« Reply #10 on: 12 January 2013, 11:12 »
The CKs come in a 44mm offset and sit just right visually in the arches but will catch on a mk5 on the front without the wheel arch tuck mod. They do just about get away without catching on the mk6 wearing 235 tyres.
There's a thread on here somewhere of what happened to mine on almost the first trip out wearing 225s on my CKs, needless to say the 225s were immediately sold and 235s put on!! I bought a set of Conti 3s off a guy on a forum who had R Tallawhatnots and had lowered his mk5 immediately getting rubbing issues (he had an R32 but had bought a brand new set of R alloys for it from a guy who had an R and had 'upgraded' to something else).
Now, I had a set of Conti 3s on my old 18" BBS wheels on my mk5 which had massive rim protectors but the ones off the OEM alloys had much smaller rim protectors which leads me to conclude that the OEM tyres are a cheaper version of tyre.
Anyway, to cut through my rambling the 235s sit marginally squarer but have a good look at the actual physical tyre before you buy as my 225 tyre dealer bought Conti 3 would have protected the rim better than my OEM VW factory 235.
Does any of that make sense? No idea as I'm typing this off the phone and can't re read it properly having come off an11 hour night shift with virtually no sleep!!
And that's how it looks with ET44 8x19 CKs on 235 rubber
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