G60 steels - The Differences !

Split these posts from my build thread, as they are better suited here and more members will see the info

 

As quoted many times they are not G60 steel wheels but steel winter wheels. G60 have round holes. Only a small point but while everybody likes to quote OEM all the time.

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I stand corrected

To tell you the truth, I never knew the original G60 steels came with round holes instead of D shaped ones !!

It's true what they say then ! You do learn something new on here everyday

 

Passat steels then

 

this info is strange, I thought the round holed steels were original gti steels which were an alternative from prescribed alloys and the 'd' shaped holes were called g60 because they were an alternative for the g60 and came in 15" to go over the 280mm discs that a 14" rim wouldn't, also my 'd' shaped 15" rims were bought from vw as g60 steels!

 

The round hole steels on the gti were 14" and the original g60 winter wheels were 15" with round holes. The new steels with the d shaped holes are actually passat winter wheels which are the superseded part from when vw discontinued the original g60 steels hence why vw will still sell them as g60 steels when technically they aren't.

 

Sodding VW getting in on the scene tax lol

 

lol

Looks that way !!

 

Yes as of 2011 it was put into law in Germany to run winters for German registered vehicles. It was almost 100% done before anyway. Almost all tire shops have a warehouse that you pay to store your tires if you don't own a second set of wheels. They make hundreds of euros out of the game by every owner. But to be honest running winter tires on all four wheels is like night and day. I'm now home in Scotland and winters going on this week. On my ibiza not the mk2 as it's in bed now !!!!

 

Yes winters as in true winter tires are worth every single Penny and more. I've seen myself on sheet ice and snow going over the A9 to inverness with cars and vans abandoned everywhere and my car just kept going like it was on Tarmac. Why this country as in Scotland have not got the winter tires thing I will never know.

 

Oh rj I will be heading to Andover in next couple weeks so will pop in and collect the seats.

 

I'm working out in Germany at the moment, and about 50% of the cars are on black steels for winter. Something oddly appealing about big Audis on steels...!

As to the law; whilst it exists, most people apparently have a "yeah, next week" attitude (there's no fixed date) The likelihood of being pulled over for an inspection is virtually nil, but in the case of an accident, if its determined that winter tyres would have mitigated the incident and your not running them, then you could find your insurance voided and the opposite party suing for costs...

Also they are more speed-limited than "normal" tyres (210kph max), and don't really give a good ride. My first car out here was Focus estate on all-weather tyres and rode/handled like you'd expect a modern Ford to. Next car was a 320D on the same tyres; a total hoot.

Next up was another 3-series (I'll skip the C-Max mum-mobile I had inbetween...) this time on winter tyres; ride was horrid...like they were over-inflated. And despite being an auto (vs the manual that the first one was), it was actually easier to get the back-end out! Checked the pressures and everything was as BMW-spec.

Now I'm back in a Focus estate on winters and it has the same horrid ride. Everything to spec also, and it just likes to spin up the fronts out of every junction with no effort.

Seems to me, winter tyres are really only suited to actual winter conditions, and not merely cold, damp roads. I guess that's why most Germans are saying; "yeah, next week"...

 

Going back to 'G60' steels, mate imported an Edition 1 some years ago from Germany, in the boot were a rusty set of steels with the D shape holes in.

VW Heritage think the D shape ones are G60 too! http://www.vwheritage.com/vw_spares...el-357601025M_act_shop.product_pID_199472.htm

However, this thread goes with the round hole theory! http://www.dubforce.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=14619

 

Yes rj you are correct. I have 2 sets of round holes. My banded set of 8j and 7j and my winters set pictured above that are proving handy on my junker ibiza tdi up here in inverness. They are 535 part numbers if I recall. Like anything with golfs they are only worth what somebody will pay for them. Not sure how popular they are in the uk but when I was in Germany my scrappy had loads and at 25 each I got 8 just to be safe.

I will come get my seats I promise! Or as soon as Lisa's eos is fixed you can dump them in there at next.

Baz.