[rgledhill]

Just in case anyone was planning on rotating or swapping the wheels front to back... you can't. Inside the hub cover, each rim is clearly marked "Front" or "Rear". This is because of the clearance needed over the PP Brembo brakes, it seems...

at 2:51 onwards...

 

[hedwri]

Nope. Different on the non-PP also.

 

[S1m0nc]

That's quite annoying. I've a few other niggles now too. I feel a thread coming on....

 

[ProfessorCook]

Why is it annoying?

Caution! It's easy to get me ranting about the pointlessness of tire rotation.

 

[krheinwald]

Caution! It's easy to get me ranting about the pointlessness of tire rotation.

Especially on an AWD...

 

[PolestarMG]

I don’t like admitting this but the thing that’s bothering me the most is the serif typeface. I thought a designer was running this show, how about a little consistency.

 

[Asgardian]

My Lexus IS had different wheels front and back. Not an issue.

 

[Lowrent]

I don’t like admitting this but the thing that’s bothering me the most is the serif typeface. I thought a designer was running this show, how about a little consistency.

HAHAHA I am relieved to know i'm not the only one disturbed by that. That writing, that font, SCREAMS "Made in China" 😂

 

[lawe]

Just in case anyone was planning on rotating or swapping the wheels front to back... you can't. Inside the hub cover, each rim is clearly marked "Front" or "Rear". This is because of the clearance needed over the PP Brembo brakes, it seems...

at 2:51 onwards...

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Did they really have to write that it's a wheel?

 

[I_Kent_Spelgud]

Thank Mao it's not Comic Sans. And Wheel isn't capitalized. 🤯

 

[rgledhill]

I love the level of OCD in this forum

The typeface reminds me of that horrible typeface used by LateX in academic institutions...

It's regularly used in translations from far Eastern languages, it seems. At least it's not in the kind of "Chenglish" you get in instruction manuals. It could have said "Be placing the whirling metal blades on the front spindle of powerness, only with 120Nm of tightnessing speaking on the silvery hexagons."...

 

[krheinwald]

with 120Nm of tightnessing speaking on the silvery hexagons."...

140

 

[rgledhill]

I'm sure I remember Bjorn saying 120Nm in the video but I must have misremembered I'm glad someone could decode my tongue-in-cheek Chenglish .

 

[Steve The Techy]

I'm sure I remember Bjorn saying 120Nm in the video but I must have misremembered I'm glad someone could decode my tongue-in-cheek Chenglish .

He definitely said 120, I was primed to hear what he said by reading your review. And despite what Bjorn says, my tire company does use a torque wrench.

 

[krheinwald]

He said 120 as that was what the mechanic applied. The PS manual says 140, though.

 

[CEDER]

Also the 19" wheels are different front and rear and those have no markings with bad font to notify the user. Will be interesting when they are mixed up and 9" wheels end up at the front with 8" at the rear? Could even be diagonal on the car when only one side is mixed up?

Anyway. On the back of the spokes it's quite easy to see the rim dimensions and ET and the rear should be 9X19ET53.

 

[rgledhill]

Hmm, that's not clever, not marking them! I shall need to remember that when I get all-season tyres put on!

 

[Guy]

Somebody at Volvo/Polestar must have a fixation about wheels/tires dimensions. The XC40 recharge gets 7.5X19 wheels front and back but 235-50 in front and 255-45 in the back.