16" Alpina's on ebay from the UK

These seem off to me. They are 20 spokes, which is good. Those aren't original alpina center plates. The softlines have a lock on the plate and the hole is quite a bit bigger. Those have a stainless hex nut.

Also, every ET11 alpina wheel that I have seen has at least an inch of lip, whereas these have none. They look more like ET35. Think about it this way, the one inch difference that I mentioned equates to 25mm. If you took a 7" wheel and changed it from ET35 to ET11, you would be moving the wheel center over 24mm outwards, about an inch. That gives you a 1" lip.


ET35:
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Stan said:
Is it me or is the black center painted wrong?
I think the diameter of the black should extend further out.
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Softlines wheels weren't painted black in the center. This person just painted them that way. I did the same with my Alpinas when I sold them. There is a natural stoping point, which is a lip that overhangs the lug area. It is the lip that the center plate lock and tabs grab onto.
 
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They are not the classic open lug Alpinas they are soft lines dressed as open lug. Not nice IMO, and not showing on the EBay UK site.
 
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These are E36 Alpinas - they have the wrong offset for E9s. These should also have caps - the strange centre is due to the extra ridge to locate the caps.

These could be used with spacers, however the dish looks wrong.

Rod
 
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