15s without lowering?

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silly me, i made the stupid mistake of thinking the size of the wheel could be calculated with a mesaure tape. oh how wrong was i?
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Biddle wrote:Bstarschild I dont know whether its the ground you have parked on but your car looks quite high compaired to mine in the pic your posted up. Im on 195/45/15's also but it just looks lower thats all. I definately need to get it lowered soon tho.
It stayed like that for week and then it got dropped :wink:
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Mine WHEN it WASNT lowerd:
these are 15's
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if you put 15's on. how much would you recomend lowering by... because if just bought sum 15's :O bieng deliverd in 8 weeks:O how flopin long away is that!
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well, are you going to be buying coilovers? springs? springs+shocks? if its coilovers, just wound down till your happy, springs i would say about 60mm MAX, and also depends on what tyres you will be running, in that pic they were 195/50/15
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lol yeh i dont think mine are 15s actually, alrite then pros where do i emasure from? inside the wheel?
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JoeG07 wrote:lol yeh i dont think mine are 15s actually, alrite then pros where do i emasure from? inside the wheel?
Look at the tyre size! You're never going to get it right messing about with a tape measure. Look at the tyre size info on the sidewall.

Or, alternatively, it may be stamped into the back of the wheel.
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Redline wrote:
JoeG07 wrote:lol yeh i dont think mine are 15s actually, alrite then pros where do i emasure from? inside the wheel?
Look at the tyre size! You're never going to get it right messing about with a tape measure. Look at the tyre size info on the sidewall.

Or, alternatively, it may be stamped into the back of the wheel.
i will if it ever stops raining :lol:
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my wheels are on now il get a pic up soon :)
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CymruPolo wrote:
bstardchild wrote:
Biddle wrote:Bstarschild I dont know whether its the ground you have parked on but your car looks quite high compaired to mine in the pic your posted up. Im on 195/45/15's also but it just looks lower thats all. I definately need to get it lowered soon tho.
It stayed like that for week and then it got dropped :wink:
Bloody hell, haven't seen you post on here in ageeeesss!! :o Did you sell the Polo or something?
Nope still got it - just life got in the way a bit :roll:
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coup wrote:is this gonna look terrible? i read a post and most of you said its gonna look like its on stilts :| haha any1 got any pics of 15s without lowering? cheers
Mine looked pretty bad with 15" BBS RA rims with 195/50/15s. I got 40mm Pi suspension kit from my old car if you want a cheap kit. One of the front shocks is slightly bent so you might wan2 use factory front shocks with 40mm springs and change the whole rear to shocks and springs.

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in my eyes 15's look gash on a polo that isnt lowered......actually any polo looks gash when it isnt lowered IMO of course! :D
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195/45/15 Standard ride height:

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The garages aren't actually leaning over like that, its just me, the camera & car that are leaning downhill :D

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