Wheel bolt specs?

Does anyone here know if the wheel stud pattern remained the same for Suby hubs since ' 99? We have a '99 Forester which is about to be retired but would like to retain the WRX alloy rims we use for our summer boots in order to use them on a 2009 Forester we're about to acquire. Both are 5-stud,

16" but I'm not sure the stud spacing is the same. Thanks, KH
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Kevin Hall
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Does "retired" mean sold off? If not and you're keeping the 99 Forester, why wouldn't you leave its wheels & tires on it? Or are you thinking of putting it on blocks or jacks and taking off its current wheels (and tires) to put onto the 09 Forester?

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The Forester has the same 5x3.94 (5x100) spacing as my old 92 Subaru Legacy although the standard wheel size for my Legacy (14x6) is smaller than for the Forester (15x16.5). You can't use the wheels from a WRX

*STI* model because it has 5x4.5 stud spacing.
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VanguardLH

I'm pretty sure they have remained at 5x100 spacing for ages. Most Japanese cars use this spacing. The 2009 Forester might have the same stud spacing, but does it have the same wheel and tire combo?

Yousuf Khan

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Yousuf Khan

Thanks. Confirmed today that the bolt pattern remains 5 x 100mm. Our '99 Forester came on pressed steel 15" wheels with relatively high aspect ratio tires. The 16" WRX alloys that we bought for its' summer boots were fine with suitably lower aspect ratio tires to give the same overall circumference and so retain the same effective gear ratios. The Canadian '

09 Forester comes stock with 16" wheels so as long as my new summer tires are the same aspect ratio the old WRX alloys will indeed do the job.

Living where we do it makes sense to have two sets of rims, one with good summer tires and one set ( usually pressed steel rather than alloys) shod with good, aggresive snows. It's much easier to then switch from one to the other in the appropriate seasons and keep our alloys in good shape without the inevitable pitting from road salt. Much kinder to rims and tires as well if you're not prying the tires off and sticking others on twice a year.

We're 100 miles from a Suby dealer and I was having trouble confirming that the bolt pattern was the same on both old and newer hubs.

KH

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Kevin Hall

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