has anyone seen porsche wheels on mini.

thanks

chris

 

most modern porsche wheels are 5-bolt, the MINI has 4-bolt hubs.

 

quick! Someone call H&R and see if they'll whip up a 4/100 to 5/130 adapter!

 

I have 4 bolt porcshe wheels on my old VW bug

 

I considered this for a day or so but adaptors and all of it get's to be such a hassle....just not worth it.

 

wow, you guys need some help more then i do. the wheel adaptors arent bad for the car, when i had my 98 gti i was considering doing wheel adaptors and putting some porsche wheels on it. i asked if anyone has seen a mini with porsche wheels, not to know that. "porsches are 5-lug" DDDUUUHHH!!!!! or "how about you call h&r up..." no i asked for a picture. not how to or what to. if SOMEONE has a pic then maybe they can help me out. thanks

chris

 

Salty!

 

d6-mcs

First off, welcome to NAM. We are a jocular bunch of car nuts. Please don't take offense if you weren't treated with utmost respect, it seems to be a simple case of joshing. I doubt that you will find pictures of Porsche wheeled MINIs though. Check out other threads in the Tires, and Wheels forum and I'm sure that you will find someone's wheels to your liking.

 

>>the wheel adaptors arent bad for the car

You're absolutely wrong, wheel adaptors put strain on the hub and bearings, please do not give out poor information and get pissed off at us because we couldn't accomodate your needs.

 

it can be bad and it cant. depending on the size of the adaptor. thanks for the welcome, truely, i am just used to the VW sites were some just pops up a picture that all. if anyone has some pics that would be awesome. thanks

chris

 

from MINI2, care of a former NAM wheel expert....I suspect some know of who I speak....

 

sweetness thanks man. i have been looking for a while thanks


chris

 

>>>>the wheel adaptors arent bad for the car
>>
>>You're absolutely wrong, wheel adaptors put strain on the hub and bearings, please do not give out poor information and get pissed off at us because we couldn't accomodate your needs.

Sorry but I will have to support the VW guy here (being an old vw guy myself)..

Properly designed spacers are fine... it is all a matter of the offset of the wheels you are using!! so putting a 2 inch spacer on stock mini wheels is bad... because of the resulting offset by using the spacers... perhaps you should have all your info before you insult a new member of our community.....

 

When spacing is most damaging -

When your spacer has no hubcentric pilot

When your extending beyond 10mm - stresses increase,
unless engineered approriately

When your adapting to a smaller bolt circle wheel.

They are most definatly not something for univeral applications,
to be safe they should be application specific.

Alex

 

but why have a car that you cant have fun with. there called replacement parts. bearings. i had spacers on a GTI for over a 1 1/2 yrs with no problems. i had good fun with them. personnal choice isnt it really

chris