Hi all,

 

Looking at buying some Rota Grid-V's for my 06 Fabia vRS

The wheels are 16 x 8 ET20

 

Firstly, am I right in saying the standard wheels are 16 x 7 ET38? (Conflicting info on standard wheel size and offset)

 

I've had a look on willtheyfit.com and it's showing the Rota's would sit 30.7mm further out than the standard wheels - https://www.willtheyfit.com/index.php?width=205&aspect=45&diameter=16&wheelwidth=7&offset=38&width2=205&aspect2=45&wheel_size=16&wheel_width=8&offset2=20

 

I feel 30.7mm isn't excessive and they should sit right out in line with the arches

Car will be on coilovers dropped somewhere between 40-50mm, I don't want the wheels to tuck at all (not my thing)

 

I'm struggling to picture how the wheels will sit on the car and lots of people saying not to go lower than ET25 on Fabias, can anyone offer advice/pics and let me know what you think?

You don't mention what size tyres you intend to use, this is really important because it's the tyres which will determine whether they rub or not.

10 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

You don't mention what size tyres you intend to use, this is really important because it's the tyres which will determine whether they rub or not.

Oops, my bad! They're in the willtheyfit link

Current tyres are 205/45/16 

 

I intend to use the same tyres which should have a little bit of stretch

Depending how the tyres look on the wheels, I'd potentially be looking to use 215/45/16 instead

The 215/45 tyres are going to be quite alot larger. Abour 10mm in diameter and 10mm in width.

Not excessive but may be worth checking with the drop and offset

13 hours ago, Munfred said:

The 215/45 tyres are going to be quite alot larger. Abour 10mm in diameter and 10mm in width.

Not excessive but may be worth checking with the drop and offset

 

Hadn't considered that to be fair! I'll bear that in mind and try the 205/45 tyres first since I have them already

 

I suppose I'm just hoping they don't poke out of the arches too far 🤷‍♂️

I’ve got a set of Audi a1 alloys on my Fabia. They are et38, no spacers and on 215/45r16 tyres.

 

They look to sit just flush to the edge of the fender so don’t poke out. Passed the MOT which I’m not 100% on but if your tyres stick out past the fender it’s a fail?

 

With the wheels your looking at being only ET20 yours shouldn’t be as close to flush as mine but I would look at them fouling anything on the inside as you may need to look at maybe getting spacers.

 

Also I haven’t installed my coilovers yet and I am assume you have a vrs to your car will be lower than mine at the minute. So I don’t know if the 215 size tyre would run or not.

 

If I am wrong please someone correct me lol.

4 minutes ago, mikey362 said:

I’ve got a set of Audi a1 alloys on my Fabia. They are et38, no spacers and on 215/45r16 tyres.

 

They look to sit just flush to the edge of the fender so don’t poke out. Passed the MOT which I’m not 100% on but if your tyres stick out past the fender it’s a fail?

 

With the wheels your looking at being only ET20 yours shouldn’t be as close to flush as mine but I would look at them fouling anything on the inside as you may need to look at maybe getting spacers.

 

Also I haven’t installed my coilovers yet and I am assume you have a vrs to your car will be lower than mine at the minute. So I don’t know if the 215 size tyre would run or not.

 

If I am wrong please someone correct me lol.

 

Ok, but they're not 16 x 8, they're 16 x 7 so your point is frankly moot.

 

I think they're too wide and will rub with bigger tyres.

32 minutes ago, mikey362 said:

Passed the MOT which I’m not 100% on but if your tyres stick out past the fender it’s a fail?

If there's evidence of either tyre wall (any wheel) rubbing on any of the outer bodywork, inner wheel arch, exhaust parts or suspension it's a fail.

23 minutes ago, sepulchrave said:

 

Ok, but they're not 16 x 8, they're 16 x 7 so your point is frankly moot.

 

I think they're too wide and will rub with bigger tyres.

Appreciate the input mikey but I think sepulchrave is right, your wheels likely won’t be 16 x 8 but probably 16 x 7

 

willtheyfit.com shows I’ll actually gain 5mm on the inside so I’ll have more clearance between the strut and wheel. The question is will the wheels poke too much if they’re 30mm further out than my current set up. 

 

I personally expect a touch of poke but maybe 10mm or so that’s all. Don’t want to spend £600 on wheels that look daft

they’re not 16x8 I know that. I forgot about the extra inch difference in your wheels to mine. Curse of being at work whilst on the forum can’t multi task lol.

 

sepulchrave is right they will be too wide with the extra inch. 

 

They’re gonna stick out a fair bit lol might look good with a bit of arch rolling though 

 

 

Fit them and then solve any issues with an angle grinder and lump hammer.

 

You can fit 205/45 to 6.5J to 7.5J rims, so 8J rims is too wide.

 

You can fit 215/45 to 6.5J to 8J rims.

 

Adding spacers to a rim with an ET20 offset will make the situation worse.

 

For example, adding a 10mm spacer to an ET20 rim, will change the effective offset of the rim to ET10. 

Instead of all this guesswork go onto this site and get some facts

 

https://www.willtheyfit.com