Great!

Bloody great, thanks Mr Audi driving **** who cut me up and I hit the curb!

They fit

Well it took me and Ramus over an hour to replace all the wheels but it was worth the hard work. They Fit!!!! I have been worried all day, wondering, wishing, hoping.


New V's Old


Ramus doing some work!


All finished.

Straight away I noticed an improvement in the handling and stability at high speed. She has never driven so well... The best bit was not the new wheels, but that the car has been sat for over 5 weeks now and she started first time and I had no problems with the engine or gear box! (Touch wood)...

Wheels are here

Wheels turned up today Yippeeeeee!!! they seem a lot bigger than what is on the car now, but in actual fact they are smaller! Figure that one out...

The Question is will they fit?

Already upgraded

I had a telephone call on Monday evening from the wheel company expressing their concerns that a 255 tyre would not fit the arch and it was recommend a 225 tyre would be a better alternative.

After thinking about this I decided that I did not want to do that as the car already has 220's and for the price I had paid it wasn't worth the upgrade...

I spoke with a guy called "Michael" who was very helpful and after loads of telephone calls we changed the wheels and the tyres for a different size!!

I now have coming 245/40/18 - upgraded to 18" rims. The overall size is a little smaller than the current tyres but hay. Size aint every think Ramus!

Message from the supplier

"Just in case you need confirmation we will be sending you 18" muggelo + 245/40/18 tyres. again sorry if we have confused you but it becomes expensive if you get it wrong. thanks dp"

P.S. Thanks Rash for winding me up about the result last night...

WHEELS ORDERED!!!!!!!!!!!

Today, I ordered some new wheels for the car. I have bitten the bullet and ordered a nice set of new wheels.

I have gone with some bad boy wide tyres! I saw a set of 255's on Chris's new Range Rover and wanted some of that!

17" DOTZ MUGGELO ALLOY WHEELS SUPPLIED WITH 255/50/17 PERFORMANCE TYRES

The reason I went for 17" is because I did not want to change the overall size of the wheel as I wanted to double check they fitted in the arch and the speedo was correct.

Also a new tyre for these wheels are 66 quid not 140 quid.. so I can replace 4 new ones for the price of 2 old ones... Beat that offer Tesco's

Cool tool

I have found this tool which shows the effects of changing your wheel and tyre size and how it changes your car.

I have been trying to work out what the change in wheel size will have on the car, and if they will work out a similar size.

This site will even tell you what the effects are on your speedo after you have changed the wheels.

http://www.kouki.co.uk/Utilities/tyresizer.asp

Thank you! http://www.kouki.co.uk

Wheels - Dimple but not simple!

Well what can I say, it is very depressing trying to find some replacement wheels for the Jag.

I wanted to get some Dimple alloys that replaced the silly ones Jaguar originally used. The old ones are 390mm where the Dimple ones are 16".

EBay seemed a good place to look, but people want silly money for a set of wheels! So I am starting to look at aftermarket ones.

Replacing the tyres was an option, till I got a price of 140 quid per wheel, and need to do 3 of them!! :(


Dimple but not simple!

At least its not just me

This morning was fun...

Ramus picked me up for work as I'm still deciding what to do about the wheels on my car!
The only problem was Ramus ALSO got a puncher... On the same wheel as me!!

We were travelling down the M27 heading towards Fareham, in a traffic jam, in the rain. Some bloke in the car next to us, got our attention and said "Your tyres flat mate". I looked out of the window, and yep it certainly was!! Ramus asked me how flat, as I think he wanted to drive to work like this! I said "Dont go over 70MPH flat".

We pulled over on to the hard shoulder and I made Ramus stop under a bridge...



Changing the wheels on a Citroen thing'y is really easy!! Pump up the suspension, place the jack under the car and lower the suspension... As easy as that!!

The HA support team turned up and watched us change the wheel... But at least they had some handy wipes. LOL

Moving the car

Today I wanted to move the car to the back of the house. I enlisted in the help of Ramus and Rash to keep an eye on the wheel as I moved it.


I only just made it with the tyre nearly coming off the wheel..... LOL....



These tyres are a right dog to find and are silly money!! I think this is because the wall is height (65) and the size are in mm (390) not inches they are a funny size...

"Thank you" to the person that designed the wheels for this car!

Great start to the day!

What a nice start to the day. I know I needed to change the front tyres but I didn't think I would need to do them just yet!!!

I dont think the car knows I have a wedding to pay for...

What do I do, need a new spare tyre and now two new fronts, so I am looking at 360 quid to payout on tyres!

Or do I buy a new set of wheels that come with tyres?