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Originally posted by xLSTONEx
How come nobody bashes people that have 17X8 wheels. Most of them have 225 on thier wheels, but nothing gets bad said about them. A 7.5 can hold 225 or better but every body thinks to think it is a shi_ty tire. WTF?
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I hate 17x8. It just looks odd. So narrow in comparison to the height. 16x8 looks ok. I dont like 16's except R32 GTR's and P1/K1's. 17 and 18's shoudl be at least 9 inches wide imo. Man, 15x8 or 15x9 rocks too! Like some SSR Reverse Mesh. Daaaaang.
The problem with people's wheel choices is that they go for very inexpensive ugly looking wheels. Like Tenzo R and crap. I mean as much as I do not like knock off parts, I found some rims that are 2 18x9 +24 for $315 shipped to Cali. with 17x9 +24's in the front, you are looking at about $600 something shipped... And check out those sizes... adn these wheels are just plain 5 spoke, nothing stupid or dumb looking. Are they the coolest wheels? No. But I would rather get them than Volk Gramlight 57c in 17x7.5 +32!!! Do you know how nasty that will look? MOST the Volk cars you see in the Ads have wide fenders and 17/18x9 or 10 with the lowest offset available.
Then you like the wheel, see which sizes are inexpensive enough for the average dreamer S13 owner, look at your stock bodied, stock suspension car, and get 17x7 or 7.5 in some high offset, wait 3-4 months for Volk to ship them, and then get disappointed when they come becasue it was not what you were hoping. Seen this happen like 4 times in the last 2 months!!!!
Oh btw, 300+ ps to spin 9 inch wheels? Shiiiiit I guess you never heard of stretched tires. Its all about 215/45/17 on the 17x9 and 225/40/18 on the 18x9.