Discounttiredirect.com?
J-Ri
04-05-2009, 05:22 AM
Anyone ever dealt with them? I found their site by searching for wheels, never heard of them. Any great or horrible experiences?
I also have a unique situation, I need dual bolt pattern wheels because I'll be doing a front brake/suspension conversion that will leave me with different bolt patterns front and rear. So I need wheels with 5x100 and 5x115 holes. I found two (or probably the same one) at discounttiredirect.com. The thing is, they're 5x100 and 5x114.4 on my '04 cavalier, but they're 5x115 and 5x100 on the "donor car" ('04 Malibu, which I originally searched for)
Cavalier http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/searchWheelsByVehicleAndSize.do?bp=&yr=2004&wd=17&rw=&vid=007499
Malibu http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/findWheelDetail.do?bp=5-115&yr=2004&pc=71601&counter=9&wd=17&rw=7&vid=008464
Everything except the 114.4 or 115 is the same... I'm thinking it is probably actually 114.4 for three reasons.
1) Most of the dual patterns I've seen are 5x100 and 5x114.3 (only .1mm off)
2) Why would the manufacturer make two dual pattern wheels that are identical and have them share a pattern? The real purpose of dual patterns is to make the same wheel fit twice as many cars, right?
3) If one is actually 5x100 and 5x115, then it should be listed for both cars.
What do you all think? I'm not even going to ask them because I'm sure they'll say they're two different parts since they're listed differently.
Anyone know where I can get 5x100 and 5x115 on the same wheel? Either 16 or 17 inch. I'm not using 114.9mm holes, so please nobody point out that 114.4 is really close to 115 and they should work and your friend and his cousin did it with no problems (and I do know it would probably be fine). 114.4 is not equal to 115, they're not going on my car unless it is the absolute last option. Thanks for any help.
I also have a unique situation, I need dual bolt pattern wheels because I'll be doing a front brake/suspension conversion that will leave me with different bolt patterns front and rear. So I need wheels with 5x100 and 5x115 holes. I found two (or probably the same one) at discounttiredirect.com. The thing is, they're 5x100 and 5x114.4 on my '04 cavalier, but they're 5x115 and 5x100 on the "donor car" ('04 Malibu, which I originally searched for)
Cavalier http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/searchWheelsByVehicleAndSize.do?bp=&yr=2004&wd=17&rw=&vid=007499
Malibu http://www.discounttiredirect.com/direct/findWheelDetail.do?bp=5-115&yr=2004&pc=71601&counter=9&wd=17&rw=7&vid=008464
Everything except the 114.4 or 115 is the same... I'm thinking it is probably actually 114.4 for three reasons.
1) Most of the dual patterns I've seen are 5x100 and 5x114.3 (only .1mm off)
2) Why would the manufacturer make two dual pattern wheels that are identical and have them share a pattern? The real purpose of dual patterns is to make the same wheel fit twice as many cars, right?
3) If one is actually 5x100 and 5x115, then it should be listed for both cars.
What do you all think? I'm not even going to ask them because I'm sure they'll say they're two different parts since they're listed differently.
Anyone know where I can get 5x100 and 5x115 on the same wheel? Either 16 or 17 inch. I'm not using 114.9mm holes, so please nobody point out that 114.4 is really close to 115 and they should work and your friend and his cousin did it with no problems (and I do know it would probably be fine). 114.4 is not equal to 115, they're not going on my car unless it is the absolute last option. Thanks for any help.
CapriRacer
04-05-2009, 08:21 AM
Discount Tire Direct is the mail order arm of Discount Tire. They have over 700 stores throughout the US, but in California, they use the "America's Tire" label due to a name conflict with an existing company.
While my expertise is tires, my engineering background says that using bolt circles that are "close" is not a good practice - and may, in fact, lead to a wheel failure. So I think your idea of not using "close" is right on point - except for the part about "absolute last option". I wouldn't use them at all!
But looking at the links: The wheels are NOT identical - one has a 100/114 bolt pattern and the other has a 110/115 bolt pattern.
Frankly, I think you need to rethink your project. Either arrange for the bolt patterns to be the same - or - have different rims.
While my expertise is tires, my engineering background says that using bolt circles that are "close" is not a good practice - and may, in fact, lead to a wheel failure. So I think your idea of not using "close" is right on point - except for the part about "absolute last option". I wouldn't use them at all!
But looking at the links: The wheels are NOT identical - one has a 100/114 bolt pattern and the other has a 110/115 bolt pattern.
Frankly, I think you need to rethink your project. Either arrange for the bolt patterns to be the same - or - have different rims.
J-Ri
04-05-2009, 08:16 PM
The reason I think they're identical is that if one is actually 100/115, then it would show up for both cars. It shows the same model wheel for both, but on the cavalier (which is 100mm), it shows the other number as 114. My thought is that it's listed as 115 for the Malibu because they want to sell 4 more wheels, and more than likely they won't kill someone by lying about 1mm. If nobody knows of a true 100/115 wheel, I will probably end up having two different wheels.
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