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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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| BlackSupra wrote on Sat, 02 October 2004 11:25 |
your legally allowed to run wider wheels
how about you tell us the wheel width you want to run.
EDIT: its niether 1 nor 2.
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Thanks for the reply, BlackSupra, but legality, or whatever I may personally want are irrelevant to the question. xA6xs were just an example, perhaps a bad one [reason further down]
I feel like I'm talking another language here, and no one understands...
| Nark wrote |
I think it's just a matter of track...
Whatever track you're aiming for (distance between the centres of the wheels) determines the offset that you want.
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except perhaps Nark, except now we have to ask that is the best track to use to not adversely affect stress on wheel bearings, suspension geometry etc. If the answer to this is to maintain whatever is stock, then the offset has to remain static.
But what Toyota did with the 5.5"/7" rims doesn't follow this - if 7" in a +8 offset is 'correct' for the xA6x geometry, then surely the 5.5" rim should also have been made +8. The alternative is that 5.5" is 'correct' and to put 7" rims on some xA6x models & not have inner clearance issues, they had to increase the offset... which you would think would lead to bump steer etc issues - especially given that these cars also came stock with much wider rubber too.
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"Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Stefan | Sat, 02 October 2004 00:21 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Anthony Kellam | Sat, 02 October 2004 00:51 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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BlackSupra | Sat, 02 October 2004 01:02 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Stefan | Sat, 02 October 2004 01:11 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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BlackSupra | Sat, 02 October 2004 01:25 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Nark | Sat, 02 October 2004 02:27 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Stefan | Sat, 02 October 2004 04:50 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Norbie | Sat, 02 October 2004 12:16 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Stefan | Sat, 02 October 2004 13:52 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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bbaacchhyy | Mon, 04 October 2004 21:26 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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ed_ma61 | Sat, 02 October 2004 12:20 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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BlackSupra | Sat, 02 October 2004 12:24 |
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Re: "Ideal" offset (general question, and yes I do know what offset & backspace mean!)
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Nark | Sat, 02 October 2004 13:39 |
