hudson Wrote:
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> Carl S Wrote:
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> > I'm pretty sure that most Saabs and volvos
> use lug
> > bolts too.
> > Though volvo does help a little on the ones
> that
> > have the locating pin on the hub that mates
> with
> > the wheel.
>
> No Volvo I've ever owned. Granted the newest was
> 1972.
> I think Volvo stayed with studs/Nuts until FWD Volvos came ( as if those are real Volvos)
> "Pre-1988, SAAB used lugs and nuts for the 900/99
> with a lug pattern 4x114.3mm, or 4x4.5", 71mm
> centerbore The 9000 always used a bolt system with
> a lug pattern of 4x108mm, or 4x4.25" Post-1987
> [1988 model year], the 900 used the 9000
> hubs/brakes with bolts NG900, 9^3, 9^5 are all
> 5x110mm"
> SAAB used bolts until 99s came along. 92/93/95/96 and 97 (Sonnett) used bolts. Perhaps that's because the 92 was developed from the pre-war DKWs. The others keyed off the 92 platform. Not that they called it a platform 50 years ago.
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> Andrew McNally
> Hamilton ON
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