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Anyone else run 10.5in diameter and scrape?

Old Jan 25, 2011 | 05:15 PM
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Originally Posted by SFS550
I have 9.5" in front and 10.5" in the rear, pic below after giving my car a nice little spa treatment a few moments ago:

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A friend of mine successfully grinded down the [font="'Arial Black"]interior part of the wheel that hooks up with the rotor/lugs by 3mm. This solved my scraping issue [/font]and the car rides and handles beautifully now.


I want to see pictures where the scraping was.

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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 05:57 AM
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Originally Posted by healthservices
I want to see pictures where the scraping was.
I didn't take pictures but the tires were scraping up against the lip of the fenders in the rear when I would hit a bump, or if I had people riding in the back of the car. I believe the offset was +20mm
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by SFS550
I didn't take pictures but the tires were scraping up against the lip of the fenders in the rear when I would hit a bump, or if I had people riding in the back of the car. I believe the offset was +20mm
So you had the offset changed by milling the mounting pad?
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 09:24 AM
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Yup, pretty much by 3mm
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 09:31 AM
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When I first put my wheels on they offered me to mill the wheels to decrease offset so I didn't rub - I refused, much easier (and cheaper) to roll the fenders to get the clearance I needed
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by pjinca
When I first put my wheels on they offered me to mill the wheels to decrease offset so I didn't rub - I refused, much easier (and cheaper) to roll the fenders to get the clearance I needed
What's the offset you're running now? I love the deep dish look of the wheels in the back. My brother has a Porsche GT2 with 13.5" diameter wheels in the rear and the lip on my wheels are still deeper than on his porsche. Now if I could only have as much power as he has in that beast.
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 09:57 AM
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I run M6 ofsets, so about +17 in the rear, flush enough for me. My wheels have a 4.5" lip, that I love
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 10:11 AM
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Same here! Mine were +20mm when I got them, but had them grinded down -3mm to +17. The lip on mine are the same as yours and I'm loving it too!
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 10:12 AM
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HAHAHA, the way I see it: There are not a lot of cars out there that can have a nice deep lip on em, so since ours can - why not get the deepest lip you can find?
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Old Jan 26, 2011 | 10:13 AM
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AMEN
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