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Originally Posted by Stephen Edwin
May I clarify the above please.
I like the pudding basin things that you have covering the very centre of each wheel. And with those any correctly made domed nuts are good.. The ones that go with Virgo wheels would be a typical choice for domed nuts for a 240.
I do think those wheels started life with simple wheel nuts, not domed, covered by a flat centre plate. If someone can tell us the name of your wheels, you might find some second hand flat centre plates, and simple nuts, IF you want to.
It's a nice looking car.
Have fun.
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Aha. Having made the effort to look through the turbobricks link (
thanks for the reminder Loci) It looks as if your wheels Agnew are the:
Early GT - 20 spoke 14 x 5.5 J x 20
pn1229535 (BUT in a search engine that ref. produces images of five different wheels)
Anyways these from turbobricks look like your wheels.
http://www.240.se/falg/1128493.jpg
From that image it looks as if those were fitted without centre caps. Which seems odd because the central area of the wheel is unfinished. So being without centre caps they have domed wheel nuts. Any made with the centre cover would, as said before, need ordinary steel wheel nuts. The cover would physically not fit with domed wheel nuts.
Those in that link are shown there with a different design of little "pudding basin" central covers compared to what is on your car now. The type of pudding basin on your car now were used quite a lot on 240s with steel wheels, shortly before the [ghastly awful] plastic wheel trims were introduced.
This link to Oz Volvo Forums shows wheels like your Agnew, but with a finished central area.
https://ozvolvo.org/discussion/7191/...els-with-tyres
So. Overall. I reckon.
Your version of the wheels Agnew with an unfinished central area probably had centre caps, like those Omega wheels below, and ordinary wheel nuts.
The version with a finished central area, seems to have had little pudding basins, and domed wheel nuts.
P.S. This link show the 15" Omega wheel, with centre cap, that I mentioned before.
http://www.240.se/falg/1359180.jpg
I do like the look of your car.
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