Biggest wheel inside an E30 M3 arch ?

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Deano
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Post Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:15 pm

As title really .

A mate of a mate is selling some 19" BBS LMs of his E36 M3


Question is do they fit an E30 M3 ?
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Post Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:02 pm

hi
i would say no

yes i agree they are 5 stud but the offsets on these two cars are very different
e30 m3 has low offsets standard 16" wheel has offset of 27

ithink you will find that e36 is much higher

also tho iam not going to say its impossible 19s will not work without a lot of work

18s go on but offsets have to be bang on and it involves arch rolling etc

you really would be getting into a very griefy area

just my thorts

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Post Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:34 pm

I think you would struggle with 19"'s although I have seen 18's on an e30 m3 without any arch modifications. Someone on another forum (s14.net) worked out that even with the lowest profile tyre the overall diameter would be on the large side.