"New" member - P10 Hatchback 14" wheels
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Topic: "New" member - P10 Hatchback 14" wheels
Posted By: albmag_pt
Subject: "New" member - P10 Hatchback 14" wheels
Date Posted: 30 Jun 2018 at 10:18pm
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Hello to all and thank you for this great forum. I'm now the proudly guardian of a 1992 P10 1.6 Hatchback, that was bought new by my father and never left the family. I'm now preparing to make a full restoration of the car and have some questions regarding its wheels that I hope one of there forum several "Suntherland" specialists from the early days can answer (and yes, the car still has the "OK Sutherland sticker" on the passenger side rear window): 1. The car was sold new with 14" aluminum wheels (5-braces, central cover with allen-key bolt) that have the Nissan logo and "NISSAN by Fondmetal" text casted. Would this be wheels fitted in the paint, or where just an optional OEM wheels installed at the dealers? 2. If any 14" wheels were part of the factory equipment of a 1992 1.6 P10 (or a 2.0), which tyres would it leave the plant with (brand/model/dimension)? The current set of tyres are 195/60R14 from Continental, but with 160.000 km and looking at the files, I estimate its the 6th set of tyres, and the majority of its life was running Goodyear's! Thank in in advance for any info on this subject you be able to provide me.
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Posted By: **See Admin**
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 11:57am
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Welcome along. The guy who could answer these best is the P10 guru Sprint. What he doesn't know about P10's isn't worth knowing ------------- |
Posted By: essNchill
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 1:28pm
Or Borja, who has every single P10 Reference Material known to mankind :)
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naughtynorm wrote:Posted By: ragt20
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 1:52pm
and probably some Nissan don't know themselves..  ------------- FAO : Laurens, I am not Shaun. FAO : bavs83, I am not Tan. VZR-CHECK, VZR-N1-CHECK, P11 VE-CHECK, P12 20V-CHECK, XTRAIL VET-CHECK |
Posted By: schwen
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 1:59pm
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The tires in 90, 91 and I think 1992 too, were: 165/70/13T Continental Contact.(L,LS,LX,SLX,LSX 1.6/Diesel) 185/65/14H Continental Super Contact.(SLX,GSX 2.0 Singlepoint) 195/60/14V Michelin MXV2. (eGT) The alloys you have were always optional, they were offered in two colour versions. The more common in 100% silver and the super rare two tone gunmetal + silver. I can scan brochures or tell you part numbers if u need them Cheers ------------- P10 Army - G20.net MOTM April ´09 - NPOC.co.uk COTM April ´11 |
Posted By: chris3438
Date Posted: 01 Jul 2018 at 6:01pm
| My 1991 GSX came from the factory with 195/60/R14 rims using Michelin MX2 tyres (I still have the completely unused spare!) |
Posted By: schwen
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 9:38am
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Well I think I might found the answer, Chris. Please take a look at this UKDM brochure, when in the main graphics there is advetised a 185/65/14 tire for the SGX, at the top of the page, in a small sticker, Nissan announced a 195/60/14 for that spec...never noticed that until I was thinking about your comment yesterday night. https://ibb.co/mpfhuy" rel="nofollow">  ------------- P10 Army - G20.net MOTM April ´09 - NPOC.co.uk COTM April ´11 |
Posted By: schwen
Date Posted: 02 Jul 2018 at 9:41am
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This is the brochure where the rare fondmetal two tone is advertised, never saw one in my life but heard that was sold a set in the north of Spain. https://ibb.co/m7OJZy" rel="nofollow">  ------------- P10 Army - G20.net MOTM April ´09 - NPOC.co.uk COTM April ´11 |
Posted By: albmag_pt
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 1:28am
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Good evening Schwen, Thanks a lot for the info. I really wanted it just to make sure that these were not an "seller" updating to non period Primera P10 set of wheels, and make sure are worth the full restauration. Thanks a lot also for the tyres info. Since I now will need to put 4 new ones, your info is very useful to try to find the right ones. 185/65/14H Continental Super Contact fit exactly to the description my father told that was made when he bought the car: despite being a 1.6 SLX, the wheels are the 14" from the 2.0 SLX (non eGT). Info for record of the part numbers, and scan of wheel brochure would be great!  But no urgency of any kind. Cheers,
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Posted By: albmag_pt
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 1:37am
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GREAT. Thanks a lot for the info. I was looking at the Portuguese homologation document, and it really states there 195/60R14. Then went to the car to check it, and that's the tires size he has mounted... On your catalogue, my wheels are the ones on the top left corner. Fully silver. No question. (I remember in my youth of seeing the rare Antracite ones in my town, but in a same period Nissan 100NX, also red like mine!) Cheers,
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Posted By: schwen
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 8:15am
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About the «homologation documents» in the different countries, nothing to say. 185/65/14 and 195/60/14 are equivalent because they are in the +/— 3% diameter, so each country might write in their papers what they want. Nissan never fitted the 195/60/14 in a 1.6 For example the homologation papers in Spain have a lot of mistakes, and all the 2.0SLX have the nissan code of the 2.0 SGX... ------------- P10 Army - G20.net MOTM April ´09 - NPOC.co.uk COTM April ´11 |
Posted By: albmag_pt
Date Posted: 03 Jul 2018 at 10:01pm
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I think that the homologation office (or Nissan PT) was lazy in the homologation. When looking at your data provided from the UK catalogue it seems 195/60R14 is the size of the 2.0 eGT, wheels. I need to check, but I think that in Portugal the eGT was the only 2.0 litre version sold! It would make sense since in early 90's the taxation in PT was purely based on engine size and was so high and "exponential" from 1350 cc onwards, that at the time just commercialising the 2.0 eGT would make sense (the price diference to the "regular 2.0 SLX" would be too small to justify it). |
Posted By: schwen
Date Posted: 04 Jul 2018 at 7:45am
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Yes I also have a BMW E30 and I've read a lot of times that the 318is and 320is E30 were created thinking in the Portuguese laws and taxes, trying to offer a lot HP with little engines...at least we all bennefit of that stupid taxes! ------------- P10 Army - G20.net MOTM April ´09 - NPOC.co.uk COTM April ´11 |