MK5 Golf GTI
All Things Mk5 => Modifications & Technical Area => Cosmetic/Interior Modifications => Topic started by: SL03 JOE on December 04, 2012, 10:24:01 am
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Hi, I'm looking at getting some new wheels after Xmas and I was just wondering what size the front wheels could be in width?
Ill be going for 18" but I'm not sure wether to go 8/8.5/9/9.5
Anyone got any idea and what ET you'd need? Ideally don't want to smash or do arch work. But I'm looking to get as much rubber on the road as I possibly can :)
Thanks Joe.
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I think the max on the fronts is 8.5 and rears are 9.5s without any arch rolling. Lowering should help as it tucks them in. I have 18x8 on front and 18x9 rears with no problems with lowering springs
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I think the max on the fronts is 8.5 and rears are 9.5s without any arch rolling. Lowering should help as it tucks them in. I have 18x8 on front and 18x9 rears with no problems with lowering springs
Cheers mate, I like the SNAs but there only 9J wide :(
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I have 8.5j on on the front and 9.5j on the back. Back has 30mm spacers on. Also running some very subtle tyre stretch. Offset is 30 (I think).
I can post pictures if you want to see the real thing. It does look quite flush and I'm running 18" wheels.
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Yeah if you could please mate that'd be great!
Think if fronts were rolled I'd get 9J on front ? Lol
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Yeah if you could please mate that'd be great!
Think if fronts were rolled I'd get 9J on front ? Lol
On the front i'm pretty much on the edge - looks very flush so if you want to go for 9J, rolling is probably going to be the best bet! As you can see below, on the back my golfs wide as! Sweet nonetheless. Could be dropped at the back at bit more to better the stance (which will also help you get the wide look).
:)
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Looks mint that! :congrats:
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Looks mint that! :congrats:
Thanks! Can't wait to get the car back and drop it at the back. Gunna look sooo sweet :)
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Omg, I know that car and that is hythe tesco isn't it? Haha small world!
Yeah looking good mate!
I just need to find some wheels think TD just for winter.
Joe
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Omg, I know that car and that is hythe tesco isn't it? Haha small world!
Yeah looking good mate!
I just need to find some wheels think TD just for winter.
Joe
Haha yes it is the Hythe tesco! Was wondering if you'd pick up on that! Winter wheels! Wish I could sort myself out!
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Omg, I know that car and that is hythe tesco isn't it? Haha small world!
Yeah looking good mate!
I just need to find some wheels think TD just for winter.
Joe
Haha yes it is the Hythe tesco! Was wondering if you'd pick up on that! Winter wheels! Wish I could sort myself out!
Well ATM I have some genuine mint black monzas with all new perrli tyres. But think I may sell the monzas and get some TDs if interested in them. But if keep tyres I think.
I used to see you alot around town, I used to have a blue mkiv r32 supercharged with black wheels at the time
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Omg, I know that car and that is hythe tesco isn't it? Haha small world!
Yeah looking good mate!
I just need to find some wheels think TD just for winter.
Joe
Haha yes it is the Hythe tesco! Was wondering if you'd pick up on that! Winter wheels! Wish I could sort myself out!
Well ATM I have some genuine mint black monzas with all new perrli tyres. But think I may sell the monzas and get some TDs if interested in them. But if keep tyres I think.
I used to see you alot around town, I used to have a blue mkiv r32 supercharged with black wheels at the time
Small world. I think I do remember seeing you and think nice but yeh not around town as often but still around! I also had a mk4 r32 at stage 2 in black a while back. What price you selling the monzas? If vw don't fix my golf I may not need winter wheels but hopefully they will!
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Oh cool, I did remember seeing a black when I had my old MKV.
I'm not sure mate ill have to let you know, off give us an offer!
Which VW you take it to? If colchester or Chelmsford your a brave man!! Lol
Every time they touched mine they f*cked it up worse!!
Joe
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Haha neither! Its at vw hq atm as the dealer in st albans I went to couldn't find anything wrong, although they broke it in the first place! There most certainly is though!
My offer definately would be enough as haven't got much cash lying around but we'll see.
I take it you want that wide stance on your Ed30....which when done properly looks sweet as?
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Haha neither! Its at vw hq atm as the dealer in st albans I went to couldn't find anything wrong, although they broke it in the first place! There most certainly is though!
My offer definately would be enough as haven't got much cash lying around but we'll see.
I take it you want that wide stance on your Ed30....which when done properly looks sweet as?
Oh that's good then, what did they do?
Well I'm look for wide stance and grip. Being stage I already and it's an animal!
