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General => The garage => Topic started by: buzzkip on 04 April 2010, 21:51

Title: Wheel fitment, offset, ET blah blah blah o_O
Post by: buzzkip on 04 April 2010, 21:51

Hi all,

Could someone please tell me how to measure my car, in order to actually use the information from the wheel sizes / offsets / ET etc etc (which is confusing)?

Like I don't actually know where to measure on my car to match up with the wheel size to know whether or not it will fit or stick out etc  :shocked:

Thank you,

Title: Re: Wheel fitment, offset, ET blah blah blah o_O
Post by: zdebx on 11 April 2010, 16:57

Is yours a CL/GL/SE or GTI/VR6 Golf? I'm assuming you have a mk3?

If it's the first ones, then you will have stud fitment of 4x100, if the latter then 5x100.

The offset of anything from 20-45 is pretty much fine. The lower is the offset the further the wheels will stick out.

You don't really need to measure anything, as long as you know the specs of the alloys you want.

Also another thing to keep in mind is the centre bore of the wheels, because sometimes it can be larger, than what's on your car, in which case you will need spigot rings to match the bores of the car and the alloys.