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Old 08-07-2009, 06:43 AM
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What spacers to get for my 17x8.5 rears

I put some AMG wheels on the car. 17x7.5 +30 and 17x8.5+37 wheels with 205/50r17 and 225/45r17 tires. I'm using 15mm spacers on the front, so that gives me an effective offset of +15mm on a 7.5" wide wheel. I don't have anything in the back and they sit to far inward to match up good with the front. I've been doing some searching and people have used a wide variety of offsets on their cars. The 225's on the 8.5 wheels are stretched on pretty good, so I was trying to decide between 20mm and 25mm spacers. The 20 would give me a +17 offset and the 25 would give me a +12mm offset. I've seen where guys have put 8.5" wheels with +11 offsets on the rear, but I haven't seen what sort of inner fender mods are necessary if they even are necessary. The spacers and lugs are $70, so I don't want to get something that won't work.

The other idea is to swap the 15mm spacers to the rear and get some 5mm or 10mm spacers for the front. I do want to lower the car 1.5"-2.0" in the future.

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Old 08-08-2009, 11:29 AM
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Its amazing the transformation that bigger factory rims can make when installed on the 123 chassis ,lowering just enhances it further .Im in for some 19s ,the front wont be a bother the backs will need some real thought though ,I like your cars results.

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Old 08-08-2009, 12:35 PM
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Thanks!

I put new calipers and pads on the front yesterday. In the process of that one of my adapters broke. Luckily the fronts fit with no issues with no spacers. So I'm just going to run it that way. Now I can lower it 2"-3" and the wheels will tuck in nicely.

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