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which size of wheels to choose?

Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 12:29 pm

hi everybody looking for a new set of wheels to my lude. so far i have these two cached my ayes, sizes are:
r17 8j et33 or r17 9j et 25
so which ones you guys recommend? will roll arches anyway :D dont want to use spacers :)
at this time im running on r17 8j et 35 with 205/40 tires
tires will be 205/40 :)

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Post by RattyMcClelland » Sat Aug 23, 2014 2:51 pm

17x8.
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Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 4:11 pm

RattyMcClelland wrote:17x8.
im running this size now 17x8 et 35, but the wheel is to far from arch so if im going for 17x9 et25 would help to get smaller gap or i need to get with et33 better?

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Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 4:17 pm

this is the difference :) or i need 17x8 et25 :)

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Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 6:16 pm

this is the wheels im thinking to go on :)

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Post by RattyMcClelland » Sat Aug 23, 2014 7:49 pm

Im using 17x8 et 35 with 5mm spacer and they are extremely close to the arch. Maybe have 5mm maybe closer to 10mm max before i touch the arches and im rolled and pulled slightly.
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Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:08 pm

so you running same wheel sizes as i am , what tires you have on them? a close pic would help.

i forgot to mention its for 4gen and 5gen arches maybe different.

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Re: which size of wheels to choose?

Post by W1ggz » Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:35 pm

Hey man I'm running 17x8 on my 4th gen with a 235/45/17
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Post by RattyMcClelland » Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:53 pm

Andreika609 wrote:so you running same wheel sizes as i am , what tires you have on them? a close pic would help.

i forgot to mention its for 4gen and 5gen arches maybe different.

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Post by Andreika609 » Sat Aug 23, 2014 9:59 pm

@wiggz what offset your wheels are you on any spacers?

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