How To Tell What Hubs My Car Has ?

[Guest 309gtitwn]

as titel realy is there any way too tell wat size hubs my cars has got as im planning a brake up grade and need to know if i need to get 1.9gti hubs aswell as im told this is the hubs i need 4 most upgrades

Edited September 16, 2007 by pugtorque

[clifton 0]

what is your car? 1.6 gti? base model?

[Guest 309gtitwn]

gentry but has had a 1.9td engine fitted and this is wat is making me think it may have diffrent hubs or saying that wat hubs did the gentry come with std ?

 

cheers

Edited September 16, 2007 by 309gtitwn

[johno_78 2]

IIRC the gentry uses the 1.6 gti running gear. Does the rear brakes use discs or drums?

[pug_ham 245 3 Cars]

Have a look at your huibs with a wheel off, if it has a notch in the ring around where the hubnut is inside you have 1.9 hubs, if its solid they are either 1.6 GTi or base model hubs.

 

Have a look at this picture to clarify what I mean

 

The UK auto's have base model hubs fitted so your's might be the same.

 

Graham.

[Guest 309gtitwn]

cheers looks like ive got 1.6 gti hubs then... looks like im going to have to put 1.9 hubs on the shoping list...

 

now for the next question if i want to put 309 wishbones on wat model do i need them off or do i just get gti wishbones and shafts ?

 

cheers

[Anthony 1,003]

As far as I'm aware, Gentry's use base model hubs, 1.6 driveshafts, 1.6 calipers, and 1.9 disks - the same setup STDT's run.

 

If that's correct, then any brake upgrades that fit a 1.9 GTi (306 GTi-6, 307 etc) will also fit your hubs - it's only 1.6 hubs they don't fit.

 

If you can get a picture of the brake disk then it's easy enough to tell whether you're running base model or 1.6 hubs, as the offset on the disks is totally different....