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Old Aug 3, 2015 | 03:49 PM
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So I've been in contact with Trevor via FordPartsUK and he seems to think these wheel will fit.. But I've heard that before. again my concern is the 55mm offset. Now another concern just popped up.. The lug size. According to all specs we need M12s.. the wheel above says M14..

This has been an on going battle of ours to find a stock alloy wheel that will fit on the Transit Connect.. Sure Ford offers an alloy wheel.. and we don't like it.. too ordinary. But I wanted to clue anyone reading about something I found out about these online wheel sites. They claim a wheel fit guaranty. But searching sites like CariD they have a long list of wheel options for our minCargo van.. But they don't list what the offset is on these wheels.. Thus one would have to explore the wheels manufacture site.. I found out that several of those wheels which I thought we might be interested in.. turns out the offset on these wheels are in the 73mm range which is way too wide.

So how can CariD sell these wheels with that kind of offset.. one thing they don't tell you is that, they're guarantee includes a "hub-centric" wheel ring which you must purchase also. Yeah sure that wheel looks great, but wouldn't fit on your car/truck etc when you try in mount it.. because CariD didn't inform you that you needed hub centric wheel rings.

My next option was to search for Volvo wheels, same bolt patter, offset is 50mm but again the center bore (65.1mm) & the lug size (M14) are an issue. There I contacted a custom wheel shop.. they can mill me 2 piece set for $780.00 ea. (not an option) Then another company said they would alter their wheel design to fit our transit.. I'm like great.. but there was a catch.. min order of 200 wheels costing nearly 31K..

My wife said it best, drive our stock steel wheels and crappy tires into the ground, and hopefully sometime down the road someone will create that perfect wheel for our van.
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