View Full Version : Help! My 17s Rub! lol
Pwnage-Corsa
30-01-2006, 19:45
Hey guys :D
Well, got my 17s fitted the other day, TSW Heats 205/40/17 et35 with yokohoma tyres and when i have people in the back and go over a bump they rub bad (not big people either, no fat birds in my motor before you say it lol!)! It is already marking the back tyres!!!
So i went to a garage today and asked about sorting my arches, they said nothing could be done which is total crap but ye... can someone tell me exactly what i should be asking a garage to do now please?
All advice appreciated, thanks in advance :)
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Andy_SRi
30-01-2006, 19:46
Take the wheels back :thumbs:
35 is way out, people occasionally get away with 37-38 with a few arch mods / can sometimes be very lucky.
35 is only 10 off the recomended offset of 45 :roll:
andym765
30-01-2006, 19:48
That off set is way out id sell the wheels if i were u.
Pwnage-Corsa
30-01-2006, 19:50
argh you're kidding? >.<
I bought them from www.carnoisseur.com (actually drove all the way to kettering store from derby to get these babies) and he said there would be no rubbing, damn it!
There nothing i can do?
andym765
30-01-2006, 19:51
u need to take them back and go fooking mental in the store if thats wot he told u :|
partridge_88
30-01-2006, 20:44
take em back should have checked on ehre before you bought em!
Pwnage-Corsa
30-01-2006, 21:27
Well... he said along the lines of "in my book it tells you if you will need to do work to make them fit and it says they fit perfectly onto a corsa c 2001> without any work needed" and i said "but ive read that the range is 40-49?" but he said it would be perfectly fine?! :/
partridge_88
30-01-2006, 22:08
he's full of ****. take them back for a full refund
KILLERKINZ
30-01-2006, 22:22
when u got no one in back they ok cos i been offered a set of 35s what steerin like
Pwnage-Corsa
31-01-2006, 11:33
well i aint had no spacers on the wheels so its been very shakey anyway (alot of vibration in the doors) feeling every damn bump... as for the steering, i can't say its an improvement from the 13" black standard wheels with trims... infact the car is worse with these 35s on... not sure if thats to do with the offset tho or not! But i wouldnt recommend you try 35s to be honest.
On a brighter note, ive just called them up and told him about the rubbing and hes ordering me in some new tyres with offset of 40 and doing straight swap over for me whilst also putting spacers on and lowering my car by 30/40mm with Jamex springs woot! :D
Andy_SRi
31-01-2006, 11:38
hmm you DO NOT want spacers
as they push the wheels out, and et 35 is out, et 40 is in further :|
Pwnage-Corsa
31-01-2006, 11:42
Andy can i speak to you on msn please, i'm not entirely sure about all this offset stuff but you sound like you know what you're on about... i've added you (im funkymonkeh@hotmail.com)
Andy_SRi
31-01-2006, 11:44
Cant really chat on msn atm (at work and its easier to hide site than msn)
ET40 with no spacers should be fine though :thumbs:
Pwnage-Corsa
31-01-2006, 11:45
well im getting alot of vibration/shaking, sometimes enough to pull the steering wheel away from me a bit which i never got on my old black wheels and trims... but the guy said that if i get shaking/vibration i need spriggits or something on?
Andy_SRi
31-01-2006, 11:48
Hmmm dunno about that, sounds like they might just not be tightened up enough / runing wrong pressure
Andy can i speak to you on msn please, i'm not entirely sure about all this offset stuff but you sound like you know what you're on about... i've added you (im funkymonkeh@hotmail.com)
mate, add me, al tell u bout ofset etc...
smoovesun@hotmail.co.uk
gadgetman
31-01-2006, 11:53
ET 35 is dangerous mate. ET37 is really the lowest you can go! Complain to them about it :twisted:
Pwnage-Corsa
31-01-2006, 12:18
Yeh, i thought something was wrong when the drive is so much worse than 13" standard wheels... i had loads more control with them, it slides all over the place at the moment and wheel spins alot
But the guy is swapping them on friday for new wheels with et40
andym765
31-01-2006, 12:44
I suggest u put ur 13s back on for the mean time/ dont us ur car
andym765
31-01-2006, 12:46
nice one :thumbs:.
take it to a body shop and tell them to cut your arches they only need ot cut the plastic bit out you will not even know its been done looks wise but it makes a big diff
et 35!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh sell um
sell um sell um!!
ul end up getting a blow out.
there i no way u can trim enough arch away to get no rubbing.. its like a mm out with et38 with totally shavvved arched..
u have no chance
u brought the wrong wheels, ul have to get some new ones
gadgetman
31-01-2006, 16:27
take it to a body shop and tell them to cut your arches they only need ot cut the plastic bit out you will not even know its been done looks wise but it makes a big diff
Not for ET35 mate! :twisted:
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