Well they have been on for a month now and I finally got around to taking some pictures this weekend. This wheel and tire combo have been a 5 week fight to get them on. I bought the wheels at Ford Carlisle two years ago. I bought the tires from tire rack over a year ago. I decided it was time to mount them up and discovered written on the box was a warning not to balance the wheels through the center holes? Well after some research I found out the you need an adaptor for the balance machine that centers them from the lug holes. I called up Hunter from work to find out about the adaptor, $900 +. Well the boss wouldn't go for that and no one else around had one. Then the Hunter rep called me back and told me he believed that our Nissan store had one. I called down there and sure enough they had one. Come and get it we never use it. I ran down the other end of the auto mall to retreive it only to find it was broken and missing parts. Made a parts list of needed items and call Hunter, $55.00. Not bad I was going to pay it. The Nissan Mgr offered to write me P.O. to have them billed to him, YEA...!!!. A week later the parts arrived. fixed the adaptor and mounted the front tires. After some thought I decided I wanted the rear tires bigger so I called Tire Rack for a bigger size to match the fronts. Was told they are discontinued and only one left in stock, bummer. I made some calls and located one at Goodyear store. One from the rack and one local, another week gone. Got the bigger tires mounted and balanced. Brought the car to work, got it in after hours and put the fronts on. They fit nice 23560R15's. Took off the back tires and put the left side on first 27560R15's , got it bolted up only to find it smashed against the leaf spring. Need spacers! Off it came. Next day made some calls, nobody carries spacers except Peps. Went that night and bought the only size they carried. Two nights later tried them but still not right, back off again. Called Jegs and ordered bigger ones, almost $80.00 for the nice ones. They did not show up on the day the tracker stated. Over another week has passed and then they show up. Took the car back to work the next work night, took off the left rear, put on the spacer, bolted up the tire. Spun it, dropped the car and it fits great! Back up on the lift, off with the right side, spacer on. I can't seem to get the wheel to go on, what the @#$?*&^! Its a chevy lug pattern! I just happen to save the business card from when I bought the wheels, Gave em a call and explained what happened. I was told that they did have that problem two years ago and they took GREAT care of the problem. Sent me a new wheel ( a week and a half later ) and I returned to them the packaged wrong wheel. For some reason the right side rubbed on the inside side wall. I made the adjustments needed with a hammer and now all is well! And here are the pics of the new tires and wheels ...
we have that adapter as well.... and just like ur nissan store, our's is never used lol car looks good
I was thinking the same thing with mine. A totally different look. I like it. Its very retro and era correct.
Hi, Bob Thanks! The stripes are metallic silver. I will be putting on the side grabber stripes in a week or two. I had the body shop match the paint to a sample of the tape stripes I bought. This is my original mock up of the stripe I bought ...
hey bob as high as that thing sits you could have thrown some mudders under it!i like the stance,it makes the car
