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What's the oldest car you saw on the road today?
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fancy pigeon wrote: »[...]
Funny that the wikipedia page for TDX/TRX tyres shows an E34 (525i sport, TU engine, run out model for you anoraks) with the standard BBS non metric wheel
The wheels my brother had looked exactly the same! Although they were 390s and on E28 (actually 2 E28s: 524TD and later 535i).
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The wheels my brother had looked exactly the same! Although they were 390s and on E28 (actually 2 E28s: 524TD and later 535i).
They be E24 metric which looks identical to the regular E34 wheel (E28 had a different design for metric wheels), but has a black stripe the whole way round... The E34 has a different style of BBS metric wheel
Very easy to get caught out! If they had no tyres you'd have to go by the bead on the rim
Some very boring useless information I gathered over the years is finally being shared 0 -
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I had a Montego once, with those metric rims.
Would just go to a breakers yard and buy as good a pair as he had, whenever it needed tyres.
Even the typical tyre changers that small local garages had at the time would struggle to break down the bead and remove the tyre.The wheels my brother had looked exactly the same! Although they were 390s and on E28 (actually 2 E28s: 524TD and later 535i).fancy pigeon wrote: »TDX and TRX metric wheels; the bane of many an E34 owner where tyres would often cost 4 to 5 times the price of the standard size (in my case 225/60R15). Think it was marketed as a compromise tyre (performance driving and comfort in one tyre)
Funny that the wikipedia page for TDX/TRX tyres shows an E34 (525i sport, TU engine, run out model for you anoraks) with the standard BBS non metric wheelVery hard. My brother used to have 5er on similar wheels (TRX system they called it), struggling to find new tyres. Eventually bought a set of part-worns with rims, drove on them for some time, struggling again, finally bought a set of "normal" rims. 2 sets of TRX (nice classic-like BBS rims, I've to admit) left in a shed. Couple of years later all 8 rims landed on a pile in a local scrap metal place.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-michelins-trx-tire-reinventing-the-radial-tire-didnt-work-as-well-as-inventing-it/fancy pigeon wrote: »They be E24 metric which looks identical to the regular E34 wheel (E28 had a different design for metric wheels), but has a black stripe the whole way round... The E34 has a different style of BBS metric wheel
Very easy to get caught out! If they had no tyres you'd have to go by the bead on the rim
Some very boring useless information I gathered over the years is finally being shared
They have to be the most dense, minutiae-filled posts I've ever read on boards. That's seriously impressive lads. Keep up the good work 0 -
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V8 Interceptor wrote: »What is that, a Charger?
Pontiac Firebird.
A Charger is about twice the size! 0 -
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Ubbquittious wrote: »Simca 1000
not sure if the car is made out of damp cardboard, or your phone's a bit wonky 0 -
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