As most of you know, I bought my new wheels like last summer. I like the look and all, but I do have one small problem...
I have 225/50/R17's on them right now. They are 17 X 7 wheels with a +40mm offset. My problem is, if I turn the wheel really hard, the side of the tire rubs on the front subframe just slightly. It's not a huge problem because you aren't normally going very fast when you make that sharp a turn, so not much fiction there, but I don't want to damage my sidewalls all the same. Plus, next time I get tires, I think I wanna go with 235/45/R17, which may put the side of that tire even closer to the subframe.
So I think I could just put some kind of spacer between the wheel and the wheel up that would essencially change my offset to I don't rub anymore.Any thoughts? The wheels I have are the Fox Sport 2's that are on clearence on Tirerack. They Fox 2's are also available in +42mm Offset, but they're not on clearence and are almost $100 more per wheel. I think Venum probably has some tip for me, if he's checkin' this forum...
Small spacers won't hurt anything; I've been running a set for two years now, no problems. Only gets bad if you try to add three inches out and fill a 30 mm gap.
Try contacting the manufacturer of your wheels to see if they made any kits for wheel spacing, or check their website for adapter kits you can buy seperate.
As he said, as long as they are a thin spacer, you will not have any troubles. I had 5mm spacers on my last set of 18's because the offset was 45mm.
I bought mine from a place I found on eBay. Here is their email address: Massey1946@aol.com
On a side note, you have the ideal offset for the wheels so the tires must be the real problem. You might try a more narrow tire when it comes time for replacement.
Originally posted by SHO 2NV@Feb 9 2004, 06:00 PM As he said, as long as they are a thin spacer, you will not have any troubles. I had 5mm spacers on my last set of 18's because the offset was 45mm.
I bought mine from a place I found on eBay. Here is their email address: Massey1946@aol.com
On a side note, you have the ideal offset for the wheels so the tires must be the real problem. You might try a more narrow tire when it comes time for replacement.
225 tires shouldn't be a problem I don't think. I'm almost sure there are Gen 3's rolling here that have 235's. I wanna go to a wider tire, not a narrower tire... Wider is better
I went ahead and bought wheel spacers from the person you reccomended on eBay. Pretty painless. She (I think it's a she) created an auction for me listing the part and then sent me a link to the auction. I hit "buy it now" for like $12.99 and 6 bucks shipping and I'm in business. I got the 5mm spacers. She reccomended them to me. The 3mm may have not been enough and anything larger would have been bad. I'm not how mow much difference 1/2 a cm can really make, but we'll see. Next time I buy tires, I might go with 235/45 17 rather then 225/50/17. This should make the wheel a little shorter.. I think it adds up to almost 10mm difference.
Wheel diameter = 431.8 mm (17inches)
225/50/r17 : tire thickness = 112.5mm. Total outer diameter ~ 656.8mm or 25.86 inches
235/45/R17 : tire thickness = 105.75mm. Total outer diamerter ~ 643.3mm or 25.33 inches
So I guess it only gives me about 53/100ths of an inch... or about 1/2 an inch. more like 1/4 inch from the subframe cause 1/2 inch to the diameter, so 1/4 inch to the radius.
The wheels I bought are actually +50mm offset rather then +40mm I think. The one's listed for my car on Tire Rack now... the $75 closeout ones are +50mm offset and the $175 are +40mm offset... Same wheel, wrong offset. This is why I'm having wheel rub! That should mean the spacer should give me 45mm offset which should fit better. I might even end up returning them for a 10mm spacer. The great thing is, I can probably replace the old rims with new rims one at a time if I want. It'll look the same for the most part, but I'll just have wheels with two different offsets till I replace them all. If I replace them at all. Though once I'm in the $175 range, I may as well look at 18's too, or at least 17X7.5 or 17 X 8 if they have them.
-Dan
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