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Paul In Ireland
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« on: August 14, 2009, 06:58:14 AM »
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I am putting the chrome dress rings from my FE onto my FC and find that they do not quite fit. They are basically loose in the FC rims. I think if I bend out all the tabs slightly this will correct the fit but I am not sure if they will stay on at 100kmh. I think the FC has HR rims from what someone observed from a picture a while back - are there ever so slight differences in 13" rims of the early Holdens?


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« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2009, 09:28:27 AM »
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I had the same problem, two dress rims fitted perfectly, the other two were loose on the wheel.  I finished up getting two FC wheels from El Presidente, got them all sand blasted and painted (at the same time I fitted new white wall tyres) and now they all fit fine.   Grin   Grin   Grin

Also when I bought my wheel trims they had double sided tape on them, so I think the owner before me had the same problem.

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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2009, 07:36:06 PM »
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Paul,

You may remember that I mentioned that the ute has the wrong rims on it...  That is why the dress rims do not fit properly.  You need some dress rims that suit HR or XM/XP Falcon.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2009, 07:32:25 AM »
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Actually, I found that when I bent all the tabs out about 5mm the rings fit perfectly. At least they didn't fall off in a 100k round trip....
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