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I'm a fitment novice! In need of some wheel advice!

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Hi guys,

I'm looking at getting some new wheels, they're 8.5J all round which even to me is causing alarm bells to ring.

I've been on "will they fit", and apparently they're going to stick out 5.2cm more than my current wheels. My rear arches are wider than standard (current wheels are lost in them) so I'm not worried about those. My front wheels currently sit only slightly in the arches (not far off flush when looking down). I don't currently have the plastic arches on the car, although I do want them. I'm just wondering if they will help me at all in getting the front wheels to fit legally? Or if not what work would be involved!

Cheers.

 

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what are offsets of both old and new wheels bud?

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Old ones are et38 new are et17. The more I look into it the more I think it's not do-able!

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sounds unlikely bud if i can remember (been a while)

for every inch wider add 13mm offset for same fitment

so a 7j wheel with et20 would sit the same as 8j with et33

in your case if current wheels are 7j et38 and new wheels are 1.5j (inch) wider you'd need them to be ET57 ish (13 +7mm)

so with that you'd have 40mm extra 'poke'

you may have to check this though it has been a LONG time since i needed to calculate offsets  :lol:

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You,ll be lucky to get them on I would suggest, and I know its your car etc but the word why springs to mind.

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It's not the fact that I want wide wheels, it's more the fact that the wheels I want are only available in one size! I do like the wheels I've got but they fit terrible!

I'm thinking spacers on my original wheels, this is gonna be too much hassle I think.

Thanks for the help.

Sam

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They'll poke but with 185 tyres stretched over them,  a bit of camber dialled in and an arch roll you'd be ok.

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Does anyone have a pic of 7J ET20 fitted? Just curious as to how this looks compared to standard alloys, are there any OEM alloys with this fittment?


1983 Diamond Silver Mk1 GTi - Black Leather Interior - 16V ABF - Cable box - Upgraded Servo/MC and 280mm Disks - Coilovers - 15' Melbers

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I have staggered wheels on my golf;

Front are 7J ET20
Rears are 8J ET5

All have 175/50/R13 tyres on them (slight stretch on fronts, bit more on the rears; see below pics;

7J stretch



8J stretch



And this shows the fitment, i have fitted 5mm spacer all round aswell.



Head on



From behind



I hope that helps! :thumbs: more pictures on my thread (link in my sig)

Flick r - Flickr: ErosUK's Photostream Insta g r a m - @MK1_TOBY

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Thats a good look, does anyone know what wheels are on the wrigleys golf?

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1983 Diamond Silver Mk1 GTi - Black Leather Interior - 16V ABF - Cable box - Upgraded Servo/MC and 280mm Disks - Coilovers - 15' Melbers

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Look like empis or minilites, SSR or some other replica style.
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