Will be going stage II very soon! Intercooler came this morning so all is well and hopefully tbe later next week.
Tbh I'm stuck between stance and performance but I love both lol!
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Haha neither! Its at vw hq atm as the dealer in st albans I went to couldn't find anything wrong, although they broke it in the first place! There most certainly is though!
My offer definately would be enough as haven't got much cash lying around but we'll see.
I take it you want that wide stance on your Ed30....which when done properly looks sweet as?
Oh that's good then, what did they do?
Well I'm look for wide stance and grip. Being stage I already and it's an animal!
Will be going stage II very soon! Intercooler came this morning so all is well and hopefully tbe later next week.
Tbh I'm stuck between stance and performance but I love both lol!
You can juggle both-ish. I'm told my car has a good stance but if stopped at the back will look even better. Its probably my wheels/camber but I topped 125 on the track before I went "this is too sketchy to continue". Stage 1 Ed30 will be better than mine...mines fast but just feels too heavy. Stage 2 will be a lot better hopefully. How's the move from the r32 to the gti?
Vw in a routine service managed to forget to tighten numerous bolts across the engine bay resulting in them flying across causing damage to various parts. "we cantnfind anything wring" they said!
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Haha neither! Its at vw hq atm as the dealer in st albans I went to couldn't find anything wrong, although they broke it in the first place! There most certainly is though!
My offer definately would be enough as haven't got much cash lying around but we'll see.
I take it you want that wide stance on your Ed30....which when done properly looks sweet as?
Oh that's good then, what did they do?
Well I'm look for wide stance and grip. Being stage I already and it's an animal!
Will be going stage II very soon! Intercooler came this morning so all is well and hopefully tbe later next week.
Tbh I'm stuck between stance and performance but I love both lol!
You can juggle both-ish. I'm told my car has a good stance but if stopped at the back will look even better. Its probably my wheels/camber but I topped 125 on the track before I went "this is too sketchy to continue". Stage 1 Ed30 will be better than mine...mines fast but just feels too heavy. Stage 2 will be a lot better hopefully. How's the move from the r32 to the gti?
Vw in a routine service managed to forget to tighten numerous bolts across the engine bay resulting in them flying across causing damage to various parts. "we cantnfind anything wring" they said!
Yeah that's what I'm going to do hopefully :)
Yeah stage I is mad! Well I had a stage II MKV GTi before the r32 so it's not so bad. The r32 just sounded amazing! We're ATM my MKV I'd standard apart from map, but as I said wont be long :)
My stage II GTi made about 270bhp that was bluefin though not like mapping! My ed30 currently on bluefin but will go love map when go stage II and III
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Haha neither! Its at vw hq atm as the dealer in st albans I went to couldn't find anything wrong, although they broke it in the first place! There most certainly is though!
My offer definately would be enough as haven't got much cash lying around but we'll see.
I take it you want that wide stance on your Ed30....which when done properly looks sweet as?
Oh that's good then, what did they do?
Well I'm look for wide stance and grip. Being stage I already and it's an animal!
Will be going stage II very soon! Intercooler came this morning so all is well and hopefully tbe later next week.
Tbh I'm stuck between stance and performance but I love both lol!
You can juggle both-ish. I'm told my car has a good stance but if stopped at the back will look even better. Its probably my wheels/camber but I topped 125 on the track before I went "this is too sketchy to continue". Stage 1 Ed30 will be better than mine...mines fast but just feels too heavy. Stage 2 will be a lot better hopefully. How's the move from the r32 to the gti?
Vw in a routine service managed to forget to tighten numerous bolts across the engine bay resulting in them flying across causing damage to various parts. "we cantnfind anything wring" they said!
Yeah that's what I'm going to do hopefully :)
Yeah stage I is mad! Well I had a stage II MKV GTi before the r32 so it's not so bad. The r32 just sounded amazing! We're ATM my MKV I'd standard apart from map, but as I said wont be long :)
My stage II GTi made about 270bhp that was bluefin though not like mapping! My ed30 currently on bluefin but will go love map when go stage II and III
Sounds wicked yours and just from a map! I did love the r32 and the miltek exhaust - you just wanted to drive fast to hear it! Just got to get stage 2 sorted now to complements the looks of my golf.
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Yeah it's good fun, yeah I know what you mean! That R32 used to do 160+ easy!
Yeah if you got the looks gotta have the power ;)
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
Yeah exactly, mine was running 400bhp my R32 ;)
Yeah replicas are just for wheels haha
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
Yeah exactly, mine was running 400bhp my R32 ;)
Yeah replicas are just for wheels haha
Ahhhhh makes me want it back now! Sounds like one beast of a golf. Bet it looked the part aswell.
