Dolomite Alloy Wheel Specs

[SprintV8]

That's the other side of London to me, easier to go to Sussex where the Revolution Factory is.

Revolution Wheels used to be on the same Industrial Estate I worked at in Hackbridge Surrey.

They recently moved to new premises in 2015 to Sherwood Energy Village in Nottinghamshire,

Not sure where they went in between.

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So Steve, I think I'll be ok then with the 14"? Might try a slightly less et to be on the safe side, say ET25?

You need to go, if possible, to a slightly higher ET, ideally, I reckon around ET30.

The original Sprint ET is 35 despite other claims on this thread. If you are running the same rim width (5.5) as the original wheels then you need to run approximately the same ET too. But I know a lot of aftermarket wheel makers don't work up the Sprint's rather extreme +35. But the lower the number, the further OUT the wheels sit. This is great in one way since it increases track and gives greater stability. Unfortunately the standard rear arch doesn't leave much room to exploit this! Which is the problem i've got with the rear arches on the Dolomega.

The ET on the MGF 15s is about 22, but they are 6" wide and that extra half inch has to go mostly inboard, but not too much or the tyres will hit the INNER arch, my 195/50s on the Carledo are as close to the inner arch as they are to the rolled outer arch, ie very close indeed!

Steve

I concur re Dolomite Sprint 5.5 x 13 inch wheels' offset being 35 mm. I deduced this by measurement & calculation on the substitute Dolomite Sprint wheels for my 1974 Triumph Toledo 1300 "HL Special", onto which I swopped my existing Firestone 211, 185/70 R13 tyres, with which I experienced NO interference / rubbing problems in the rear wheel arches. However, my previous set of Cosmic 5.5 x 13 inch wheels with 21 mm offset, and the same Firestone 211, 185/70 R13 tyres, did incur these problems when the rear of the vehicle was heavily laden.

My future replacement wheels & tyres will be MG Maestro 5.5 x 15 inch cross-lattice style alloy wheels, having 31 mm offset, with either 185/65 R15, 185/60 R15 or 185/55 R15 tyres; preferably with a T or lower speed rating, for lower rolling resistance.

The MG Maestro 5.5 x 15 inch wheels with 31 mm offset or MG Montego 6 x 15 inch wheels with 28 mm offset, should be better suited to the Triumph Toledo & Dolomite than the MG F & MG TF 6 x 15 inch wheels with "circa 22 mm" offset.