Wider Rim on Mk2

[Brummy]

as title really.. whats the widest you can go say in a 16, ET pretty much standard 38 ish without having to mess with arches etc?

what are most running?

Discuss (please)

 

[Brummy]

I know Ollie runs (occasionally) the extra wide Teledials in 8" flavour, I believe..
anyone else running anything 7 or wider?

 

[EnGbudd]

Seattoby runs his 9" borbets without any work to the arches me thinks. Im running 7.5's with no work to arches :>

 

[kyle18uk]

I doubt you'll get away with 9s with stock arches. I'm getting 9s all round next week, et25 front and et15 rear, but i'm also getting the arches rolled, pulled and flared!

 

[crezz]

that will have loads of poke kyle

 

[kyle18uk]

do you reckon? Too much poke? They'll have stretched tyres on. Been looking at mk3 golfs with same offsets and looks ok.

 

[crezz]

only one way too find out, get some pics when you trial fit them

 

[kyle18uk]

Lol true! Hope they do fit tho! I'll post pics soon as I get them, I'm pretty sure no Ibiza has had these wheels yet!

 

[Brummy]

Seattoby runs his 9" borbets without any work to the arches me thinks. Im running 7.5's with no work to arches :>

are yours 16's?...seems I might be running 7.5's before long. (even if only for shows)

 

[OllieL]

You can get 9's on with no problem!!
Man up and take the Plunge John

Ollie

 

[EnGbudd]

are yours 16's?...seems I might be running 7.5's before long. (even if only for shows)

Yeah 16's :> i have no problem what so ever. I think the offset of them is 20.

Like Ollie says I swear people are running 9's without any problems.

 

[OllieL]

Thought Borbets only came is 7J - hence you running a 195 on them!
But yeah, you can run a 9 easy. Think you just have to run the correct offset to clear both sides (arch and suspension strutt).
I was going to run a 9J d90 on the back with no problems (I calculated).
Whats the wheels in question then Big-J

Ollie

 

[EnGbudd]

7.5" for sure, 195's have a bit of a stretch but not much. I was looking for some 9's for the back because seattoby seems to be running them no problems.

 

[Brummy]

ok.. so , lets say for sake of arguement, a set of 16's at 7.5" width, et is @35 or so..
normal 195's would look ok with no crazy stretch on ( Im not one for the stoooopidly stretched tyre thaang)


and as for "man up" Ollie................

 

[kyle18uk]

it depends if you get 195/45 or 195/40

45s are like balloons compared to 40s. 40s have a nice little stretch

 

[Brummy]

40's would be like an elastic band.

 

[EnGbudd]

Well mine look like this with a 195/45/16 on a 7.5

 

[Brummy]

Cool, that'll do the trick
*far too many speed-humps around here to go too low a profile anyway*

 

[EnGbudd]

Cool, that'll do the trick
*far too many speed-humps around here to go too low a profile anyway*

Glad i could help you out

 

[suj]

don't go 40's in b'ham brum, you'll end up at the chiropractor lmao
would look sweet enough with 45's

what rims are you looking at mate? i wanna see them, are the RA's gonna stay as winters?