SD1 Vitesse Wheels

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chrisyork

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Oh Wo is me! I'm getting to know far more than I ever wanted to about wheels for the P6!

Having established a working solution for the English car of SD1 Vitesse wheels, skimmed by 3.5mm on the rear and with the centres relieved to clear the front hub grease caps, I breathed a sigh of relief and moved on to making up some more for the Thailand car to replace the Interceptor rims.

We knew that at least one of the set had been working on the hub and damaged the stud holes, so it was no surprise when two of the five turned out to be scrappers. What was a surprise was when we found that amongst the eventual set of five we had THREE different offsets!!! I guess there is a difference of about 2mm between the extremes. So we had to machine each wheel individually to get the same offset as we had achieved with the English car.

Anybody know any reason why this should be? Was it a deliberate plan by Rover, or was their quality control so awful this could happen by accident?

All sorted now, but a salutory lesson for others!

Chris
 
Although I suspect BL/Rover did have qc issues at that time it was probally not their fault in this instance as I doubt if they actually made the wheels. There are a number of other reasons why there could be this variance. The wheels may have been machined and supplied in sets, alright as original fit but not so good if you need a single replacement or there may have been a change in supplier at sometime, also during the late eighties and early nineties there were a number of companies offering replica "OE" wheels for lots of makes at much reduced price and I bet their qc wasn't that hot.
 
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