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9.5j et30 on fronts??


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I'm running 9.5J ET30 fronts and have been for years. No issues at all with arch clearance even now that I'm on coilovers.

 

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The only issue I had was that, when I fitted UK brakes, my wheel was too close to the caliper without actually hitting it. So I fitted 3mm spacers and it now sits like this:

 

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It still clears the arches and I have no issues with rubbing.

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I have a 285 on my 10" up front :D

 

Thats a lot of tyre to be dragging round corners, there was a thread a while ago about a guy who went from wide tyres back nto stock width tyres and he said it transformed the way the car handles, this along with a few reports from a recent thread where people said they got more grip out of 265ish tyres then they did out of the 295ish tyres leads me to believe that having a reasonable sized tyre is a better option.

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Thats a lot of tyre to be dragging round corners, there was a thread a while ago about a guy who went from wide tyres back nto stock width tyres and he said it transformed the way the car handles, this along with a few reports from a recent thread where people said they got more grip out of 265ish tyres then they did out of the 295ish tyres leads me to believe that having a reasonable sized tyre is a better option.

 

That's fair and makes absolute sense, though at the same time I don't deem a 225 on a 10" to be a reasonable sized tyre ;)

 

I find my handling to be alright to be honest. The 315s at the back also hold up great :)

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I'm running 9.5J ET30 fronts and have been for years. No issues at all with arch clearance even now that I'm on coilovers.

 

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/05/cf031d2626ab53a1bc1923846f94afe9.jpg

 

The only issue I had was that, when I fitted UK brakes, my wheel was too close to the caliper without actually hitting it. So I fitted 3mm spacers and it now sits like this:

 

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/05/064893109a6dd94daeb7dbf32a188630.jpg

 

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/05/05/3a34151f6f1b800ff4dc1296341ec53a.jpg

 

It still clears the arches and I have no issues with rubbing.

 

What size font tyres are you running?

 

Do you reckon you'd of gotten away with a 5mm spaced to give you ET25? As that's the offset of the new 9.5J front wheels I'm looking at.

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