Need to pickup a spare today to get my car mobile so I can sort the two damaged wheels. Was hoping someone could tell me if a 15" steel will clear the 312mm front brake calipers? If not, what's my best bet to look for?

15s, no chance. 16s probably. My 16" TDs have maybe 2mm clearance between the caliper and the rim, I don't know how tight it is between the caliper and the face though. I would think it'd be fine, many cars which came with 312 brakes as standard still had 16" steel spares, such as the Leon Cupra, and I doubt VAG made a different spare for each model.

Great, thanks!

Yeah 16's fit, but that's the smallest

It's tight mind you,

Here's a pic of 16's over 312's.

Be putting mine on soon. brrrr

Loads of room Garry

Iv sold my steels to Andrew for him to use as winters. The OEM standards are back out now as Winters Standards FTW. Just wondering what colour to finish them in :S

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been offered some leon cupra oem 16s for £50 so I'll try and pick them up... can't afford winter tyres though...

How is handling affected though, running such narrow tyres?

Narrow tyres compared to what? The Leon Cupra OEM 16s (I'm assuming this is a set of multi-spoke 16" alloys off the pre-facelift Leon Cupra) run 205 width tyres, the same as the Fabia vRS.

even if you were running winter steels you would'nt be running very narrow tyres. As you can just see in Garrys pic, he runs 195/50/16 and thats on 6.5j wheel. I run 195/45 on 7.5J normally so il be running wider tyres (at least on the back) for my winters so the tyre difference will literally be the same if not a bit wider on the back, just a little more tyre wall i.e 50 instead of 45 or 40

Elliott

In snow slightly skinnier tyres are better anyway.