OrionRST200bhp

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THEY WONT FIT.... please help. the top of the suspension gets in the way. and its touching the bumper. ive seen them on cossie's before why cant i fit them???? help

dojj

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what size tyres have you got on them first of all?

secondly, i know of a way to increase the gap between the spring cup and the tyre, without cuting of welding or anything, bolt on in fact

Mike Rainbird

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Coil-overs amd smaller tyres .

OrionRST200bhp

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they have 40's on i would like 35's to be honest. how can i sort this out then mate??? i really dont wont to have to pay for a set of coilovers.

percybigun

wheel spacers?

T3ORA

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a BIG hammer then

cossie4i+

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Ask costina (Paul) he has them fitted to his saph

Steve.

lamb chops

lower profile tyres, 215/35 would be the way to go on the front.. oh and some gentle tapping with a hammer on the spring cup

percybigun

are 215/35's ok on 8J width wheels? i have them on 18x 7.5J rims and they look quite stretched out, so i didnt dare get them when i got some 18 x 8J's?

dojj

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different tyres have different looks and different "shoulders" so that they appear different, even though they are the same size

i spotted some 205/50/16's on a mondeo yesterday that stuck out an awfully long way outside the rim, and yet the tyre on the back was sung up to the face of the rim

costina

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Hope this helps i run koni sus std ride,215/35/18 tyres, fits wellyou can run coilovers but imo you will need spacers to clear the spring

Paul

OrionRST200bhp

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i have koni's with 25mm lowering springs. i should be getting 35's then? so i dont need coil overs????

fordrs2005

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they look nice of saff to

percybigun

have you got a closer up pic of the wheels, i think i might go to 215 35 18's on my 18 x 8J wheels aswell.

lamb chops

I have 215/35 on 8.75 J wheel, fits fine but watch those curbs

AndyRST

Why not get a Focus RS with the wheels already on, rather than trying to bodge great wheels on to a old car

TurboShed

Just do it properly and get coilovers, the rubbing will never really go away otherwise, you corner really hard one day and yep your old friend will come back to say hello.

TurboShed

Even the Focus RS is an old car now

At the end of the day it's just an RST S3 :P

AndyRST

Is there anywhere i said the FRS was a new car in my above post

I dont think thats fair to call it a RST s3, after all the FRS goes round corners unlike most RST's

costina

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would rather have an old cossie (£200 tax) than a fwd focus (£415 tax)

Nuff said

AndyRST

Ahhh but think of the £3500 you'll save not having to rebuild the YB engine every couple of years .

That easy offsets the extra tax that the FRS "might" have to pay (its not confirmed, it might be cars built after 2006 )

costina

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LOL Andy i,ve been lucky and had 2 cossie powered cars and only had to give a refresh to one of them due to going over the 100k

My saff is on 109k and STILL on the original bottom end!! and with most of its early miles on 290 bhp and now 330+

right back at ya m8

Paul

fatboy billy

my frs wheels on my escort have 215/35 on and are fine

OrionRST200bhp

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Well said. the focus is a great car but it'll never be as good as a cossie.

AndyRST

Wake up and smell the fresh air of change. Its a modern fwd hot hatch its not ment to be a cossie. If it was a cossie i would be disapointed with it, not all of us want cars that only go well in straight lines, some times we like to go round corners or stop quick or do a track day or even just go to the shops without it breaking down or being stolen

gaz s1

and boy are they depreciating fast, one by me 34k fsh one owner 8.5k

Lee Ivatt

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the alloy wheels are the only good thing on the Mk8 escort Rs turbo, ooppps sorry focus rs

Mr Brannen

Yeah but as nice as they are they`ll just always fall short IMO, another reason being is theyre in the same price bracket as the Escort Cosworth!!, that reason alone will kill them time after time,people are always gonna want the better investment,the better looking car and the one with the better motorsport pedigree....the Escort Cossie......end of

yellowsierra

I like ya style

but not sure about my mk7 cortina 4x4

TurboShed

Judging by that picture in your sig, I'm not sure about it either

TurboShed

AndyRST

Think theres something wrong there, should be priced around £10k - £11k but all down to condition of the car really.

Still could always buy a £3k saff and spend another £7k on putting it right and still be left with a £6K car at the end.