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
Yeah exactly, mine was running 400bhp my R32 ;)
Yeah replicas are just for wheels haha
Ahhhhh makes me want it back now! Sounds like one beast of a golf. Bet it looked the part aswell.
Yeah I thought about a mk5 one but there just so expensive to tune!
Yeah had front mount hanging out the front lol
Not long and MKV will look the same lol
Joe
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
Yeah exactly, mine was running 400bhp my R32 ;)
Yeah replicas are just for wheels haha
Ahhhhh makes me want it back now! Sounds like one beast of a golf. Bet it looked the part aswell.
Yeah I thought about a mk5 one but there just so expensive to tune!
Yeah had front mount hanging out the front lol
Not long and MKV will look the same lol
Joe
Oh I need to see that! I swear my stance effects the ESP as on a DRY corner it kicked in and I got no power. Arghh.
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Makes me wanna go back! Rapid as it was. I'm notneven sub 5 seconds on the 0-60! Things will be changing though!
Gotta have the power - damn straight. None of this replica rubbish haha!!
Yeah exactly, mine was running 400bhp my R32 ;)
Yeah replicas are just for wheels haha
Ahhhhh makes me want it back now! Sounds like one beast of a golf. Bet it looked the part aswell.
Yeah I thought about a mk5 one but there just so expensive to tune!
Yeah had front mount hanging out the front lol
Not long and MKV will look the same lol
Joe
Oh I need to see that! I swear my stance effects the ESP as on a DRY corner it kicked in and I got no power. Arghh.
Yeah that's quite possibly but you never know! What area of colchester you from?
Joe
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I just turn it off half the time now! Does no end of good trying to get places. Not in colchester anymore altho not too far away - just across the border in east herts. Was based just 2 mins from hythe tesco.
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I just turn it off half the time now! Does no end of good trying to get places. Not in colchester anymore altho not too far away - just across the border in east herts. Was based just 2 mins from hythe tesco.
Oh I see, yeah I rarely have mine on lol.
Oh In the army then?
Joe
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I just turn it off half the time now! Does no end of good trying to get places. Not in colchester anymore altho not too far away - just across the border in east herts. Was based just 2 mins from hythe tesco.
Oh I see, yeah I rarely have mine on lol.
Oh In the army then?
Joe
I need to trust my instinct more, No not in the forces although it seems where I live there is some sort of training base/garrison. On not so exciting graduate scheme!
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I just turn it off half the time now! Does no end of good trying to get places. Not in colchester anymore altho not too far away - just across the border in east herts. Was based just 2 mins from hythe tesco.
Oh I see, yeah I rarely have mine on lol.
Oh In the army then?
Joe
I need to trust my instinct more, No not in the forces although it seems where I live there is some sort of training base/garrison. On not so exciting graduate scheme!
Yeah best way when driving fast, oh that's good I guess! I enter the world after college no uni for me! Haha
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Yep definately need to just trust the car more. Just with esp off. Got so many things lined up for January....not only for the golf - getting a new job hopefully. Wish I never went to uni, but its opened more doors for me so I can't complain.
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Yep definately need to just trust the car more. Just with esp off. Got so many things lined up for January....not only for the golf - getting a new job hopefully. Wish I never went to uni, but its opened more doors for me so I can't complain.
Yeah know what you mean, oh that's good then mate. Hopefully there's some local mk5 meets around this area next year
Joe
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There's a meet just outside of Chelmsford this Saturday which is gunna be big. Not VW specific but performance/modded cars. I'm going with a mate but should be good!...but yeh need to get a few a GTi meets in the area! Wouldn't mind seeing your golf when modded up!! :laugh:
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There's a meet just outside of Chelmsford this Saturday which is gunna be big. Not VW specific but performance/modded cars. I'm going with a mate but should be good!...but yeh need to get a few a GTi meets in the area! Wouldn't mind seeing your golf when modded up!! :laugh:
Yeah nice, is that renegade?
Yeah you'll see me about mate always am and around tollgate area.
Joe
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haha yes! i'll be off the line first....... :grin:.....hopefully!
Erm this thing on saturday is essex cruise scene's christmas party/meet. Loads of clubs going, indoor show cars, music etc etc. Should be a good night.
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haha yes! i'll be off the line first....... :grin:.....hopefully!
Erm this thing on saturday is essex cruise scene's christmas party/meet. Loads of clubs going, indoor show cars, music etc etc. Should be a good night.
Oh thought so, haha maybe.
Oh right yeah I know which one you mean now.