Wheels

Well I found some new wheels but not sure if they will fit the Monte They are from an Alero.  The guy has 6 total rims and said to make him an offer or he will SCRAP them.  What are they worth and will they fit?
 

the first thing i would ask is what kind of car did they come off of. If they were a Front wheel drive car you have a chance. but if not then no dice.
It took me almost a full day of runnig around to find some in town. But this is not to say you cant in your town just here seems to be out of stock for everything  or has to be orderd.
 
think it is thier favort saying "I CAN ORDER IT FOR YA! Just give me the money down"
 
I paid 1400.00 for mine with rims and tires and lugs and locks, balanced and mounted and also put on the car.
Figured i had gotten a pretty decent deal cant say it was the best but not the worse i have heard of.
Mine were brand new never mounted.
 
Oh and they are 18's on mine.
SO this give you a clue on where to start guessing. But if he is going to scrap them i would give him 200.00 for the set.
Or just tell him how about 200.00 for the set and see if he says 250.00 find out how he counters ya.
But remeber they might not fit.
 
Can you touch them see them mount one under the car to see if they will fit on the montes?
If not i would defently not go to high. you might get them and they will all be scratched or bent.
seems funy for some one to scrap a set of good wheels when they will get pretty much nothign for them if not nothign at all.

Here is the ad for the wheels. He is just a few miles from the house.  http://detroit.craigslist.org/pts/595857959.html
 
 

i would defently go look then and find out if they fit you dont have to bolt them down just make sure they will fit on there with out scraping on the hub,brake caliper, and if you have a tire on it if they will rub.
 
If you know someoen in a tire shop see if they can give you the back spacing for your car and his that they come off of . they have a book for this im sure an dit is a matter of looking it up.
But if they fit and the price is right i would take them homee with me.

I will send the guy an e-mail and go from there. Thanks for the advice.
 
Mike

no prob. the biggest thing is if it is a front wheel drive car or not.

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ORIGINAL: Sir Monte

Here is the ad for the wheels. He is just a few miles from the house.  http://detroit.craigslist.org/pts/595857959.html

He states they're off an Alero, 5 x 115, same as Monte, offset and all.

if there truely off an alero there should be no problems at all

Isn't the Alero Oldsmobile's "Cavalier" version.

You know, you just might have something there.

if they have the same off set i would own them.
if they are steel or even chrome you might be abel to ge tthem buffed up and take any curb rash off of them that he also mentioned.
I have done that with aset of old crager wheels took them in and had them redone they looked great on the old monte. and when i got them they had no chrome left on them lol
 

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ORIGINAL: SolaraSlayer

Isn't the Alero Oldsmobile's "Cavalier" version.

The Alero is a tiny little thing like the Cavalier but the Alero is 5 x 115 not 5 x 100 like the Cavalier, off set is the same but not the pcd.

Wheelguy,will the wheels from a Grand Am fit, I have a concern with offset.  Here are the wheels.

 

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ORIGINAL: Sir Monte

Wheelguy,will the wheels from a Grand Am fit, I have a concern with offset.  Here are the wheels.

If this wheel is off a PRE 99 Grand Am they will not work. It's hard to tell from the picture but it kinda looks like an old RWD wheel & if that's the case then they will not.

These came off a 2003 Grand Am if that helps.  I can get them for $100

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ORIGINAL: Sir Monte

These came off a 2003 Grand Am if that helps.  I can get them for $100

If they are 16" or bigger and your Monte is FWD you are good to go, not sure if 15" would hit the calipers.

Got all 4 for $75 with center caps.

I like the way those grand am wheels look more than the alero's.

The Alero is the Oldsmobile cousin to the Pontiac Grand Am.  Both cars share the same frame, unibody, drive train, the whole works.  Except for differences in interior, headlights, tail lights, etc...

The Alero is larger than the Cavalier/Cobalt.  The wheels should physically fit, but may look odd to anyone who knows where they came from.  The Alero wheels should look good with no problem.  I agree the Grand Am wheels look sportier, but they're more popular and more recognizable as grand am wheels.  You would probably get a lot of people noticing you have grand am wheels on your Monte.  Kinda like putting Corvette wheels on a Mustang (I know they won't fit, but you get the idea).

If you haven't found out by now.  Let me give you a heads up.  The Alero and Grand Am are not real chrome.  They are a standard aluminum rim (in the exact same shape of course), with a chrome colored piece of plastic glued on top.

I found this out the hard way, first hand.  When I bought my '99 grand am gt brand new, the sticker listed the "optional chrome GT-specific" wheels as being a $450 option from the standard GT wheels.  The standard GT wheels was the same thing, just in a brushed aluminum finish.  It was a few months later when I poked my head under the car and looked at the back of the rim, that I noticed my $450 went toward glue-ing 4 pieces of chrome-colored plastic onto the standard GT wheel. 

Yeah, I felt screwed.  Complained to the dealership and GM.  Apparantly so did many others too.  The next model year, GM changed the description of the wheels.  They gave them a copyrighted name of "chrome-tech" wheels.  Fancy word for "chrome colored piece of plastic worth $1.50".

 
Wish I would have read this thread sooner.  I would have told you to save up your money and get some similar wheels that are real chrome.

By all means they are not perfect.  My wife has a 2002 Grand Am with only 23000 miles and she likes the rims as long as I can get the cleaned up.  They were only $75 so the price was right.. As for the inserts I knew that with her wheels she has now.  I need a good wheel cleaner to clean these as you can see by the pics. These wheels are what I call 20 footer meaning they look great at 20 feet.

The ad says he's going to scrap them. Buy them for scrap; them. Offer the dude 50-Bucks ... take it or leave it ... and leave your number.

they used to have someone otu there that advertised they could reseal the wheels if you were to clean them up real nice and prudy then you could do this and it would help keep them clean. other wise FLITZ is the best stuff i have seen for aluminum and chrome.
 
also if the center caps have the stickers on them with the pontiac symbol go to the G.M. dealer and get some with bow ties im not sure what years had them btu i belive they were the same size.
I did it with my old nova it had GMC sonoma wheels under it but i had changed them out with the bow ties on them but it was a easy fix the S-10 had them.
But might be a cavilier thing to

I used some spray-on wheel cleaner on my grand am's rims.  The kind you spray-on and let sit for one minute then hose off.  I used a rag while hosing off the wheel to help get the brake dust and other crud from the tight spaces.  They didn't come out 100%, but they were at least 98%.  Only some small black spots in the tight spots were baked into the plastic.
 
They do look good.  As long as you're alright with the fact they're not real chrome.  Sounds like you didn't pay the premium price of a real chrome rim.  If that was the case with me, I would have been fine with it.  But they charged me an extra $450and told me I was getting chrome rims.  So I was really p***ed off.  But I did like how they looked.

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