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When I bought my son's saab (95 900s) it had 4 alloys, 2 of which were not round. It also came with an old set of snows mounted on a set of real rusty steel wheels, which were OEM. It also came with a set of saab hubcaps. I ended up dumping the steel oem wheels and tires because they were rusted thru and the tires were shot, so I bought a set of aftermarket steel wheels from eEuroparts to put my summer tires on (straight and smooth was the major goal here). The aftermarket wheels had the same offset and width as the OEM wheels and fit like a glove (and work very well in terms of smoothness, etc). The downside is that the saab hubcaps do NOT fit. The inner lip of the rim is just a whisker smaller than the OEM ones, so the metal ring in the hubcap won't fit right. So I had to dump the saab hubcaps for something else.
Bottom line - aftermarket rim will work fine and match the others, but the hubcap may be an issue.
andy
fyi - in trying to find a decent looking set of hubcaps, and to insure they'd fit these rims, I ended up trying a set of aftermarket hubcaps I found on ebay that they advertise as "anti-theft". The difference is that these hubcaps have 5 clips that look just like wheel-weight clips. They snap on the wheels and fit straight and flush. But when you want to remove the hubcaps, you have to jack the wheel up first and put a screwdriver along all 5 clips to get it to come off. When the tire is on the ground, you can't get a screwdriver on the lower clips with the bow of the tire. Look good, were cheap ($20 for the set) - we'll see how they do!
andy
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