"please" can anyone help ? i need the full technical spec for "17" VRS octavia wheels

eg: 7J17 et35 plus tyre width, i do not understand wot this means but the vrs alloy will have a simillar spec, my reason for needing this is that i have 18 rs4 wheels on my octavia but they are to big, i am looking to get lenso elegance wheels for it but i need the right size from a "17" vrs wheel to make sure i do not make the same mistake twice, you can email back to [email protected] thanks for taking the time to read this message

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Davy

welcome along

Hi Bill - welcome :wave:

This section is really meant for just brief introductions; full technical posts should be directed to the relevant section of the forum.

But for your info, a 17" vRS wheel for a Mk1 Octavia is a 7.5J, ET35 and runs either a 205/50/17 or 225/45/17 tyre. The most important thing to get right is the alloy width and offset (ET number). So a 7.5 wide rim with an offset of between 30-40 would be suitable. Then the best tyre to run with is a 225/45/17.

Hope this helps,

Steve.

I thought standard wheels were 38mm offset?

I'm running 18x8s with a 35mm offset with no issues.

It could be a 38 thinking about it Rob. Just that it's late and knew it was one or the other

But yeah, general point is that the Octavia arches and setup is pretty accommodating as long as you don't go mad

Steve

Hiya.

Since we're answering the query anyway, there is no single "right tyre size" for a wheel, according to the tyre manufacturers. Their recommendation would be that you can mount a tyre on a wheel that is 70% to 95% of the tyre width. So a 7.5" (190.5mm) rim will accomodate anything from a 205 to a 265 section tyre. Note that this does not mean that an Octy's wheel arch and suspension would accomodate a 265 section.

7JX17H2 ET38 - according to ETKA.

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