rim size

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:41 pm

hey adam, what colour is your car and also what size wheels are you thinking of getting

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:44 pm

i believe this answers both mate...

if you mean exact colour i don't know but it looks like yours to me

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:48 pm

scalas i see, do you know the code for the colour, iv NEVER seen another helios blue polo, its a rare colour, teh code is la5y, does it change colour in teh sun, like a tint of purple and a bit of green? how wide are the rims though is what i ment lol

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:52 pm

i'd say my car is more just a standard royal blue kinda colour so probably not helios....and wheels are 14" 6j ET38 so should go on fine as long as i only have 165-175 tyres....

but i really don't want scrubbage at all....i've been pretty much re-asured now that they'll fit.....that's if i ever even finish refurbing them, got 1 wheel left to do which will take about 2-3 hours and i just can't seem to get started on it

k4lps · Post by **k4lps** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:55 pm

adam those wheels should be fine with 175 tires but you might get scrubbing at the front on the inner arch near the steering rack on full lock and at the top of the arch on the plasic liner and the wing all of which disserpires when the catching bits of plasitc liner has melted off and the inside thread of the tire wears away

i say might because i have wheels with 175/70 13 tires which are of a golf so the profile is wrong for a polo

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 5:58 pm

you should mirror polish them, would REALLY set your car off, i was thinking of geting black rims with a chrome lip, but since i seen these rims on my car there is no way im geting anything else i love it, do you think i should mirror polish tehse rims or just leave them how they are, im VERY tempted to mirror polish them lol

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:01 pm

oh and also you should debump it, it makes a HUGEEEEEEE difference lol

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:05 pm

great minds think alike aparently

mirror polished already....and as for the bumps, i don't trust people enough to take them off....plus knowing the polo that strip is probably the main safety feature for accidents to the side

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:08 pm

i see lol, oh well...im more fashion over function to a certain extent lol, you think i should mirror polish my rims?, and also did you do it your self and was it really that hard?

Mk2Adam · Post by **Mk2Adam** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:14 pm

tupac2makaveli71 wrote:i see lol, oh well...im more fashion over function to a certain extent lol, you think i should mirror polish my rims?, and also did you do it your self and was it really that hard?

i'd say no to those wheels, just wouldn't look right imo...and yeah i did them myself and yeah it was bloody hard work

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:19 pm

I think you should get 165/55/14s. there isnt really a 175 section tyre available thats a suitable profile. (well theres 175/50 but they cost a fortune!) If you want to lower your car any, these are a safe bet.

Tahrey1043 · Post by **Tahrey1043** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 12:39 am

wouldn't recco you go too fast up the m'way with 'em on if you're getting frequent rubbage - you're just begging for a sidewall blowout, and i had that recently. big fun at 70mph trying to figure out what that bump was and what the loud ticking noise now coming over the music is, then your eyes going like

when you realise 1/ you havent got a CD headunit, 2/ its from outside (3/ just how f***ed it is when you stop and look at it, 4/ how close you came to spinning out and doing an armco cartwheel)
(if for no other reason than changing a big wheel like that is a right pain in not only the arse, but the vertebra and arms)

195/60/15 is the tyre size on my spec. ed.* astra and i tell ya now... them's big fookers. once toyed with the idea of putting them on the polo when both were sharing a driveway, just for a laugh (and putting the ickle 145/80/13s on the assy) but lol'd out and gave up at the initial measurement.....

i do have to applaud the mentalism of someone squashing them onto a mk2 steilheck without rolling the arches or doing any of that kind of work, but, seriously man..... too big

... sort the arches and put 205/45s on it

handling must be uber, however

as i certainly know i wouldnt want to chuck the heavy vaux around without them any more, sooo sticky even with about +400kg over the polo

* i can't quite bring myself to add the "ial" & "ition"... leaving it look like "ialist" and "ucation" is far more appropriate!

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:00 pm

i do have to applaud the mentalism of someone squashing them onto a mk2 steilheck without rolling the arches

thats why i said it was a test run mate, but they fit ALOT better then i thought they would, and i am going to do the archwork now when the weather around here clears up!!! obviously im not going to put them on my car when i know its dangerous, i stuck ma fingerbetween the gap of the wheel and rear arch and it didnt fit!!! there was about 5mm clearence if that lol, lookd great though, but i wont be able to lower my car now

, but think of it this way, everyone loweres their cars, but not everyone has 195/50/15 on a polo lol

Gareth_GT_Hatch · Post by **Gareth_GT_Hatch** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 4:19 pm

tupac2makaveli71 wrote:but think of it this way, everyone loweres their cars, but not everyone has 195/50/15 on a polo lol

With good reason I think!

tupac2makaveli71 · Post by **tupac2makaveli71** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 6:43 pm

also true lol, but doesnt make my car any less unique! or unsafe for that matter once im done with the arch work...just ordered window tints so thats going to be the next big thing i do