Thanks

I was wondering the same thing. I want two things from my S60R.

1) Maximum comfort (I am sensible most of the time)

2) Maximum Stealth (you tend to be noticed more then when I was in my S40 T4 with steel rims! .)

Shame. Would have loved to have achieved both. Now I’m looking for basic design 17″ alloys to make the car look normal. The only other option would be to fit on smaller discs, but err…

I couldn’t believe how easy it was.

Sal

In the last few days through, it has started acting up again. Figuring my luck had run out, and finally having some free time, I decided to get-er-done.

I basically followed this tutorial, but went in to the job prepared to drill out the shear bolts. At first I tried using some screw extraction bits, but I stripped out the screws with the extractor, probably form overtorque from my 1/2 inch drill.

Used a right angle drill adapter with my drills, none of which could line up properly by themselves due to the overhang of the dash. The adapter was 20 bucks at Home Depot.

Some other observations/lessons learned:

You need a very short right angle Torx key for the airbag clock spring screws due to a lack of clearance behind the steering wheel if it is left in place as recommended by this tutorial. Not to bad coming out, but were really tough to get started going back in. I had to use some small needle nose pliers to slowly rotate the head on the inboard screw until I was finally able to get my right angle Torx key in there. A very tiny Torx ratchet would be just the thing for these, but I could not fine one small enough.

The two holes for the ignition switch retainer screws on the new cylinder carrier casting had not been tapped. When I first saw this, I thought I was in trouble. However, the screws I removed from the original casting had self tapping threads and went in to the new casting just fine. The casting metal (pot metal) is very soft, and tapped easily. It also drilled out easily when I was drilling out the two shear bolts.

A 3/8″ cold chisel was helpful in breaking the two halves of the original casting apart and getting the last bits of the shear bolts out. I was amazed at how easily it would bite into the soft pot metal of the castings. At first I thought the castings were made of aluminum, but the drill chips were magnetic!