Robert's Ramblings

Ok, so who is the General and who is the young lady? Well in both cases you'd most likely be wrong and wrong! Well maybe the picture might just give a little clue!

For the last few months I have been fretting and imploring my Girlfriend to get new tyres for her 900S SAAB. The last straw came after realising she'd been driving around for a month on her spare because no tyre place would repair a flat tyre with bits of steel wire poking out from all directions! Being the typical male and a bit of a closet car enthusiast I decided to take matters into my own hands!

Hmm now, a set of decent tyres would set her back somewhere around six hundred for a new set of boring old R15 tyres to go on the OE steel rims. Ok, start shopping around for new rims! Ok, start shopping around for second hand rims due to severe financial constraints!! Oh, and make that a set of second hand rims with good tyres all for less than the cost of four new tyres. Ok, so now I had a goal! Why do we always turn the simplest of things into a challenge?

So, after much shopping around the prognosis was looking pretty grim. Does anyone ever part with SAAB wheels?? Ok, new angle, back to fundamentals and let's look at the actual dimensions of bore, PCD, width and diameter. Oh look, Opel/Vauxhaul use the same dimensions on late model Astras and Calibras. Hmm, interesting. .... Well you get the picture so to cut a long story short I found her a beautiful set of 16" Holden Astra alloy rims that fit just perfectly with good tyres to boot! There was even enough change left in the budget to pay for balancing, an alignment and even an evening out at a very nice restaurant!

So, the General's wheel's adorn the Lady's body and just like my Girlfriend, she's looking mighty fine indeed!!