Are 16" SAAB wheels fitting in a 900 Classic convertible
Denis Zerr
turbo to put them on a `94 900 Turbo convertible. Has someone already done
this successfully? Or would this cause alot of issues?
Thanks
Denis
RCS
talking about the 3 spoke Aero dark grey /polished rim.
It´s possible to put it on the car, a lot of people have done this cause it
looks great but it´s illegal and it´s boring cause you cannot concern with the
car in nice corneres or the rear tire will scrubb the rear fender. The problem
is not the tire size but the offset of the rim. The maximum size that works is
205/55-15" on 6x15"/33mm rims (like the asymmetrical 3 spoke Super Aero rim).
The offset of the 6.5x16" rim is 27mm and that´s too much even when you use
the larger suspension limiter on the rear axis that´s also needed for the
205/15" rim or this will scrub too when the car is heavy loaded.
The better solution is to use the 6x15" rims (attention: no 7x15" rim!!!)
cause one can use also tires sized in 205 and 55 is already very hard,
sometimes too hard on motorways. The 205/16" tire has even a smaller diamter
but scrubs too. If you have the 6.5x16" rim you have to take the large limiter
and 195/50-16" tires on the rear to decrease the scrubbing problem - but it
scrubs sometimes too! (It would be possible to use the 16" rims when one could
correct the offset from 27mm to 33mm or better more by turning off some
milimeters on the inner flange of the rim but that´s illegal too and I haven´t
written that... NO! don´t do that it´s not worth it!!!)
Greetings, RCS
1993 900 turbo convetible
Denis Zerr :
Matt
RCS <e922...@stud1.tuwien.ac.at> wrote in message
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Oh No, I'd better go and rip my 17 inch Oz Super T's of my 900i right now.
Yes its possible, just swap the springs for stiffer ones, spax ones work
well, to stop any scrubing of tyres on arches and your sorted
Alec Dearden
My 900 Carlsson has 16" x 6" Super Aero alloys and they look great. I run
205/50 ZR 16 Tyres. SAAB do larger bump stops for the back for when you run
6" wheels. The part number is 40.138003009 and is not expensive.
Alec Dearden - al...@rocketship.com
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From: "Denis Zerr" <syl...@earthlink.net>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 3:47 AM
Subject: Are 16" SAAB wheels fitting in a 900 Classic convertible
> Hi, I would be interested to buy 16" factory wheels coming off a 1992 9000
> turbo to put them on a `94 900 Turbo convertible. Has someone already done
> this successfully? Or would this cause alot of issues?
> Thanks
> Denis
>
>
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Johan Lauwers
They made an airflow model of a 900 with 16" wheels factory installed on it.
Johan.
88 900 i
94 9000 CS
94 9000 CSE
95 900 SE conv.
RCS
I know about that but it scrubs too when you use other tires than Pirelli P600!
RCS
Johan Lauwers:
RCS
tire) ... if you use the right offset "insertion depth" of the rim.
Normally 27mm is to little on the 900 rear but there were only SAAB 16" rims of the
9000 available and those had 27mm. My Saab mechanic told me that they modified
(enlarged) the bump stop on the rear of those cars that much (took some of the
metal spacers) but some cars never stopped scrubbing...
Greetings, RCS