I'm trying to decide between some wheels that are 17x7.5 with a 45 offset, or some 17x8 with a 46 offset. for tires, probably 225/45/17 but I'm kinda curious if 235/40/17 tires would fit.

my question is, what size wheels, tires, and offsets are you guys running and do you have any issues with rubbing? and would you say you have a lot of clearance or very little in terms of being able to fit something bigger? also mention if you're lowered or not.

17x8 with a 35 offset, lowered considerably and I only SLIGHTLY rub the inside plastic of the fender. But that's also probably due to it not being completely secured. That wheel size/offset gives our cars an AWESOME stance.

235/40/17 are the tires

WIDEST tires the 17x8 can hold would be some 245/40s

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so, if I did 235/40/17 tires on a 17x8 with a 46 offset I'd probably rub unless I got a 10 or 15mm spacer to make the offset 36-31? the wheel offset guide says that we need a 40mm offset for 8.0" wide rim on a lowered car. you don't have any issues with the rims sticking out too far and hitting the outter side of the fender, do you?

i have 17x7 42 offset, tire size 215/45/17, the wheels look way too tucked in the back but the front rub the fender lip on the tein s-techs.

GTdrifter, im about to buy those hornets, but im going 17x7 in the front and 17x8 in the back, i demand more pics they look sweet
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I don't know if any of you have been to this website before:
http://www.carbibles.com/tyre_bible_pg2.html
but if you go about 1/3 the way down the page there is an excellent tyre size calculator.
I've recently gone for 215/45/17 Front and 225/45/17 rear under stock suspension. but still waiting on delivery.

The rims do not stick out to far. In the front, they are perfectly flush, in the back they are only slightly tucked. It has a wide stance, and I love it.

95celgt, buy them. You won't be disappointed.






This post has been edited by gt_driFFter: Nov 15, 2007 - 10:47 AM

A great wheel with those specs 17x8 35 Offset would be the 5Zigen FN01RC, 16LB and well built. I have these myself, sits flush in the front and very very slightly tucked in the rear. 215/45 are a stretch but 225/45 would be sweet.

check out www.1010tires.com for calculations with tire size vs stock size.

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yeah... but they cost about $180 per wheel and I don't like the way the skinny spokes look that much. I think I'm just gonna get some cheap 17x7 with 225/45 tires and then save up and later on get something really nice like Volks or Gram lights and then I can swap my 225 tires over onto them. those at least would be worth putting spacers and longer studs on if I had to. I don't see it being worth going to all that trouble for some cheapo $130/each wheels.

in case anyone was wondering, these are the wheels I was considering at first. they are Volk Evolutions. old school discontinued volks! was getting a hella good deal on them at only $200, but 3 were curbed, and one was cracked in the barrell, they were 17x7 with a 5x100/4x100 bolt pattern. and they were silver like in the picture. I decided that by them time I fixed the cracked one, fixed the curb rash on the other 3, and had them powder coated a color I liked, I could've just bought some pretty nice other wheels. plus I don't really like the style, I just wanted them cause they're volks


So then I was deciding between these (the 17x8 with 46 offset)


and these (17x7.5 45 offset)


but I wished those were more bronze like this intstead of gold: (same MB wheel in different color)


so now I'm still looking. but I think I'm gonna lower the car first so I won't need a different offset before and after lowering since I'll allready be lowered.

With all of the offsets above you would NEED to run spacers. Those would be ideal offsets for a Subaru, but not us. +42mm at most. You want to find wheels that are between +35 ~ +42 Anything lower than +35 would stick outside the fender and anything higher than +42 would be sunken in too much and would probably rub on the suspension without a 15mm spacer.

205 50 16 + 16 offset


This post has been edited by prowzee: Nov 21, 2007 - 6:49 AM