Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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Hi all!! I have one question, I'll change the wheels and I want buy the TEAM Dynamics Pro Race 3.

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Is it posible? Will the break fit in?
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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You'll have to get a 5 stud version or use adapters as the new polo isn't 4 stud
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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alexperkins wrote:You'll have to get a 5 stud version or use adapters as the new polo isn't 4 stud
The img it's an example :wink: I'll buy 5x100
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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Well rightly or wrongly, I have bought a set of used VW Riverside alloys for my wife's Polo 1.2TSI SEL - and yes that car has the bigger brake set up. Your spare wheel, if you have one, will be steel 15" and so it will fit, I have not tried the 15" steel spare wheel on wife's Polo. The 15" VW Riverside alloy wheels do fit in as much as they clear the brake callipers, but only by roughly 10mm - I have not seen any cars that are getting supplied with a brake/wheel combination that end up with roughly 10mm clearance - but maybe that is okay.

What I have noticed in the past is the phrase "winter use steel wheels" used by manufacturers, now this might be just because in Europe, steel wheels tend to get used in winter, or it might be that the "one size down" steel wheels from any wheel supplier are guaranteed to fit over these brakes due to the material being thinner, where it can get messy is, that some models of 15" alloy wheels, with the correct width, ET and centre bore, might not quite fit safely over these callipers due to the alloy wheel design.

Finishing comment, the VW Riverside alloys I have fitted to wife's Polo with the ATE brakes and 288mm (?) discs, have roughly 10mm clearance even at the points where the correct stick-on balance weights have been fitted.
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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10mm clearance is acceptable :)

As for the 5x100, just checking 8)
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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alexperkins wrote:10mm clearance is acceptable :)
Ta, but I'll keep on worrying!
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Re: Polo BlueGT with 15" wheels?

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May I ask why would you go from 17" to 15"?
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