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Old Aug 3, 2008 | 10:38 PM
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Tire suggestions

Wanting to step up from some 215/45/16 to 225/45/16, im currently on m7 springs, Will I have trouble rubbing and what tire would you recomend? I have azenis but would like a tire that last a litlle bit longer, looking into rs2's

Here the choice
http://edgeracing.com/tires/2254516


thanks for helping and if you have any other suggestion's etc, fell free!!


Jack
 
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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 08:14 AM
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Are you running stock wheels? If not, what wheel size and offset do you have?

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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 03:19 PM
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Im running 16x7 wheels with a 40mm offset
 
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 04:16 PM
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Im running 225/50 on +45 with the R56 stock height with no rubbing. A new convertible (which i think will be the same as yours) runs the same size up front and has a little bit of rubbing with the +45 offset as well, but I think a 5mm spacer fixed the problem. So you'll probably be very close but could be clear so long as the lowering didn't take too much of the space out.
 
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Old Aug 6, 2008 | 06:50 AM
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The offset is kind of low. I would with the 215 series to be safe.

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