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Wheels for 96 960 900 1996

posted by  Aye Roll on  Sat Jan 31 11:08 CST 2004
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Your car uses wheels with the shallow (positive) offset of the FWD cars.
Wheels from a 94-up 850,or S/V 70 will fit it. These cars can and do use 15" steel rims, and will be fine. Wheel and tire packages are available through most tire shops, and many of the suppliers on here sell replacement 15" steel rims for that application.
IT is a little weird to appreciate that this latemodel RWD car can't take the wheels from the older RWD cars, but there is a whole family of rims that can be used instead.
Note the wheel sizes, and bolt patterns are the same for ALL the cars, but the offset (or backspacing) is the issue here.
Appropriate tire sizes would be 195/60-15 or 185/65-15, to give the same rolling diameter as your existing 205/55-16 tires now (assuming stock rims.)
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: '87 244DL/M47- 225K, 88 744GLE- 209K, 91 244 183K. Also responsible for the care and feeding of: 88 745GLE, 229K, 88 244GL, 146K, 87 244DL, 235K, 88 245DL, 236K






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