would you say these wheels are legal? or do they extend out of the arch a little too much?

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Legal.....

there can be tyer wall out from the arch just not tred.

Technically.. I think legal.. JUST!

You just need a little stretch on the next set of rubber as it's the tread that needs to be under the arch, not the whole wheel.

vRSsunroof beat me to it!

Edited 21 June, 201016 yr by Rob.

yep look fine

Technically.. I think legal.. JUST!

You just need a little stretch on the next set of rubber as it's the tread that needs to be under the arch, not the whole wheel.

vRSsunroof beat me to it!

Score 1 for the hole in the roof!

Hanging out with a lot of Dubbers you get to learn the tyers and arches thing, if you know somone with last months PVW there is a good section near the back about strech camber and what is legal!

yeah i think the back one are fine its just the front im slightly worried about.. : /

just becareful you dont have the tyres rubbing in the arches, that in itself is illegal (fouling the bodywork).

and i've just had my car in at the coachworks for the second time having my arches repaired due to rubbing off the paint!

it can get problematic and costly real fast...

Edited 21 June, 201016 yr by KTP

Wouldn't it just be easier to buy wheels and tyres that fit??????

Narrower tires and lowering

Then the sidewalls will be at a slight angle, and lowering will add a bit of camber to tuck them in.. and of course make it look better

You'll find out at the next MOT.

gonna say legal

If you fitted really wide tyres (say, 245 wide stretched on 9 inch wide rims) and extended the wheel arches (with wheel arch extensions) so that the tread is covered, would that be legal.

If you fitted really wide tyres (say, 245 wide stretched on 9 inch wide rims) and extended the wheel arches (with wheel arch extensions) so that the tread is covered, would that be legal.

yes it would be legal.

You're allowed the wheels to stick out around 20mm from the bodywork IIRC. Tread has to be under the arch but sidewall doesn't hence why people stretch tyres along with trying to avoid scrubbing. An example of protruding wheel based stuff... police LDV wheel nuts!

Edited 21 June, 201016 yr by Schern

from the 1996 Motor Vehicles Regulation Act, your car is legal:

"If there are no pointed or sharp features which project beyond the external plane of the wheel rim, no wing nuts are fitted and there are no projections beyond the vehicle body plan apart from tyres and wheel discs, if the latter have a curvature of not less than 30mm and do not project by more than 30mm beyond the vehicle body plan form."

In plain english:

Wheels and tyres can only "Poke" beyond the arches to a maximum of 30mm, none of which should be the actual tread of the tyre"