DOES SIZE MATTER?

[crimp]

OK, the wheels are like the ones in your picture and I found 2 different no.s in the area you said to look.
      192ET33  and  KBA40589

The brakes fit fine.  

[Gambit]

just read the size of the tyres on the wheels

they'll ether most likely say 185/55r15 or 195/50r15

the r15 relates to the rim size, 15 being 15inch

[crimp]

The size of the tyre is 185/60/14

[Gambit]

then for some bizarre reason you have 14 inchers on yours

ill check n see can you run the 256mm brakes on 14's, i was always under the impression u needed 15's because of clearance issues

you might have a set of 8v 239mm brakes on it

[Gambit]

u can run 256mm under 14's

its the 280mm u need 15's for

must look a bit weird though on wee 14's with the big bumpers etc

[GTi5]

The geezer that owned the car before could have had some nicer wheels one which he funded by selling the 15' bbs's. He'll took the nice wheels off again and just banged on anything to sell it. I've done that before.

[crimp]

I checked the brakes and they are 256mm.
The wee 14 inchers DONT  look weird at all. It took 6 months to notice they were wee.

[modulater]

It would appear that you haven't got original wheels on your car.

I searched that part number you listed on ETKA and its not finding it.

I just wanted to know out of interest as I have never heard of 14 inch BBS wheels being fitted on a V dub,

The only size I know of smaller than the 6J X 15 are the ones fitted to the polo G40 but these are 5.5 X 13.

I do remember a lot of the vauxhalls had BBS wheels as an option around this time and they would fit the same pcd as the golf so it might be an idea to pop in with your part number to see if they have them listed on the parts computer.

As long as nothing rubs and on 256mm brakes it wont as long as your not throwing the ET out then stick with them.

Be interesting if anyone knows where they're from, I know I am intrigued.

[crimp]

When i tried to get locking wheel nuts, the standard  
V W ones where to short, in the end i got Mercedes
ones , which had a thread length of 40mm.
Even though they are 14' they still look good on the car.

[GTi5]

i just found some one selling a 14' bbs which included the vw centre caps. He said it was from a small bumper '88 Gti. There was a pic but dont know how to insert them.