Also remember that wider wheels etc can be inspected by an engineer who can issue an engineering certificate for them. The only thing is that they cannot engineer offset changes more than 12mm.
I ran 3.5 degrees neg camber on my 5th gen for 12,000kms with [no visible tyre wear; but i didnt treat it like a race car. I tend to baby my car around corners cos passengers dont like wacking their heads against the side window
But how can you engineer a wheel that sticks out past the wheel arch - that is a safety issue.
No, you cant engineer anything that sticks outside the guard, but if its just wider wheels you are after (with correct offsets i guess) then you can do it.
And as for looking ugly, well that is entirely subjective, but having your wheels 'poke' outside the guards is a very popular look with the European tuning crowd (VWs, Audis, Mercs etc), not to mention VIP cars. It gives the car a tough stance that looks 'phat'
And i am still trying to figure out the safety issues with having wheels stick 1-2cm outside the guards. Sure if they are 15cm out then it might be, but if people are that close to the car their toes will probably already get squished even if the wheels are inside the guards!
Engineering in that sense is more if you're rebuilding a car from scratch -- say, doing up an old model for legal street use and putting much bigger wheels on that it originally had.
The safety issue isn't so much other people's fingers and toes, it's the fact that the guard won't allow the suspension to bring the wheel right up: that's going to affect the handling of the whole car and possibly peel the tyre in an extreme case.
Since its illegal throughout all of Australia, you're just asking for trouble if you do so and there's no good reason for having your tyres stick out past your guards in my opinion...
I'm pretty sure that getting your wheels engineered isnt just for custom built cars...
As for wheels 'poking', i have heard of people whose wheel is outside the guards slightly, but suspension travel doesnt allow it to touch the guard; I mean i understand that it should be illegal because if you allow wheels that are 2cm out, then there would be nothing stopping people with open wheeler race cars riding around on the roads... but i hardly think 2cm is a threat to society!
sorry to bring this back but i couldnt really find wat i was looking for....
Do i need to roll my guards if im droping the car abt 3" maybe a little more? mind you im running the stock 16" wheels atm... like i know if i get bigger and wider wheels i would have too, but for now 16s...
sorry to bring this back but i couldnt really find wat i was looking for....
Do i need to roll my guards if im droping the car abt 3" maybe a little more? mind you im running the stock 16" wheels atm... like i know if i get bigger and wider wheels i would have too, but for now 16s...
Are you planning to keep the same rolling diameter as the stock 205/55 R16?
sorry to bring this back but i couldnt really find wat i was looking for....
Do i need to roll my guards if im droping the car abt 3" maybe a little more? mind you im running the stock 16" wheels atm... like i know if i get bigger and wider wheels i would have too, but for now 16s...
I guess it is all depending on the offset and the width of the wheels as well as the tyre size, get the wheels with correct offset ,width and tyre size and you will be fine
aaronng - yeah Prob for now, maybe getting 18s but not anytime soon,
Raz05 - yeah ill make sure of that once the time comes...
were you at matchroom snooker (next to dna) the other nite? i cant remember which day it was, saw your car parked outside
Originally Posted by Dominik
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