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Old 03-25-2003, 09:45 AM
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Baja wheels on the SVX

A friend at work just picked up a new Baja yesterday. It really is a gorgeous car/truck. Anyway, I found the wheels to be very nice looking and on closer inspection I found that they are 16" diameter with 225/60 tires on them. It seems to me they would be an easy swap to put on the SVX and would look loads better than the stock SVX rims (much more open). Does anyone have access to the specs and would they be a straight swap out for our factory rims?

I also noticed that the Black pearl paint on his Baja is identical to the Black Pearl on my 92. Same red metal flakes and all. It really is a sweet ride!
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baja uses a 5x100 pattern
as do all other modern subarus 5x100 et53 (i think that's the right offset)
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Old 03-25-2003, 10:01 AM
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baja uses a 5x100 pattern
as do all other modern subarus 5x100 et53 (i think that's the right offset)
If you're right then none of them will fit as ours use a 5x104 if I recall correctly. :-(
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i thought that the svx was 114.3....
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Old 03-25-2003, 10:18 AM
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i thought that the svx was 114.3....
You know what? I think you are correct, sir.

I would like to see a folks here add to a list of what wheels from other cars will fit on our SVX. Picking up a set of used rims would be lots cheaper than buying new. Did I hear correctly that some Mitsubishi rims would fit (including some 17" models)?
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Old 03-25-2003, 10:22 AM
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the svx appears to be much more wheel friendly than the impreza, it will actually take lower offsets than the imrezza, and all other subarus for that matter, and just about every manuf makes wheels w/ a bolt pattern of 5x114.3
i'm looking into a lightweight set of rota attacks, rota makes good wheels, and they're light, and decently strong, for cast wheels.

i've wanted the attacks for quite a while, and while they are a knockoff of the volk gram lights, spending 2000 on a set of volk's is not quite my first choice.

almost every wheel rota makes comes in a 5x114.3 w/ at least a +43 offset which i'm told fits w/o rubbing just fine.
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