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Does anyone happen to have a set of these for sale near Iowa? They use to be a dime a dozen and now they are pretty hard to come by.
01-10 PYO Wheels
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GM aluminum wheel in that pic.
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Thanks for the clarification. Ford had a similar one.
16" I presume?
I could be wrong, but I thought GM were 16" through 2006, then 17" in 2007?
@Philbilly2 probably knows.
Don't know what part of Iowa you're at or near, but Sam's Riverside Auto Salvage in Des Moines has a lot of them in stock, at $100 each.
Piper Auto Salvage in Bloomfield has them for $50 each.
I think they went to 17" or 18" wheels on 3/4 ton trucks in 2011 or so, before that they were 16"
1/2 ton GM's had 17" wheels as early as 2005.
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16" - 8x6.5 pattern threw 2010
17" - 8x180 pattern started in 2011
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My 06 has 17". Not stock. The previous owner must have swapped them. I was looking for one for my spare several years ago, but gave up.
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I think those are the rims that came on the 3/4 ton suburban back in that area
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I didn't intend to hijack this thread, but thanks. I could have been searching for the wrong vehicle.
OP, I'll do a quick search around here. I have to go to dubuque in the next week. If you're close to dubuque, let me know.
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Pretty sure they stuck with the wheels OP posted from 19xx-2006 (or 2008) I think they changed the lug patterns on the trucks first, then the burbs a few years later. Pretty sure the "new" 3/4T wheels are not a direct fit for the older burbs, or that if they do fit, you have to use wobble lugs or something
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The wheel in his picture is what comes on a 3/4 ton Surbaban from 08-13
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Yah. They may have switched lug pattern on trucks earlier
Other than some "engineer" trying to validate his existence, I wonder what the point of changing the bolt pattern was? Something tried and true that works, imo leave it alone!!
GM had been using the same 14 bolt full floater since 1973, and now it's gone. Even the 11.5" AAM axle in my 03 Duramax had the same pattern as the 14 bolt.
The Express 2500 still runs a 16" wheel in the old school 6.5" pattern. I service a fleet of GM vans at my shop and darn near every 2500 runs the same 16" steel wheel... and these vans range in year from 2002 to 2019.
GM had been using the same 14 bolt full floater since 1973, and now it's gone. Even the 11.5" AAM axle in my 03 Duramax had the same pattern as the 14 bolt.
The Express 2500 still runs a 16" wheel in the old school 6.5" pattern. I service a fleet of GM vans at my shop and darn near every 2500 runs the same 16" steel wheel... and these vans range in year from 2002 to 2019.
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By changing stuff like that, it forces you to buy OEM overpriced stuff until the AM industry gets around to making knock offs. At which point, the OEM will change it again...
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The K2XX frame trucks have a much higher front GVWR than the 800 and 900 frames.
Story I heard back in the day was that the hub was much bigger on the K2XX front ends so they needed a larger pattern to accommodate the hub size.
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Depends on the package once you get to 2007.5 - I think LTZ had 17" but the lower packages were still 16" if my mind is recalling correct. Could be LT and LTZ but I am not positive
The PYO's that the OP is talking about is from the "classic" style of truck (02-2007.5)
Your truck most likely came with a set of PYO's or steels on it and the previous owner found a set of take off P25's so he swapped them onto your truck.
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Weirdly the half ton wheels still were the same lug pattern. (OT, but I digress)
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