Quote Originally Posted by the ski man View Post
can anyone confirm the rumour I've heard that after GM stopped making them they were remade by a third party (possibly bridgestone as eluded to in the previous post) however the black rubber wasnt quite as dark as the factory originals and had a considerably softer feel.

I've been told this by a few people but just wanted to know if this was merely a rumour or if there was truth to the matter.
gm never made them inhouse,they were outsourced to uniroyal and then uniroyal became bridgestone..
from what i have been told by the people on the ground at the time...back in the later 90s sometime the mould broke and was offered to rare spares but they did no take it and repair it so it was scrapped..
anything rares sold back in the 90s as a gts wheel was just that...a gts wheel produced by bridgestone and purchased from holden,rares reproduction wheel did not come out till a couple of years ago and is a pos..it does not even look like the original.
like all things that are produced from a mould,the mould wears and the part is not as good as one produced as a first run...

just as a matter of interest to people looking for nos parts..if you find rare spares packaged products and it is an 80s or 90s package it will be genuine holden..do not dismiss it as a rares copy.