubcap. I looked it up this morning and found the wheel easily enough, comes in two variants by the way, a sharp edged spoke and a later soft edged spoke, with different center caps and paint schemes. Now that you might want to look into. I believe the catalog termed these Sirius, I'm serious, but not positive.

The pun is truly a lost art form. :)

"N-O-V-A. T-a-y-l-o-r, N-O-V-A. C'mon, you say it now."

I have every faith in your ID senor Haire, just figured I'd toss it up on the board to get it definitively hashed out for all to see. There's strength in numbers as they say.

I think the one pictured in my post above is the earlier version used on pre-85 models. I don't base this on anything definitive and I don't know abou this sharp versus soft edge. However, the cap on the one in the picture looks more akin to the earlier rims on lates 70s early 80s 240s (metal, painted, etc.) while mine is the plastic/sticked version I've seen on later 740s and 760s over the years (seems like all the caps after 85 were plastic instead of metal, maybe to reduce rusting and lower costs?).

Yeah, like I said in my post I don't think the name actually matters as long as whoever I'm talking to knows what rim I'm discussing. It would be nice, however, to have some kind of definitive reference for this so everyone can easily refer to it and be on teh same page. Maybe the FAQ should have shots of the 700/900 rims with names and part numbers?

-rt