I am planning on putting 18's on my Vrs but want to run 18 x 8.5 on the fronts with 18 x 9's on the rear. Now if anyones is running this sett up what ET offsets are you using but not after sill camber ones as want it as flush as can get it any help is appreciated

Et35s matey

Maybe a few mm spacers

But if u get 35s

Most issues will be sorted with a choice of tyre size

215/40 front

225/40 rears

Ride height will be your enemy more so

8.5j et35 front n rear will be ur flush fits and could go 225/40s if not deeeeecked

But 215/40s would sit yummy

Like to run as low offset as to avoid spacers if I can really

If it is possible that is

Spacers are a bodge, buying the right wheels in the first place is a much better Idea

My thoughts rather get it right planning on running comp mo's so want to just bolt on and go

www.willtheyfit.com

 

Get out your measuring tape and check yourself

Bbs's tend to be a et30

But a et30 8.5 will want a 215 ture so there will be stretch

The other will depend on whats made

BBS do the et30

Tsw say and 3sdm iirc are 35s

Some are 37 or 33

Depends what rims u want bud

Find what u like then check fitment options

My ch's are on bolt on H&R adaptors and i dont consider a bodge

It gets a rogering and does just fine lol

That was a cunning plan

That if i spunked out £1400 on rims if i sold the car i could put them on my newer one

Bolt on adapters are an absolute bodge. They do noting good for the suspension geometry or the unsprung weight and that's only the start of it. 

Wheels that fit properly on their own are the best option but I thought that was obvious.

Edited 23 July, 201312 yr by Frisco

My car is ****ing far from bodged my friend

Best option maybe, but a bodge is a **** job

The h&r adaptors are the best that can be bought, with the money ****ed out on wheels on a car i was or wasnt going to sell a year or 2 down the line i was planning to take them with me to the mk2 or the r32

Lol

Me geometry, you obviously know Lloyd?

Thought not, enough said I think

Thank you ????

Regardless of how much they cost or why you used them they are a less than ideal solution to a problem that doesn't have to exist which is IMO a bodge.

They will no doubt be fine but that doesn't mean they should be recommended over wheels that fit properly. 

Bodge would be like glueing the ****ing things on

Infact then the list of bodged cars on this ****ing site is unreal

With heavy wheels or too low or stretched tyres or countless other things that god forbid mess with a ideal set up

As for picking a wheel , u dont always get ur ideal offset or width

Adaptors or spacers are used widely, by those who never set tyres on a track so it doesnt have to be ideal

But to class as a bodge is ******

And i do take as a ****ing insult, and those who know me will know why !!!

My car get all and more it needs...i have my reasons i chose my set up which is not by any means ****ing bodged

Frisco you felling brave calling Lloyds car bodged lol have you met him lol

Good luck ;-)

Insult? I'm talking about car parts. Get a grip.

 

If the word bodge was replaced by compromise would that make you feel better? Spacers are a compromise to your ideal suspension geometry and add needless unsprung weight. 

 

Feeling brave? No but facts are facts and a car would be better off with wheels that fit properly. 

spacered cars are a bodge/compromise!!   paaahaha!  As Lloyds, mine and many others on here and in the modding scene proves.. they really are not.  sometimes for the wheels you want, they are needed. 

 

I do believe BTCC cars use spacers and many other motorsports also..  but, they are a bodge eh!!  

 

Frisco my friend.. your talking shart!  go home! 

Edited 23 July, 201312 yr by GeeMan-vRS244

Haha this makes me giggle.

Getting a wheel you like in the dimensions you want is not always possible so adapters/spacers are the answer.

If they were so much of a "BODGE" why on earth would x amount of people use them? Seriously!

Cars would be better of left alone but the arnt

Half of whats done around this .... No most forums is far from ideal

But its not a bodged job or a cut ****ing corner

Its not dangerous , ok a 195 on a 10j rim could be but thats extreme stuff

God forbid on the purebred monster of a vrs the geometry is thrown a little

As for getting a grip get ****ed, the car is what ive done and spent my time do, it may handle a little less well

Big whoop how will the world survive ,

The moment most of us mess with our cars its prob ****ed in one way or another

Ideal world id have a car id be happy with and leave alone, or i'll tell u what ideally theres alot of things id like to have a different result !!!

Oh wait the scene says I'm wrong so I must be.

Do BTCC cars randomly fit spacers without adjusting the suspension to the optimum settings? No they don't.

anyone  hear a noise?   

Im only assuming yours is one of the untouched vrs's then

My car mite aswell be classed as ****ed from the get go as skoda sold me a fwd car

I didnt **** it all by myself,

Some of the class of cars on here that prob have something messing with a perfect set up is ridiculous

Its a skoda site... Although richard has a GTR so someone done it rightband got a perfect set up

Bolt on adapters are an absolute bodge. They do noting good for the suspension geometry or the unsprung weight and that's only the start of it. 

Wheels that fit properly on their own are the best option but I thought that was obvious.

 

 

Please bow down to the god that is Frisco  . Please do tell me what you are running? Suspension? alloys? size? et? you have ploughed in on a topic, yet not actually said what you are running? all you have said is that if you Run Spacers it's BODGED! 

 

DO you have Coilovers? if so, are you running tt hubs? castor bushes? adjustable top mounts? is your car standard or modified?  cant tell as no info.

 

Now Trust Me Lloyd's Car is far from BODGED! It's one of the Best examples on here, I have personally done work on it, same as many other people. I have also been out in it, and It does shift, stick to the road and handle very well on the alloys and spacers.

 

Yes Spacers arent always the answer, however they aren't a Chinese dodgy copy they are genuine, 

 

SO Please enlighten me on your set up as I am highly interested.....       

 

Before you think it, I am not a spacer whore either. I actually use my car daily, and on the track, It may be in my sig i am going to be fitting some, but i am weighing up costs.

 

Oh and as it's the Fastest estate on the How fast register and 2nd fastest skoda of all time, I would say I throw my car around a little more than Lloyd.

 

I have consulted several Motorsport companies around here and spoken to some racing Legend to find out if safe, Tony Shaw who used to race Jag's in 70's and his chief mechanic Jestin Thomas, have both said it would be perfectly safe.  Also another Legend Ray West has said fine.