Revolution Alloy Wheels and a small Corsa

30th June 2005.
My Ebay luck was holding out I had won my tyres and wheels for £205.00 for the complete set. I rang Ben in the morning and arranged to pick him up on the way as we where going to head into central London and with the cash I was carrying I wanted to be sure I was not going to be robbed. The journey into London was quite good and we arrived outside the seller’s block of flats and rang the door entry system corresponding to the flat. A young man came down and said he had the wheels in his garage loaded in the car and would bring them round. The car came around and he unloaded them off the Car.

They where perfect! I new the minute I saw them they were just what I had visualized and asked him about them. He said that he was once going to build a Beach buggy for his partner but had decided to build her something different so he was selling them. I agreed to purchase them and with Bens help we squeezed them into the back of my Vauxhall Corsa. They only just fitted. We soon where on the way home and made good progress returning home at around 9:00pm.

I wanted to try them so we off loaded the car and I went out for beer and Ben started to fit the new wheels onto the Chassis. They had come with some rear spacers to space the rear wheels further out by 1 1/2".

The wheels bolted on with the bolts he had given us, but we had already known one of the front bolts was missing. This was to turn into a long search to find a replacement that eventually ended in me having to have one made out of stainless steel at a local engineering company. The pictures where taken on a mobile phone so are not very high quality.

Wheels Technical:
Revolution 14 3A Red HR - 5 spoke painted.
tyres : front : BF Goodrich all-terrain, 215/75x14.
rear : BF Goodrich all-terrain, 265/50x15.