The Short Version
- 4×114.3 up to January 1996. 4×100 from February 1996. On the same chassis code.
- No Cultus bore has ever been researched. Not one grade, not one year.
- The GT-i uses the base car’s hub with a bigger rim.
- The database’s “Swift” page is a different car — the 2005-onward global model. The JDM Swift is filed under Cultus.
A Bolt Pattern Change With No Model Change
Most bolt pattern changes happen at a generation boundary. This one happens in the middle of a production run, under an unchanged chassis code.
Chassis E-AA44S — the three-door Cultus 1000f — appears in the factory database with dated production windows. The wheel is 4.5J×13 at +45 in every one of them. The bolt circle is not:
| Chassis | Production window | Grade | Wheel | PCD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-AA44S | to 1993.11 | 1000f | 4.5J×13 +45 | 114.3 |
| E-AA44S | 1993.11–1995.01 | 1000f | 4.5J×13 +45 | 114.3 |
| E-AA44S | 1995.01–1996.02 | 1000f | 4.5J×13 +45 | 114.3 |
| E-AA44S | 1996.02–2000.05 | 1000f | 4.5J×13 +45 | 100 |
So a 1995 Cultus and a 1997 Cultus can be the same model, the same body, the same grade name and the same chassis code — and take completely different wheels.
February 1996 is the date to remember. If a listing gives you a chassis code and a grade but not a build date, it has not told you the bolt pattern.
The Full Picture
| Chassis | Grade | Wheel | Tyre | PCD / Holes / Bore |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| E-AA44S, E-AB44S, E-AB34S | 1000f / 1000g / 1300g, pre-Feb 1996 | 4.5J×13 +45 | — | 114.3 / 4 / not researched |
| E-AA44S, E-AB44S, E-AB34S | same grades, post-Feb 1996 | 4.5J×13 +45 | — | 100 / 4 / not researched |
| E-AA34S (2WD), E-AF34S (4WD) | 1300 GT-i / GT-iA | 5.5J×14 +45 | 175/60R14 | 114.3 / 4 / not researched |
| GF-GC21S, GF-GD31S, GF-GA11S, GF-GB31S | 1500 FX, 1600 FX-4 and later grades | 5J×13 +45 | — | 100 / 4 / not researched |
The GT-i Gets a Wheel, Not a Hub
The 1300 GT-i and GT-iA, with the twin-cam G13B, are the reason anybody outside Japan cares about this car. Chassis E-AA34S in two-wheel drive and E-AF34S in four-wheel drive — a four-wheel-drive twin-cam hot hatch, which is a specification worth knowing about.
Their fitment is 5.5J×14 at +45 on 175/60R14, against the base car’s 4.5J×13. Same 4×114.3, same offset, same unresearched bore. An inch of diameter and a full inch of width, and nothing else.
Nobody Has Measured Any of It
Across every Cultus grade, every generation, every year we opened — 118 rows — the hub bore cell is empty, and the individual grade pages confirm it as 調査中, under investigation.
That is unusually complete coverage of nothing. Some vehicles have a bore on some grades; the Cultus has it on none.
So if you are buying wheels for one, you are measuring the hub yourself. It is a ten-minute job with a caliper and our reference explains the method. Do not accept a figure from a fitment calculator — there is no published number for it to be derived from.
Cultus, Swift, and Which Page Is Which
Worth clearing up because it wastes people’s time. The Japanese database has a Swift model page, and it contains only the 2005-onward global Swift (ZC and ZD chassis codes) — a completely different car, on 4×100, with the bore also blank.
The car sold outside Japan as the 1980s and 1990s Swift — and as the Geo Metro, the Pontiac Firefly and the Holden Barina — is filed in Japan under Cultus. If you are researching a classic Swift and you land on the Swift page, you are looking at the wrong vehicle.
Buying
Pre-1996 cars are 4×114.3, which is the difficult pattern. Your sources are the same small pool we point Primera and B15 Sunny owners at, and 13 and 14-inch wheels in that pattern are getting genuinely scarce.
Post-1996 cars are 4×100, which is one of the most common patterns in the world. Wheels are easy. The bore is still your problem — 4×100 wheels are made for 54.1 mm Toyota hubs, 56.1 mm Honda hubs and 59.1 mm Nissan hubs, and until you measure yours you do not know which of those will pass over it.
Importing
The whole of the AA/AB-series Cultus is past 25 years. The GT-i, and particularly the four-wheel-drive AF34S GT-i, are the grades with no North American equivalent — the Geo Metro and Suzuki Swift GT sold there were related but not the same car.
What We Could Not Verify
- Hub bore for any Cultus grade, of any year. Universally unresearched.
- Whether the February 1996 change reflects a genuine running change or a change in how the database records the car. The dated rows are unambiguous; the reason for them is not.
- Pre-1988 first-generation Cultus data.
Related Guides
- Same Chassis Code, Two Bolt Patterns
- Which JDM Cars Changed Bolt Pattern, and When
- Suzuki Swift Sport Wheel Fitment Guide
- Suzuki Cappuccino Wheel Fitment Guide
- Hub Bore: How to Measure It Yourself