can anybody help me out with the offset required for my 1.4mpi 01 estate, also the maximum rim width i can fit? cheers

Around ET35-ET40

8" max i'd say. Really depends on above.

Have you searched and found the Fabia wheel thread?

cheers mate and yeh been trawling through them for a couple of hours,

I figure im looking for 15" alloys ET-35/40 to fit tyres something like: 195/50 R15 although i dont know which of those figures relates to what on a tyre ... this is incidently all new to me!

195 = width in mm

50 = aspect ratio (profile is a percentage of the above).

15 = wheel diameter in inches