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Old Sep 16, 2002 | 11:46 PM
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Damn, and I thought I was coming home with a new FREE set of wheels!

I'm so mad! My cousin was giving me his set of beautiful 17" Zenetti(spelling?) wheels for free and all I needed to do was buy new tires. I'm in the market for new tires anyways for my 16", and I thought why not just take the wheels and buy new tires for them. So today I go to put them on and the fuggin pattern is off by a few millimeters!! The lug count is 5 but the distance between each lug is like 3 millimeters off! Is there anything I can do about the pattern or no? The wheels came off of a BMW. I guess nothing is free.

Here's a pic of the wheel http://www.washingtontire.com/wheels...ti/valeos.html

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Old Sep 16, 2002 | 11:57 PM
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Re: Damn, and I thought I was coming home with a new FREE set of wheels!

Originally posted by 2KxSEx
I'm so mad! My cousin was giving me his set of beautiful 17" Zenetti(spelling?) wheels for free and all I needed to do was buy new tires. I'm in the market for new tires anyways for my 16", and I thought why not just take the wheels and buy new tires for them. So today I go to put them on and the fuggin pattern is off by a few millimeters!! The lug count is 5 but the distance between each lug is like 3 millimeters off! Is there anything I can do about the pattern or no? The wheels came off of a BMW. I guess nothing is free.

Here's a pic of the wheel http://www.washingtontire.com/wheels...ti/valeos.html

Peace.
Sell them on Ebay and use the money towards a new set.
Old Sep 17, 2002 | 12:05 AM
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I'd rather give them back to my cousin and let him do whatever he wants with them, you know what I mean. It'll be like me taking his money for no reason.

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Old Sep 17, 2002 | 12:06 AM
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Re: Damn, and I thought I was coming home with a new FREE set of wheels!

Originally posted by 2KxSEx
I'm so mad! My cousin was giving me his set of beautiful 17" Zenetti(spelling?) wheels for free and all I needed to do was buy new tires. I'm in the market for new tires anyways for my 16", and I thought why not just take the wheels and buy new tires for them. So today I go to put them on and the fuggin pattern is off by a few millimeters!! The lug count is 5 but the distance between each lug is like 3 millimeters off! Is there anything I can do about the pattern or no? The wheels came off of a BMW. I guess nothing is free.

Here's a pic of the wheel http://www.washingtontire.com/wheels...ti/valeos.html

Peace.
try to trade them?
Old Sep 17, 2002 | 07:01 AM
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BMW and maxima wheels are not compatable as you just found out... (we could have told you this and saved you some time)
Old Sep 17, 2002 | 08:01 AM
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BMW and maxima wheels are not compatable as you just found out... (we could have told you this and saved you some time)
But then people would have harassed him for not searching.
Old Sep 17, 2002 | 08:11 AM
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Yeah, I found that out in a painful way I found wheel adaptors, but they run like 50ea. It's not worth it.

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