New wheels fitted! bought from jnufcuk

[mcgee9t2]

looks crap! u need 17" wheels... much better 

You're joking! You'd have no tyre wall left, you'd slide off the road trying to keep up with me. At least some tyre wall lets the tyre give a little. You don't want to lose performance just because you think it looks good by looking as though it doesn't have any tyres.

i have 17" wheels and they have quite alot of tyre wall left, getting towards two inch

also these wheels are 18"

[Dalo Harkin]

18's on mine too - look  just need to be refurbed lol

[Ant1981]

looks crap! u need 17" wheels... much better 

You're joking! You'd have no tyre wall left, you'd slide off the road trying to keep up with me. At least some tyre wall lets the tyre give a little. You don't want to lose performance just because you think it looks good by looking as though it doesn't have any tyres.

i have 17" wheels and they have quite alot of tyre wall left, getting towards two inch

also these wheels are 18"

Your speedo must be reading wrong as the standard tyre is just under two and a quarter inch with 16 inch wheels.

[mcgee9t2]

looks crap! u need 17" wheels... much better 

You're joking! You'd have no tyre wall left, you'd slide off the road trying to keep up with me. At least some tyre wall lets the tyre give a little. You don't want to lose performance just because you think it looks good by looking as though it doesn't have any tyres.

i have 17" wheels and they have quite alot of tyre wall left, getting towards two inch

also these wheels are 18"

Your speedo must be reading wrong as the standard tyre is just under two and a quarter inch with 16 inch wheels.

nope it reads exactly the same and its the same OD as my standard alloys. 225/45/17 and if you do 45% of 225 you get 101.25mm therefore roughly 100mm for the whole side wall and once you take into context the bead that goes inside the alloy and the curved part of the tyre your looking at around 5 cm. i shall go get a pic to prove

[Ant1981]

looks crap! u need 17" wheels... much better 

You're joking! You'd have no tyre wall left, you'd slide off the road trying to keep up with me. At least some tyre wall lets the tyre give a little. You don't want to lose performance just because you think it looks good by looking as though it doesn't have any tyres.

i have 17" wheels and they have quite alot of tyre wall left, getting towards two inch

also these wheels are 18"

Your speedo must be reading wrong as the standard tyre is just under two and a quarter inch with 16 inch wheels.

nope it reads exactly the same and its the same OD as my standard alloys. 225/45/17 and if you do 45% of 225 you get 101.25mm therefore roughly 50mm from rim to tread... shal get a pic in a mo to show

I'll assume it's not a MK4 from this point onwards shall I then?

[mcgee9t2]

yep it is a mk4 and there the same size as the OD on the standard wheels

[cullygti]

how could the speedo be wrong the circumfrence of the wheel is the same from 16" with correct tyre size to 18" with 225 40 18 its when you go bigger than that size that throws the speedo out

[Ant1981]

Are your other wheels standard? I thought they were all 16" 55mm profile as standard.

[mcgee9t2]

Are your other wheels standard? I thought they were all 16" 55mm profile as standard.

yep standard and nope my other wheels are 15" avasus alloys.

[Ant1981]

how could the speedo be wrong the circumfrence of the wheel is the same from 16" with correct tyre size to 18" with 225 40 18 its when you go bigger than that size that throws the speedo out

It's the bit (a little towards the top) where he said his wheels are 18", not the OD is 18" of the tyre and the wheel, I assume now that then, he meant OD.