How easy is it to fit 9.5j wheels?

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Post Mon Aug 03, 2009 8:56 pm

As stated just after a bit of info into fitting 9.5j wheels to the rear of an e30 ,7.5j fronts or do they go straight on or is there any problems to look out for cheers
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Post Mon Aug 03, 2009 9:43 pm

Fronts should be ok but the rears the arches will need to be rolled offset needs to be about ET15 and it would help to stretch the tyres

What are the wheels?
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Post Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:35 pm

What Lee said above, 9J just about fit with stretched tyres but anything bigger, you'll need to do some work to the arch, roll/flare :)
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Post Tue Aug 04, 2009 1:44 pm

Sounds like arch work time.
Ive found the perfect wheels for mine but 9.5j on the back with an offset of -1 without the adapters is going to be tough!
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Post Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:14 pm

leeparkes wrote:Fronts should be ok but the rears the arches will need to be rolled offset needs to be about ET15 and it would help to stretch the tyres

What are the wheels?
Quite fancy a set of borbet a's like the look of wider rims on the back,me archers are alredy rolled done by prev owner wouldn't you get away with a smaller tyre wall like 205 40/35 16 thanks for the advice chaps :D