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Spacers required for wheel upgrade?

Chuck_Norris · 2011-06-14 19:18:38

Evening all. Bit of advice required. I've a thread going in motoring on the pros and cons of buying second hand alloys, but the question I want to ask here is this: The car is a 06 Octavia. Wheels are OE spec 195/65/15, and I'm thinking of getting 235/45/16, which is the wheel size on the vRS. Will I need spacers, or does…

14-06-2011 07:18PM

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Chuck_Norris

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Evening all.

Bit of advice required. I've a thread going in motoring on the pros and cons of buying second hand alloys, but the question I want to ask here is this:

The car is a 06 Octavia. Wheels are OE spec 195/65/15, and I'm thinking of getting 235/45/16, which is the wheel size on the vRS. Will I need spacers, or does it depend on the wheels in question?

The current offset is 47mm, but the offset on the vRS is 54mm.

Any advice/info greatly appreciated.

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#2 14-06-2011 10:53PM

Wheelnut

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If I understand you correctly, spacers will increase the off-set and the new wheels already have a bigger off-set, so you will not need spacers. However, you knew enough about off-sets to ask the question so maybe I'm missing something!

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