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Time for a clear out,

For sale 6 no compomotive alloys, 6 x 14, refurbished and powdered coated.
would suit track day or race cars, open to sensible offers.
courier can be arranged,

See photos below, only 4 shown in photograph, 6 available. Liam

Hi Liam,
Can you tell us the offset please. It will be written on the wheels - ET38?

Brgds
Simon

Hi Simon,

ET20,
see below link, they were fitted to the sprint racer i broke for parts.
http://www.motorsport-sales.com/index.p ... ts_id=1014

Liam

Normal question, how much?

rsfruitbat

ET38 is a big number Simon, I will let Shrew give a full description of offset, but et38 would put the wheels further under the wheel arches, ET20 further out (wider track).

Hi Rsfruitbat

£300 for the set, cheap at that,

Liam

That is cheap Liam, Compomotive MO's sell for a lot more than that, particularly this tidy!


Tim has the offset thing bang on there.

The higher the ET number the tighter inside the car they will sit, so risk of rubbing the strut, or not clearing the brakes at its extreme, and so the lower the number, the further out they will stick, so the risk becomes the complete opposite, i.e. rubbing on the wheelarch and even protruding beyond the bodywork.

That said, i always believe that you can make anything fit anything (almost!) and ET offset is a measurement taken only in millimetres difference from the centre line of the wheel, so even quite large sounding differences can often be more straight forward than they first appear, and more radical differences can often be overcome with a simple spacer or bit of minor engineering.

You have to start using a little more imagination when there's a big increase in width over standard to compensate for aswell, but then to echo my sentiment above, who'd have thought a 33, originally with 14" x 6j wheels, 185 60 14 tyres could ever accomodate 17" x 9j monsters!

But they can!