spence15

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Eat your works! muhaahaa

HiFlite999

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For my tastes (I consider power-steering to be a work of the devil!) no negative effect, but some might consider the slightly higher steering effort a negative. Better to be informed than surprised. I also tend to like tires on the narrow side for mostly street use. Width helps in corners, but we spend most of our street time going straight and a narrow tire is much less disturbed by changes in the road surface than a wide one. Narrow also wears better and costs less. Super-wide for the street is mostly a style choice. Probably for best real-world performance one would go to a very light 17" wheel in the 7.5-8.5" range like the autocross guys seem to prefer, but that doesn't look as cool.

spence15

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"paging Atilla"

haha basically i was told that a 18x9 +35 rim will not fit the 255/35R18. Oh and to add to the story when I went to the "extreme tire garage" and told them I wanted to change the size from 18x8 +48 to the new setup they are like, "uhh why the heck do you want to change the offset and make it wider, that will move it closer to the fender." I'm like.. wowww thanksss tips thats my goal. So i'm gettiing a quote from my guy who is going to roll my fenders, seems much more knowledgable on what I'm trying to accomplish.

Oh and "Extreme tire" reccommended a 255/40R18? you think that would be ok/preferable?

Atilla

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lolwut??

how will 255's not fit a 9" wheel?? we have people putting on 225's on 10" lol. That's retarded...i guess conservative would be more appropriate for their garage title.

255/40 is just a taller sidewall. You can do this but you might wanna stick w/the 35 sidewall for appearance purposes. There's of course the argument of function but that's not what we're concerned about - right?? lol

form > function

in this case anyways lol

spence15

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EXACTLYY Atilla!

K well I'm going to go to a different place, their conservative style is becoming annoying quick.

I don't think they had a problem with the 255, they wanted to change the 35 to a 40 or 45 because of the and I quote, "change in speedo and fuel economy" and a bunch of other things.

Ok so for form do the 255/35 done.

I will update monday when I hear back from them.

spence15

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getting some work emotions now. big change in pace... this week. wahoo 18x9.5 +38 CR KAI's gunmetals with red values stickers and lugs. ca-ching ! so excited.

spence15

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teaser of the new rims. haha this week tires are coming in then just waiting on lugs and valve stems.

crappy blackberry quality





soon enough

Ross_Dawg

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I know you said you got 18x9.5 but the box says 18x8.5? Just want to make sure you noticed

spence15

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#^$@!$ wtf ahhhhhhhhh i did not notice

spence15

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omg im sooo pissed right now thank you sooooooo much for noticing though.

spence15

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Ross I want to thank you for noticing I really appreciate it.

I just looked at my quote and I did order 18x9.5 so it was there error.
I NOW HAVE 2 18X9.5'S AND 2 18X8.5'S LOL
I'm just glad it was caught now before I mounted it or tried to with tires.
I even "mock" mounted the 18x8.5 and was wondering why it didn't look much wider. EPIC idiot I am.

Thanks again rx8club.. jezz another week I bet before this error gets fixed and another week my car sits on blocks.

Ross_Dawg

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No worries bro, that's what we're here for. Hope you get the issue resolved quickly and your car gets back on the road.

Atilla

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wow...

i thought you intentionally bought 18x8.5 - to which i was going to facepalm.

but since it was a mistake - i hope everything works out well.



lol - kinda sad fact but...i could tell those weren't 18x9.5's by just looking at the face of the rim. The cr kai's have a concave face at 9.5 but not at 8.5.

Ross_Dawg

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^That's why I first did a double take. I know what the 9.5 38's look like, and those werent them lol.

spence15

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lol well im glad I have you guys around.. like I said I tottally would have mounted them and been like ****.

On another note...I got the tires today.. also just want to give credit to work and ravspec my dealer for handling everything so well. I'm overnight shipping them to cali from toronto (the 2 wrong ones) and they are covering all costs.

These companies really have GREAT customer service which I find rare these days. They got on the issue first thing in the morning and ravspec even responded to my 11pm emails last night lol.

Should have them mounted by friday, which last night was an unheard of idea. CAN'T WAIT.

Sheehan

Any pictures or updates? Curious to see these wheels and tires mounted.

spence15

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haha yea, I have had the tires for a week now, waiting on the last 2 rims that I had to send back. They arrive tommorrow 100% according to FEDEX. UNFORTUNATELY STILL WAITING ON LUGS THAT WERE SENT USPS. hmm...definately should be this week.. im banking on it.

Gr8Bullet

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go wide or go home

spence15

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9.5? 255 tire not wide enough? lol

Jedi54

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spence: it all depends on your offset.
I know two local guys here with 9.5" wide Volks who run 275 tires.
I run 275 on my 10"

pdxhak

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There is someone local to me that runs 275 front and back on his 8

spence15

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Im a +38 on all 4. haha

spence15

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rims and lugs all arrived today, i shot up got them mounted and just did some driving with the new rims/tires/ and setup.

##%#^ LOVE IT. Couldn't make them squeel and I was trying... I'm sure I could on a closed course lol. (I use to own eagle rs-A all seasons so this is a nice change in performance and handeling.

pictures TOMMORROW NOW, COULDN'T GET ALL THE DECALS ON IN TIME/ CAR CLEANED.

spence15

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Finally got the wheels on this is RIGHT AFTER mounting, way more pics to come, I also put the decal set on.

ENJOY!

18x9.5 +38 w/255/35 tire

The Reverend

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that is going to look dopeslizzle once you drop it

congrats