Wants

by "CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
Published 03/28/2017 at 17:27

Tags: wheels ; Pontiac GTO ; gto ; pontiac ; gm
STARS: 3

A set of factory GTO 18" wheels.

Or maybe some CV8Z wheels....

oohh or some VF SS wheels

*hint* I want new wheels on my GTO

Replies (20)

"S65" (granthp)
03/28/2017 at 17:40, STARS: 0

What wheels are on it now?

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/28/2017 at 17:41, STARS: 0

Factory 17"s

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/28/2017 at 18:44, STARS: 1

Have you had any strut rub issues with the 17's?

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/28/2017 at 19:01, STARS: 0

No, that was an issue fixed by a good alignment.

"citrus" (roamin)
03/28/2017 at 19:05, STARS: 1

Those vfss wheels look really good,

Idk about the offsets that fit the gto, but you could look at ctsv wheels too, I finally got mine mounted on the Caprice

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/28/2017 at 19:08, STARS: 1

G8 GXP had them too

As long as they are the 5 lug, they should fit, but I believe you may need spacers.

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/28/2017 at 19:12, STARS: 1

I remember it being an issue on the forums that a lot of people were having, and not all of them got fixed with an alignment. When I had mine, after they fixed the strut rub, the outside of the tire rubbed the wheel well at full lock. I never gave them the chance to fix it again, because then the lemon died on me. After they put in a new ECU in, I went straight to another dealer and traded it in.

I still miss that car. It was by far the nicest, coolest, fastest car I ever owned. I just couldn’t keep the damn thing out of a service bay to save my life.

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/28/2017 at 19:14, STARS: 0

Yeah some cars just don’t want to be fixed. I haven’t had the issue. All I know it that an alignment fixed most of them. If not then you needed new bushings. Sad you needed to get rid of yours. Mine has some issues, but being 11 years old and the previous owner only put 9700 miles on it I guess it is a little expected.

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/28/2017 at 19:20, STARS: 1

Yeah, no car is perfect. Mine was just a lemon. I owned it for 3-1/2 months, and it spent 31 days of that in the shop. Thankfully it was under warranty. Had I bought it new I could’ve lemon lawed it, but I bought it as a CPO car. I was lucky to get out from under it, and am still driving its replacement, my ‘06 Sierra crew cab.

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/28/2017 at 19:24, STARS: 1

Wow, that is a crazy amount of time in the shop. Glad the replacement is going strong though.

"citrus" (roamin)
03/28/2017 at 19:30, STARS: 1

G8GXP wheels are actually a little different, the V wheels are very flat, while there’s more curves in the GXP wheels

V wheels are wider too :D

I did have to run a 5mm spacer at all four corners though, glad that’s all i needed lol

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/28/2017 at 19:33, STARS: 1

Yeah, it was nuts. It had to go, I was losing sleep over it. I even had to walk to work once.

The Sierra has been dead reliable for 11 years and 119k miles so far, with just regular maintenance and minimal repairs. The biggest repair it’s needed is a $500 steering rack at 100k miles. Starting to get a bit rusty, so I need to handle that before it gets out of hand. I about shat myself when I priced out a replacement truck.

"jdrgoat - Ponticrack?" (jdrgoat)
03/28/2017 at 22:21, STARS: 1

Both 18". My factory 18's have been relegated to winter usage after I bought the other ones...

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/29/2017 at 10:34, STARS: 0

Very nice!

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/29/2017 at 10:35, STARS: 0

Yeah, 40k for a base trunk and 100k for an Escalade.... It is all fucking stupid. You’d have to buy a used truck at this point to even make sense.

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/29/2017 at 18:47, STARS: 1

Yeah, and even the used ones are crazy pricey. I paid under $22k out the door for my ‘06 (2wd base model crew cab with the 4.8). I just discovered the alignment is off, the inside shoulders of my snow tires got chewed up (the tires were due for replacement from age anyways), so off to the alignment shop I go.

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/29/2017 at 18:58, STARS: 1

Well everyone wants a used one right now cause new ones are outrageous.

Off, that sucks.

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/29/2017 at 21:58, STARS: 0

Exactly.

Eh, as much as it sucks, it’s been 2-1/2 years and 19k miles since I had to do anything but oil changes and a new set of All-Seasons. I can’t complain too much. When I got the steering rack replaced, they told me the alignment was just a little out of spec, because the adjuster on the right upper control arm was rusted solid. They said if I wanted it perfect I would need a new control arm, and gave me a shockingly reasonable estimate to do that. Obviously that’s gotten worse in the last 2-1/2 years. I guess I’ll have to bite that bullet.

"CaptDale - is secretly British" (captdale)
03/30/2017 at 13:25, STARS: 0

Well that doesn’t sound too bad then

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
03/30/2017 at 15:54, STARS: 1

Nah, I can’t complain.