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Aren't alloys expensive for what ever vehicle you are buying for? I wanted a full size spare wheel for my Kia Sorento. I was immediately worried when the guy from the local Kia garage suggest thet I might sit down before he told me the price! £500 for wheel and tyre! I managed to get the same style of E-Bay but with the tyre it still cost £200.

David

£100 each here with tyre,type in wheels

http://www.caravanbreakers.net/www.caravanbreakers.net/info.php?search=wheel&p=0&first=0&send.x=24&send.y=15

   They do make any van they are on look even nicer though!!

Try getting a replacement for an X-Trail.........£500 new for one from a nissan dealer...and thats without the tyre! Our Provence does have alloys but only because it came with them......they do look nice but I certainly wouldn't pay for them if they were a cost option!

you can not use car alloy wheels as caravan wheels are designed to take more weigh,look good too.

http://www.rimstock.co.uk/wheels.php?identity=wheels#

I'm not impressed with alloy wheels.  My new car came with them as standard throughout the range.  Mine are OE and not the dearest available as options, but come in at a whopping £300+ per rim.  These are rims that take a standard 195/65 R15 tyre.

A year or so later I saw the same model with steel rims. It was a hire car.  Our new van will have alloys.  Also being supplied with an Al-ko wheel lock, I will have to stick to exactly the same design rims.  And steel ones are out unless I go back to a Bulldog clamp.  Catch 22 really, because the Al-ko unit is compact and takes up less space.

Swings and roundabouts, eh!

Bertie.