hi, hope you didnt click this for another reason....

but is anyone running 17x8 alloys. i have a s1 and have found some nice wheel but im worried they are going to be too wide and foul on everything.

any advice would be great ta

 

people have fit them but not without major grief and a few choice suspension mods,i imagine it would run quite rough too

 

Mate, 7.5 inch alloys on rs turbos rub, so I would completely advise against putting on 8 inch ones. Would be scraping and bumping like a bitch. It is usually the insides of the arches are the ones that rub.

 

Since when? My diamond cuts are 7.5J with a 205 tyre. It's lowered 40mm on koni's with no arch mods and it doesn't rub at all!

They may be ok if you run a 205 tyre or 215 and trim the arches back a bit

 

7.5 are pretty close

 

Well my rs and a couple of my mates have rubbed with 7.5. It is usually only on full lock they foul

 

Offset may have something to do with that mate

 

when i had my 7 spokes going around a corner fast and it used to rub and if i had friends in the back it would rub that was with konis with a 25 mm drop

 

might just get my wheels refurbed then! i just wanted to do somthing different

 

i have a couple sets of 8j rims

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i have modded arches, coilovers and it is all down to the right offset

what were the wheels you tried? offset?

 

i had 8" on and they didnt rub.the only thing they caught was the coilovers by about 1mm.its all about the offset mate.they can fit and you dont need loads of arch work as my s1 had none and they were on no problem.