18x8 w/ a 50mm offset...will they fit?
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18x8 w/ a 50mm offset...will they fit?
I'm in the market for new wheels again. I don't want to second guess the manufacturer but I had to run it by you guys first. They suggested 18x8 w/ a 50et offset. This will give me about a 2" lip front and rear, and enough room to drive daily with out rubbing. Also the suggested tire size is a semi-streched 215/35/18. Is anyone running a setup similar to this? I can get almost any offset I want, so if needed I'll bump it up or down. Thanks for your input!
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Rep Power: 0 ^^ DPE is the wheel company. They seem to know their stuff. I'm shocked to hear they could be wrong. However I have searched this forum and more than one member is running an 18x8, or even 18x8.5 wheel with the correct offset. Is 50mm too high? Maybe you could give some reasoning behind your reply.
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Originally Posted by 98VTEC
^^ DPE is the wheel company. They seem to know their stuff. I'm shocked to hear they could be wrong. However I have searched this forum and more than one member is running an 18x8, or even 18x8.5 wheel with the correct offset. Is 50mm too high? Maybe you could give some reasoning behind your reply.
I've got a set of 16x8s with a +38 offset and there's barely 1/4" between the inner lip and the strut housing. I probably need a spacer. There's not a chance in hell a +50 will fit.
It shouldn't have taken too much for them to figure that +50 is way too much. They're trying to shove as much extra wheel inside the mounting hub as they can, and evidently forgot that there's suspension components in there. They're basically wanting to stuff 6" of an 8" rim (its actually more like 6.5" or so because the rim is 8" bead to bead not lip to lip) behind the mounting face of the hub. What they should be doing is trying to maintain the the mounting hub to inner lip dimension of the wheel to keep the inner lip in relatively the same orientation to the suspension as it would on a thinner wheel, which ends up being somewhere around a +28. +28 gives the opposite problem, wheel sticks out, so you can compromise and squeeze back in some. Somewhere in the low 30s is about right for an 8" wide rim. Its a tight fit. Don't plan on lowering the car. Carnage will ensue.
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Originally Posted by Boilermaker1
Be as shocked as you want. Most of these places don't know how to fit stuff on specific cars, they guess based on what they stock.
I've got a set of 16x8s with a +38 offset and there's barely 1/4" between the inner lip and the strut housing. I probably need a spacer. There's not a chance in hell a +50 will fit.
It shouldn't have taken too much for them to figure that +50 is way too much. They're trying to shove as much extra wheel inside the mounting hub as they can, and evidently forgot that there's suspension components in there. They're basically wanting to stuff 6" of an 8" rim (its actually more like 6.5" or so because the rim is 8" bead to bead not lip to lip) behind the mounting face of the hub. What they should be doing is trying to maintain the the mounting hub to inner lip dimension of the wheel to keep the inner lip in relatively the same orientation to the suspension as it would on a thinner wheel, which ends up being somewhere around a +28. +28 gives the opposite problem, wheel sticks out, so you can compromise and squeeze back in some. Somewhere in the low 30s is about right for an 8" wide rim. Its a tight fit. Don't plan on lowering the car. Carnage will ensue.
I've got a set of 16x8s with a +38 offset and there's barely 1/4" between the inner lip and the strut housing. I probably need a spacer. There's not a chance in hell a +50 will fit.
It shouldn't have taken too much for them to figure that +50 is way too much. They're trying to shove as much extra wheel inside the mounting hub as they can, and evidently forgot that there's suspension components in there. They're basically wanting to stuff 6" of an 8" rim (its actually more like 6.5" or so because the rim is 8" bead to bead not lip to lip) behind the mounting face of the hub. What they should be doing is trying to maintain the the mounting hub to inner lip dimension of the wheel to keep the inner lip in relatively the same orientation to the suspension as it would on a thinner wheel, which ends up being somewhere around a +28. +28 gives the opposite problem, wheel sticks out, so you can compromise and squeeze back in some. Somewhere in the low 30s is about right for an 8" wide rim. Its a tight fit. Don't plan on lowering the car. Carnage will ensue.
Either way though, those wheels will definately not fit.
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