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they are very very rare!!!!!! you would make a mint in the vw community with them, what pcd are they?? I had those ones you see which are pug fitting and made good money on them,, so virtually the same as ford, and another set of 5 stud, which are ford 5 stud fitment, the wheels will need to be reduced in width as there is too much inset, so after a bit of research leads me to beleive the splits are the same as 16" BBS the vw crowd love a high offset so they can run adaptors to the different pcd's. personally think the 5 stud ones could fetch you £1k+! lovely wheels , if you ever get another set let me know ! they are rarer than bbs splits and 16" bbs splits make £1200 at least.

they are very very rare!!!!!! you would make a mint in the vw community with them, what pcd are they??

im normally a lurker on here and am in the VW community so thought id add my 2p (selling up for some OSF) and as said stretching tyres is pretty much on every watercooled VW at theminute and ive had stetched tyres on quite a few sets of wheels, biggest strectch being a 215/35 on a 9j rim. it tends to be more a form over function thing to be honest, wide wheels are popular so an equally wide tyre wouldnt work in an arch etc. this was the start of the stretching, then it caught on as more of a look. i was never going to get the 275/40 tyres on my car that the wheels originally had and they would look like balloons so a smaller tyre has to be used in order to get the wheels i wanted on my car! its something thats been disputed to the nth degree for years, ive never seen a tyre come off, ive never had a tyre come off, yes they handle 'different' and takes some getting used to but in my opinion are not unsafe at all (if you keep it in sensible limits, ive seen 185 width on 10j rims where inner tubes have to be used etc which i think is dangerous). 175 on a 7j is a perfectly safe stretch and probably within manufacturers limits, ive seen 165 on a 8j with no difficulties. all drifters stretch tyres and have no issues, something to think about, used to stretch tyres on race cars too. just a VW persons thoughts on the matter its been a while since i posted on here, my sig is about 4 years old