Check my specs please?

[Suggs.OR]

At the end of the month I will be putting an order in for new wheels. I am a little confused and need a little bit of help understanding offsets.

I have ordered the Burger Motorsports 13mm spacers for the front and 15mm spacers for the rear. This would bring the tires pretty close to flush with the fenders based on what others have said with the stock wheels.



The sales rep recommended going with 19x9.5 +25 offset wheel with 255/35R19 tire on the front and 19x10.5 +32 offset wheel with 275/35R19 tire on the rear. I assume this is plus the 13mm and 15mm spacers.

The rep said I should get a similar outer wheel location to the stock wheels with the spacers. So why does this say the outer position is going to be out almost the 0.5" wider for each of them. Do I not need the spacers on the new wheels? Help. This is all new to me. Am I adding numbers together wrong?

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[wolf_kyle]

I too am also looking for new sets of wheels, but is so confused with offset calculations, Im planning on running stock tires and 9.5 front and 10.5 rears. Most of what ive seen people do is +22 fronts and +30 rears but i was wondering is it safe going +30 fronts and +35 rears without any rubbing issues?

 

[geert.bieseman]

I am running the following specifications on a car lowered with HKS springs

• Wheels: BCforged MLE81 - Fronts are 19x9.5" ET22 ; Rears are 19x11" ET35
  
• Tires: Michelin Pilot sport 4S - Fronts 265/35/19 ; Rears 285/35/19

No rubbing at all. Perfect fitment due to the adjustable height of the HKS springs

 

[Suggs.OR]

I am running the following specifications on a car lowered with HKS springs

• Wheels: BCforged MLE81 - Fronts are 19x9.5" ET22 ; Rears are 19x11" ET35
  
• Tires: Michelin Pilot sport 4S - Fronts 265/35/19 ; Rears 285/35/19

No rubbing at all. Perfect fitment due to the adjustable height of the HKS springs

Do you have spacers at all? It seems like I would not want to run spacers with the suggested offsets on the wider wheels.

 

[geert.bieseman]

Do you have spacers at all? It seems like I would not want to run spacers with the suggested offsets on the wider wheels.

No, not running spacers

 

[Suggs.OR]

Ah. OK. It would seem then that I shouldn't be running spacers with the offsets on the new wheels

And I am doing addition wrong for the spacers? If I have a +25 offset and I add a 13mm spacer, does that make it +38? Or +12?

 

[geert.bieseman]

Ah. OK. It would seem then that I shouldn't be running spacers with the offsets on the new wheels

And I am doing addition wrong for the spacers? If I have a +25 offset and I add a 13mm spacer, does that make it +38? Or +12?

To be honoust, not an expert in that matter, but indeed it is to increase the offset (read: space between hub and wheel, making the wheel go more to the outside)
Perhaps another member has a more in-depth knowledge.

Personally, I would never run spacers, even if they are made from good materials.

 

[Dannyvandelft]

The different offset means the spacers are "built in" to the wheel. So you won't need them if you get the right specs. Spacers push the wheel further to the outside of the vehicle, as does a lower offset by placing the hub deeper into the wheel.

 

[Suggs.OR]

Ok. I realized what I have been doing wrong. I was thinking the spacers helped increase the wheel offset which is not true. The spec I got from the sales rep was for not needing spacers to achieve that flush fender look. This is what confused me. I thought I still needed to use the burger spacers in addition to the new wheels. The outer position for the front is about 13mm and the back is about 15mm, so no spacers needed.

 

[wolf_kyle]

so running +25 on fronts is good no rub? what about +35 on rears? would the 2mm be a big difference?

 

[Suggs.OR]

so running +25 on fronts is good no rub? what about +35 on rears? would the 2mm be a big difference?

I have seen people running 19x11 on the rears so maybe not a big difference? It took me too long to understand my offsets so I wouldn't know.

 

[Meraki Autoworks]

IF you're buying new wheels, you don't want to incorporate spacers. Many of the premade wheels are spec'd for great fitment with no spacers needed.

19x9.5+22/19x10.5+35 is the popular te37 combo.

-Josh

 

[kona61]

Now, what I really was curious about was a square setup. I calculated out a set and think that 19x10 +35 would fit front and rear?

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