Kaamos Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Alright, this may be a stupid question but as I have about no wheel-knowledge... I'm looking for new wheels and therefore I'm hitting a whole bunch of question marks about offsets, arch clearance-tyre size etc.... Some of the options I get is to have the same rim width front and rear (IE 9.5 all around) Very seldom Supes seem to have non-staggered setups, just wanted to know how big of an issue this could be... ? Sorry if this has already been covered somewhere.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lude Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 i have 9J all round on mine, et25 dont really know what else to say regarding them, handles fine and looks ok, wish i had a ET12 now though, to stick out further Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 Staggered wheels are more of a tyre balancing act than anything. Basically with a RWD car you want a bit more traction at the rear to balance out the difference when you are on throttle and cornering. Being on the throttle makes you more likely to lose traction so if you have the same width tyres on the front and rear it means that the rear will let go first. Having more grip on the rear to make a better match for the front is what balances the car out. Through just changing the tyre widths you can go from understeer to balanced to oversteer. Having the correct size wheels helps you to fit the correct size tyres without having to stretch them on, or have them overly wide on the wheels. That's how I understand it anyway. I would recommend 0.5" bigger at the rear, same as stock, for anything up to BPU power. For an N/A it doesn't matter quite as much, hence why the wheels were the same width, but I would still have wider tyres on the rear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaamos Posted December 2, 2011 Author Share Posted December 2, 2011 (edited) Thanks for the explanations! This is more or less what I had in mind, ad the end of the day it's yhe tyre width that matters, difference on rim width only helps fitting correct-sized tyres, hence 9.5j all around could suit with let's say 265/275 rear and 245/55 front, only difference against a classical 8.5j/9.5j would be the front tyres to be more stretched, if I got it right... Forgot to mention I have a stock UKspec TT, no BPU whatsoever so far.... @Lude, what tyre sizes do you have if I may ask ? Edited December 2, 2011 by Kaamos (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 245s are a bit small for 9.5j IMO. I have 235s on my 8" rims and they are perfect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lude Posted December 2, 2011 Share Posted December 2, 2011 as per my previous post, i have 9J all round, however tyres are wider on rear, i run 235 on the front, 255 on the rear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 (edited) .... Edited December 3, 2011 by Tyson (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fri3ndly Posted December 3, 2011 Share Posted December 3, 2011 I am also looking for some new wheels and have my eye on the Kei D2's. You can select which tyres you would like for them (so wider at the back) but I would prefer to have staggered alloys - are there any good places to be looking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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