Widetrack and final offset

[Dave_IOW]

Going widetrack off a mk3 GTI so will be 5 stud, and buying some BMW fitment wheels.

The zimmer wheels have an offset of 47, will they fit with adaptors, or will they have to be re-drilled?

The car has the small arch kit on it, will this be enough to hang out over the tyre tread? Don't particularly want stretched tyres.

[oakgreengolf]

Offset of a standard wheel is around 37, wide track gives you another 10mm if I remember correctly. So in total your looking at roughly 20mm wider than what you have now. That's without the adaptors too.

[Dave_IOW]

Pretty sure the number gets lower the further away from the car you get, so an ET47 wheel, with 25mm spacers, would end up at ET22 which I believe is fine on a mk2.

How this is affected by, in particular, the mk3 gti wide track option I'm unsure... Sure someone on here will have done it     

[murraymint]

Have you looked on the vwGolfmk2 forum? Lots of info on there

[Wayne]

Going to be really tight for clearance.

[danny_p]

dosent have to be 5 stud  you can use 4 stud hubs with the mk3 wishbones, driveshafts and arb's,  of press 4 stud hubs into the mk3 bearings carriers 

[Dave_IOW]

So I can use the whole mk3 16v setup so I can fit AGU and still retain 4stud?

[JC]

yet more decisions . . . . . . . . .

[Dave_IOW]

yet more decisions . . . . . . . . .

Messing with my emotions this is.   

[Diamond Hell]

Messing with my emotions this is.