factory wheels

[alan6272]

check what wheels your car came with? As in my 83 did they come with fuchs or cookies. Or maybe it was optional and not by the vin number? Thanx

[J1NX3D]

iirc cookie cutters were stock for early cars, phone dials were stock for late cars. Fuchs were optional for both. VIN doesnt matter.

[9FF]

Early cars Fuchs were standard all others were options. Late cars phone dials were standard all others were options.

[kens_74_911s]

Some of the early cars cane with the 21mm spacers and longer studs in the rear with the cookie cutters. The one car I had that came that way also had the LSD trans option. In the rear 15x7 et 23 does not fill it out the fenders as well unless the spacers are run. The 15x8 Fuchs are et 10.6 so you pick up outward spacing from with width increase as well as et. ( approx 7/8 ") is what rim lip would be spaced out VS 15x7 cookie with no spacer.

[Dantilla]

The article pictured above does not mention Cookie Cutters, which were the standard wheel from 1983-1986.
15 x 7 on all four corners. Optional wheels were Fuchs, 15 x 7 in front, 15 x 8 in the rear, but still with 215/60/15 tires on all four.

[alan6272]

ken, my car does have the longer studs and spacers on the rear. so unless someone changed the studs and added spacers, it must have come with cookies?

[alan6272]

oh yea also the sticker on the car says 215/60/15 tires size

[jcommin]

Originally Posted by alan6272

check what wheels your car came with? As in my 83 did they come with fuchs or cookies. Or maybe it was optional and not by the vin number? Thanx

Cookie cutters standard,Fuchs optional for 1983.

[9FF]

Cookie cutters standard,Fuchs optional for 1983.

The article pictured above does not mention Cookie Cutters, which were the standard wheel from 1983-1986.

15 x 7 on all four corners. Optional wheels were Fuchs, 15 x 7 in front, 15 x 8 in the rear, but still with 215/60/15 tires on all four.

Yep, I think that article I posted is wrong also. When they say Fuchs they mean "cookie cutter" when they say forged they mean Fuchs.

To the poster who tried to put 7in et23 Fuchs on the back, the Fuchs were staggered, the 7in et23 goes to the front, the 8in et10 at the back. The rear wheel spacers were only needed on the early cars with the steel arms at the back.

Note: Article was from Peter Morgans book on the 924/44/68 cars.

[kens_74_911s]

Interesting i always thought the early steel arms and the early 85.5-86 alum arms had the same et setup .

[9FF]

Interesting i always thought the early steel arms and the early 85.5-86 alum arms had the same et setup .

The later alu arms never came from the factory with spacers at the rear, the steel ones did.

[kens_74_911s]

This makes sense I have sold some 5 lug parts for 924 guys and have had them come back needing the longer CV shafts so suspect during this evolution early Porsche solution was spacers evolving to alum. arms ( 85.5) that eliminates the spacers. This also changed to needing longer CV shafts.