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Just went for it - 17" over 16"
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 12:30 pm
by Smoothie
Decided to go for the 17" wheels and worry about them fitting later!
Seen these new TSW EVO III alloys at the FastCar Full On show at The Royal Highland Show ground, Ingleston, Edinburgh on Saturday and decided to get them.
What do you think?
Re: Just went for it - 17" over 16"
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 1:48 pm
by bstardchild
Smoothie wrote:Decided to go for the 17" wheels and worry about them fitting later! Seen these new TSW EVO III alloys at the FastCar Full On show at The Royal Highland Show ground, Ingleston, Edinburgh on Saturday and decided to get them.
What do you think?
You'll need bigger brakes
Seriously - they look huge and I bet the rubber band tyres aren't cheap either...........
What did you have on the car before - only ask cos mines a white 3 door and I haven't seen many white ones with good looking wheel/tyre combinations......
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 3:34 pm
by Smoothie
Here is how it looked before. Not much of a difference!
The new brakes will come eventually but suspension will come next. Wanted to get the wheels on first so I could get a better idea of how much to lower it by. Going to drop it about 30mm.
Then plan is to get the body/paintwork up to scratch.
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:04 pm
by carmadaaron
wicked mate! imo clear lights should be next on your list. they rock on a white car!
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 4:25 pm
by PoloAV
Yeh i have to agree i got a white mk4 and got clear lights they look the boolocks, had tried tinted but they looked odd!!
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 7:23 pm
by bstardchild
PoloAV wrote:Yeh i have to agree i got a white mk4 and got clear lights they look the boolocks, had tried tinted but they looked odd!!
Got clear on the front and side of my white MKIV and the difference is fantastic - much more modern looking
Laugh is:
My track day tool (Monza GSE - featured in this months retrocar magazine - 1/4 page
) is 20 years old and that had clear ones on from new.
Both my Carltons (Lotus Carlton and 3.0 i CDX Estate) have em too
But my Senator has orange ones and you can't get clear ones for it - shame cos it would look the dogs with clear
Just off to fit me now "colour coded" rear spoiler on the Polo!!!!!
Posted: Mon May 24, 2004 11:40 pm
by KarlM
nice one
cant beat a set of 17"s on your 6n
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:00 am
by carmadaaron
a full respray then?
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:59 am
by bstardchild
Mind you looks like the rolling radius has changed a bit judging by the clearance
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:06 am
by carmadaaron
yip, itll result in an unaccurate speedo reading!
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 10:45 am
by bstardchild
carmadaaron wrote:yip, itll result in an unaccurate speedo reading!
Yeah based on std tyres being 175/65 13 quick bit of Maths says
205/30 17 = Speedo 0.5% Fast
195/35 17 = Speedo 1.9% Slow
185/35 17 = Speedo 0.6% Slow
Obviously other profiles and widths will be possible but I just looked at the likely candidates
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 12:42 pm
by Smoothie
Yep. Radius has changed a fair bit.
Seemingly if I am travelling at 70 on my clocks it will actually be doing 76. SORRY OFFICER!
I am planning to try getting the clocks recalibrated (
spelling??). There used to be a company that advertised in one of the car mags that could do this if you supplied all the nessasary info. Not sure how they actually do it though.
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 5:11 pm
by bstardchild
Smoothie wrote:Yep. Radius has changed a fair bit.
Seemingly if I am travelling at 70 on my clocks it will actually be doing 76. SORRY OFFICER!
I am planning to try getting the clocks recalibrated (
spelling??). There used to be a company that advertised in one of the car mags that could do this if you supplied all the nessasary info. Not sure how they actually do it though.
What size tyres have you put on the 17's then......
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 7:58 pm
by carmadaaron
i would imagine the smallest, which is 205/40/17s
tyres
Posted: Tue May 25, 2004 8:14 pm
by jon_poloV
you can get 195 40 17 tyres!