Mk1 Golf Campaign Pirelli P's...or not?

[goingfinn]

Hi

I wonder if any MK1 Golf experts out there can help me.
I have a set of Pirelli P’s from an old GTI I have many years back. They came with the car at the time which weren’t original to it but were said to be Campaign alloys.

Looking at them now it looks like they are MK2 Pirelli’s with the Mk1 Campaign centre caps (in metal stamped with Pirelli across them) but I would like to know for sure. According to the various guides on the interent there should be a single A in the numbers stamped on the wheel which is located under the centre caps but I do not have any stamps under there… Anyone able to identify them properly please?

[hcanimal]

If the gap between the p is 7mm its mk1 and 11mm if mk2. Never seen them with Pirelli on em before though.

[goingfinn]

Thanks hcanimal.

I will measure the gaps when I get back to the UK but I did notice that most Pirelli P slots have 9 P's and mine have 8 instead. I did some more diggging (well quite allot actually) and found this info with the part referring to mine in bold which I pasted below-



Campaign & Pirelli edition Mk1s came with 14" Ps, with the 9 larger Ps ie: the gap between the Ps was smaller than the Mk2 - Hub caps are plastic with raised black Pirelli Logos - inside the Ps should be painted black
Many Mk2 GTIs came with 14" Ps - the most common type, with a smaller P and a larger gap. Still 9 of them. - Hub caps are plastic with no logo. - inside the Ps should be black
Aftermarket Ps came in 15" & 14" with 9 Ps, in fitments for various cars, I've seen examples for FIAT, BMW & Saab. Also there was a Pirelli Edition Honda Prelude featuring 15"s. All the Ps are black inside.

Aftermarket Ps with 8 Ps:
There are just a lot less of these around.
For a time before the Campaign Mk1 existed you could get 8 P aftermarket Ps in 14". I'm not sure if there were 15s too at this time.
These Ps have the Pirelli logo prominently inside one of the Ps
In most of the examples I've seen the Ps are not painted black inside. (apparently painting them black inside was an evolution to hide brake dust and make the Ps more prominent)
These 8 Ps should have alloy centre caps with an embossed (sunken) black Pirelli logo, the opposite of the Campaigns raised logo.
These 8Ps where available for quite a long time, but they didnt sell in big numbers.



So that seems to be what they are then...