Refinish wheels or buy new ones? Bigger tires?
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Which I find very disheartening being the previous owner of this HHR has a father who owns a shop called Rule Tire, who himself performed all the maintenance on this. The HHR belonged to the daughter so maybe her husband just tossed these on the front. Either way it's sloppy. Rides great but still sloppy care for a auto.
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Thanks.
As for the pic sizes I had no idea. Usually sites deny or resize pics when sizing rules are in affect.
OK. I doubt some of these scratches could be polished out and even though I do some body work upgrades and painting along audio installs on the side I think I will just get custom wheels being my free time for myself is limited.
I noticed here that the stock wheels are 6.5". I was thinking they were 7.5? When purchasing new wheels can I just grab 17" 7.5 wheels and 225/50R-17 94W BSW goodyear eagle gt's without clearance and fit issues?
As for the pic sizes I had no idea. Usually sites deny or resize pics when sizing rules are in affect.
OK. I doubt some of these scratches could be polished out and even though I do some body work upgrades and painting along audio installs on the side I think I will just get custom wheels being my free time for myself is limited.
I noticed here that the stock wheels are 6.5". I was thinking they were 7.5? When purchasing new wheels can I just grab 17" 7.5 wheels and 225/50R-17 94W BSW goodyear eagle gt's without clearance and fit issues?
If you go aftermarket, be sure to get "hub-centric rings" for the rims.
Yes 6.5" wide is stock.. You can go to 7.5" wide, but be careful about the offset on them..
Don't want them sticking out the fenders, or inside too far rubbing..
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a good powder coat shop should be able to strip and buf and recoat these for about $75 to $100.00 each, my guy did my Boyd's for my old ride and they were better than new and no more weekly polishing
Last edited by Oldblue; Oct 12, 2012 at 05:00 PM. Reason: miss spelled word
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If you upload your pics to the gallery here, they do re-size the pics.. But an outside host will not.
If you go aftermarket, be sure to get "hub-centric rings" for the rims.
Yes 6.5" wide is stock.. You can go to 7.5" wide, but be careful about the offset on them..
Don't want them sticking out the fenders, or inside too far rubbing..
If you go aftermarket, be sure to get "hub-centric rings" for the rims.
Yes 6.5" wide is stock.. You can go to 7.5" wide, but be careful about the offset on them..
Don't want them sticking out the fenders, or inside too far rubbing..
OK. I used tinypic to upload, I could not find a internal place to upload pics.
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Thanks. I'm going to ask a buddy who knows a shop that does that type of work and get some info. Being I like the stock wheel style if I can get them repaired for around 100 each that's what I'm gonna do. Save 400 or so.
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