Question about 140/160 wheels.

[guitarman]

As far as I know, early 164s were on 5J wheels, up to '70?
Then 5 1/2 J as on my '73.
Not so sure now, I've read early models were on 4 1/2J ?
Also read today that whilst all other years had 25mm offset the small run of 164s made in '75 had 5 1/2J wheels with a 40mm offset; they'd sit further out then wouldn't they? Wonder why...same discs, vented from ATE, solid rear?

[classicswede]

The very early wheels would be the ones that look like amazon wheels. Most likely the only cars with them would be non pas. As the the 75 model year I don't know but the 74 is just normal wheels.

[Triple-S]

Agree with Dai for UK cars, but the Jo'burg-assembled 1973-registered 164 I had until recently had early 140-style wheels and hubcaps yet had power-steering (plus aircon of course....). The car was a '72-model like my injection one, which has the later-style wheels with the hubcaps screwed-on as opposed to knock-on. My '71 145 also has screw-on hubcaps whereas my '68 142 had knock-ons, so guess the change in Europe was between those dates for both models.

Mind you, SA-assembled cars had other features not on European-market cars, like small clear reflectors on the front (like pedal-cycle reflectors) as an SA legal requirement, and some had odd-looking half over-riders below the rear bumper (at least). Then American cars didn't have built-in spot lights - they had the fluted metal discs fitted in place throughout the production range, like just the earliest European cars had ('68 model year, like mine). Certainly those disc covers look odd on a late large-bumper American car!

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[Volvorama]

The early oval hole wheels are all the same width, but there are two width sizes for square hole wheels.