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Originally Posted by stovt001
Warning: Rant below.
So when I bought my 2006 Cobalt LS, it was a dealer dress-up including aftermarket wheels. With the aftermarket wheels, they used slightly different wheels in the back, identical to the fronts except for a slightly deeper lip created by angling the spokes back from the hub (same offset front/back) toward the center-line. I guess the deeper lip was supposed to make it look like wider wheel/tire combo in the back.  I went along with it anyway because the wheels themselves looked great. Unfortunately, this setup nixes the possibility of tire rotation, and I bought this car to be affordable. So I come up with the great solution to just get a set of Cobalt SS wheels and sell my old ones to make up part of the cost. I found a brand new set on craigslist for 400 bucks, and everything looked great until I realized: GM, in all its wisdom, gave 2006 non-SS Cobalts 4-100 bolt patterns, while all SS models got 5-110 bolt patters. AAAARGH.    
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that is not uncommon, true story my brother had a 97 Chevrolet Astro van. now the astro is based on the same basic platform as the S series small trucks. and because of this most of the stuff you can do on a S10 or Sonoma/S15 can be done to the astro. well his van had the standard dull steel wheels with center caps. he found a set of VERY sweet 16" alloy rims/tires off of a S10 Xtreme in chrome. he went to get them and the guy said you may want to make sure they will fit on the Astro. we thought hey it is the same platorms they should share the same bolt pattern, WRONG. the Astro wheels will not fit on a S series truck and vice versa. so he had to pass on the wheels and got a set of nice factory alloys off of a higher model Astro instead.