I've had some garaged Volvo 240 wheels up on Craigslist, but nobody seems to want them. (The new owner of my old 240 never came to claim them, and has since sold the car himself.)
I hate to discard them if they could be of some use to someone.
Hi Scott,
I have a similar problem..... Two Volvo 240 rims have been advertised for sale for several weeks with few bites and mine have good snow tires. Some prospective customers have asked if I have the other two.....
I have a theory.................... Most cars on the road now are Front Wheel Drive, and owners nowadays are wise to the idea that with FWD, snow tires should be on all four wheels. If they're looking for spare rims for snow tires they want four.
I have another theory........ If you and I got together we might have better luck. Trouble is, I'm on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada.......................
Good Luck anyway. Andy I.
Coincidentally I have some Volvo steel rims with worn tires I've been trying to give away for quite some time. There's just not much demand for 14" steel rims, most of the millions of 240s made came with them so the valuable rims are the alloys people are looking for which then leaves them with spare steelies too.
If you were in the Seattle area I'd be interested in the rims with the snow tires though.
I have always run snows on all 4, even RWD 240s.
And, I have 6 rims total, so maybe your 2 would make 8! :)
Thanks, Andy.
"Andy" wrote in news:8hu2n.16617$ snipped-for-privacy@newsfe17.iad:
I have 7 x 240 rims in my garage. 4 with tyres and 3 without. I had 4 without tyres originally ( they came in the boot [trunk in USA ] of one of the 240's when I bought it ) but I needed one when one of my 240's developed a leak at the tyre bead due to corrosion of the wheel. Weighed the leaking rim in with some scrap.
The 4 with tyres I will keep, they were removed from one 240 when I got some alloys. When I sell that car the steels will go back on and I'll use the alloys on, probably another 240.
They don't half take up space though, a nice tall tower.
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