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Gtavalanche 
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 Topic: Audi Quattro wheels and tyresPosted: 17 Aug 12 at 21:33 |
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I have a set of 17 X 7.5 et 35 audi wheels, My van is a lightweight T3 caravelle, running -70 AVO's and Bilstein B4's.
I've studied the fitment tables and pretty sure I need 215\50\17 91W. -m just worried about joining the curly arch club. Do I need to go down t 215\45\17 on the front? Ready and waiting to be told I'm being stupid\_unsafe. Cheers in Advance.
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Posted: 17 Aug 12 at 21:48 |
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91's are too low load rating and 215/50/17's are smaller than the standard set up.
If you do use that size though they are also available in 95 load rating. |
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Posted: 17 Aug 12 at 22:14 |
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Cheers steve, I'll look for 95 rated ones then. I think its about 3mm smaller.
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Posted: 21 Aug 12 at 15:23 |
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I'm running 215/50/17 up front from sizes off the calculator here. Speedo is bang on, you're not going to notice 3.5mm on the radius of the tyre. There's probably more variation in that going from one brand to another. Kumho Sport LE, XL rated from Camskill Tyres.
Still managed to chunk the shoulders when pulling into the first filling station, thanks to the Cup Kit
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Posted: 21 Aug 12 at 15:37 |
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Thats what I thought, I was just a little worried about the width on a lowered van.
How much were the Kumho per corner?
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Posted: 21 Aug 12 at 16:47 |
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lol, cheers steve.
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Posted: 05 Sep 12 at 17:18 |
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GT, are you using spacers or have you got the right center bore? Got some Audi 8x17, ET 35 that I want to use but looking at some info ion here it looks like I might have to go with 15mm spacers.
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Posted: 05 Sep 12 at 20:13 |
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16mm on the front and 20 mm on the back to fill the arch. Ill still need to have the centre bored out or shorten the grease caps. |
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Posted: 05 Sep 12 at 20:15 |
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No clues as to how the ET equivalent of 20 affects handling then?
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Posted: 05 Sep 12 at 20:27 |
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ben iirc the wheels on a oettinger wbx6 were et 23 from the factory
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Posted: 05 Sep 12 at 20:40 |
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Really? So I've bought summit that might actually work? FMS - break out the beers!
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