I got an offset brochure with my H&R Springs. It shows a nice black audi with stock 17" rims offset a tad.

What's up with these things? I heard they can be bad because you're pushing the wheels out from under the axle weight or whatever they're supposed to be supporting. You know, you're pushing the tires that are supposed to be supporting the car out away from the car that they are supposed to be supporting.

They look pretty good, though. And even if you ot a deeper rim, it would not "offset" the tire. But I suppose you could offset a deeper rim further because the deeper rim still keeps alot of the tire under the car when you space it out. Like if you got an 8" deep rim and spaced it out 1", it'd be the same support as a 7" rim not spaced at all. You know, there's still 7" of rim under the car no matter which scenario you choose.

 

uh, is there a point to this thread?

edit: ibtl+1

 

Yeah, they are called "wheel spacers" that change the offset of the wheel. I have no experience with them, so I don't know, but I do remember in an article in SCC, they were saying it's usually fine to use them, as long as you can engage x amount of threads with the lugnuts. I can't remember how many threads though.

I think with our lug pattern there are plenty of wheels out there, so you should be able to find some with the right offset, and you won't need to worry about spacers.

 

well, when I took off the wheel yesterday to get to the CV joint, my buddy pointed out the fact that there appears to be an OEM spacer already on the vehicle. Was that something they did appearance wise for the EX model of the 5th Gen?

So if I were to get new rotors, I wonder if they would come with spacers? And I wonder if I would have to remove the spacers add another one?