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Offline nolandubholmes

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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #30 on: 07 April 2012, 17:17 »
it also slightly flairs them very slighlty allowing more room for wheel width and such i know as does a company down south call arch enemy who remove your arch liners then they underseal them allowing even more room im on 19s with arch liners in and they constantly touch im a mech with an arch roller ive rolled loads of cars from audis to mazdas mx5s to all sorts of random jap / vw slammed vehicles and if possible removing of the arch liners is always best u dont need to be on air ride at all
aum no spec as no matter what i do il never be happy

Offline cullygti

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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #31 on: 07 April 2012, 17:28 »
i didnt say you had to be on air ride i said if you are on air ride to stop arch liner rubbing only on the top width of the tyre of course or catching you would have to cut out the top of the liner as cutting it all out looks sh!t.. as when the car is lowered really low on air it would rub the top of the liner on the top of the tire  if that makes sense im sure if you go on ed38 there is no end of threads about arch liners as there are a lot of ppl on there running air ride
http://www.edition38.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=444090
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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #32 on: 16 April 2012, 23:49 »
Golf is all done!! Got it dropped 40mm and put the staggered rims on with 225 40's. It passed the acid test with a car full of kids with all the football gear and had no rubbing at all. I now wish i had dropped it a bit more but that might have been pushing my luck.

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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #33 on: 16 April 2012, 23:50 »
well done fella get some pics up  :cool:


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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #34 on: 16 April 2012, 23:58 »
Wish i could post i picture, been trying but cant do it as i am a computer retard!!
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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #35 on: 17 April 2012, 00:15 »
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Offline rench

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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #36 on: 17 April 2012, 10:51 »


my old bora 8.5j front with 10mm spacrs and 9.5j rear no spacers


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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #37 on: 25 April 2012, 10:24 »

I have only gone and down loaded a photo :grin: A career in IT I think !!
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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
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Re: 8.5 and 9.5 x 18 on a Mk4
« Reply #39 on: 25 April 2012, 11:28 »
that does look really nice but really needs to be lower imo  :cool:


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