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Originally Posted by Jrfish007
That's big... it can be done, but at 7.5 inches you are going to have make sure the offset is correct, I personally have no experience with that wide of a tire on these civics. Also on an 18 inch rim you are going to have to have basically a rubberband on for your tire, this is going to lead to a very hash ride and premature ware on you struts. I would highly recommend going down a tad, the largest I would put on a daily drive civic is 17x7 with a 205/45 17 tire.
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Originally Posted by nitroal1973
I am running 215/45R17 right now, with no problem. 18's in a 215/40R18 will be no problem. Done it on many customers cars. I do truly appreciate all info you have given me. There is a lot of useful info on here.
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Originally Posted by nitroal1973
I believe the offset on the 18x7.5 is 42mm..... 
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Scratch that......45mm
oops!Scratch that......45mm
I ran a 7 inch with a 40mm, you are going 5 mm in and .5"-5mm further out, that is 12mm - 5mm which was 7.5mm further out. 7.5mm isn't that much more, so you sholdn't have a problem, I think, as long as your springs don't hit, but since you've done it before, I guess they don't hit. So iguess that would be okay, but I would still be caustous about that set up.
Still debating between the Motegi FF7 or DP6, want to order this week for sure. Not sure about tire size, I might try 22540R18 to see if they will fit or not after I put the springs and struts on.
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Originally Posted by nitroal1973
Still debating between the Motegi FF7 or DP6, want to order this week for sure. Not sure about tire size, I might try 22540R18 to see if they will fit or not after I put the springs and struts on.
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Rep Power: 319 You might be able to pull it off, if you go to a higher offset like 50mm and a smaller spring, but that's just a fitment issue (check to make sure the srping don't hit the tire). By pulling the tires in that much you will have changed the suspension geometery making your cars quite "darty" and you will have a very tail happy civic. SO in the end you will not have the handling people with 205's on stock rims will have and you've spent a ton of money on these.
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Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
The only one I know of with problems was the Helium (since discontinued), some of them were too brittle and they cracked.... but the incidents of that I'm aware of are very few. There's nothing wrong with Konig wheels.
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Originally Posted by SevenCyrus
are those silver or chrome? Im still dont no what to get for my red vic, silver or gunmetal.
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