Wheels for IX ( need help please! )

[Mauiwowi]

ok.. sorry for all the question threads, but i am not the smartest car guy, not even close. and unless the search feature offers a exact answer, i need help.

Can someone dumb down for me what exactly i would need to do to run some ESM bbs reps (16x 7.5 4x100 et38 ) safely without ruining anything on my car.

http://esmwheels.com/access/wheels-002sl-p-49.html?cPath=21_34_62

few things

• I dont know what centerbore is at all?

• i also hardly know what offset really is. I know my IX weaves are ET 41 and those are 38, which seems close? would spacers fix that?

• Will i have problems running these wheels due to the fender flares? I plan on lowering the car in the near future but not by much at all ( that will be my next thread ;) )



thanks alot guys, i really want to get this car right for the summer! and keep my ix weaves for winter wheels.

[nando]

those will fit directly. they're ET35, which is about perfect for a 7.5" wheel on the ix. You can choose 51.7mm, 16x7.5, ET35 when you add them to your cart..

don't worry about spacers. stock fitment is *extremely* conservative. also, spacers would lower the offset, not increase it. There's a chance you may need a tiny spacer (3mm) to clear the brake calipers up front (not because of ix, but because of E30 - all E30 4-lug front brakes are the same). They'd still fit fine at ET32 effective offset.

you should easily be able to fit a 215 or 225 tire on there, with a 40 or 45 sidewall. or a 235 r-comp if you're feeling adventurous. ;)

[Mauiwowi]

Exactly what i was looking for! thanks NANDO you are the man. You should see me cruising around bellingham soon.

[Mauiwowi]

hey nando, maybe im blind but i dont see 51.7 on the drop down list of sizes? do you mean 57.1?

[nando]

Yeah

[widebodye30]

et 35 is perfect for a IX;)

[Kershaw]

no its not.

with a 7.5" wide rim an ET around 30 is going to look decent in the front. you're going to need ET 20 in the rear.

et35 is going to tuck like crazy, especially in the rear.

unless you dont care about stancehellaflushhipness.

[nando]

Dude... Dude... How many wheel/tire sets have you had on an ix? :p

They are wider. They dont need as much offset. And if you want wide rubber on a 7.5" wheel, et35 is the ticket.

Et20 in the rear - LOL. They will poke out the fenders, and even a 205 will rub like mad. 16x7.5 et20 is a hopelessly lame fitment on an ix.

[Kershaw]

3 sets. i think i meant et25 in the rear. :) i cant wait to get my BBS RS' on my ix this spring. 15x7 et26 and im hoping to stuff 225/50s on them. i'll post pics. although 205 already rubbed the sidewall with this set up, but it was only on really hard cornering and the fenders were not rolled. but im ok with a little rubbing. and the rears could definitely come out 1/2".

im not shooting for hellaflushneedcambercorrectionstance, but it should be pretty flush. and i have a few sets of spacers to correct things if it isnt flush enough. especially for the rear. im just thinking that the bilstein hds and h&r sports combo might not be enough. but the rx8 will get coilovers soon, so the ix will have to wait.

ixs tend to have pretty conservative fitments. :(

[nando]

Not going to fit - a 7" rim with an offset around 25mm leaves you with a 205, max. A 7.5" or 8" would be worse.

i have no idea why you think the rear needs spacers. On 205s with et24 you couldnt fit a waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles hair between my tire and the rear fenders. Oh, its gonna rub with those springs, and rolling wont help. ;)

[Kershaw]

i've already done it with a 205 (et24 even) and i had plenty of room to spare. and the fenders werent even touched.

[Chruby99]

I have a set of 16x7.5 et38 on mine. It fits great. I have 205s on them and clearance is great with stock suspension. The back end loaded down does not rub. There is fingers with between the front strut and tire, but I run GY eagle gt AS and they have an abnormally large bead. kinda off road style. My old tires would have had even more clearance

[Kershaw]

15x7 et24, 205/50. you can see that the front is pretty good, but 5mm more definitely wouldnt hurt. but the back end has quite a ways to go. i really cant stand the later rear arches, it makes a good stance very difficult without adjustable coilovers. :(

http://i.imgur.com/iIFkT.jpg from the front.

the RSs currently have old and cracked 225s on them, i'll throw them on and see how badly they rub and post up.

i just want to see more people pushing the offset boundaries in ixs.

[Mauiwowi]

this is possibly a retarted question, but you cant bring the front down a tiny bit to even it out nicely?

[nando]

15x7 et24, 205/50. you can see that the front is pretty good, but 5mm more definitely wouldnt hurt. but the back end has quite a ways to go. i really cant stand the later rear arches, it makes a good stance very difficult without adjustable coilovers. :(

http://i.imgur.com/iIFkT.jpg from the front.

the RSs currently have old and cracked 225s on them, i'll throw them on and see how badly they rub and post up.

i just want to see more people pushing the offset boundaries in ixs.

those tires are undersized. also, your car wasn't very low.

you can't use a 5mm spacer in the back with an ET24 wheel in an ix! you can argue with me all you like - but they already rub INSIDE the wheel well. Not the lip, they rub on the body of the car itself!

I had 15x7 et24 many years ago. I also had 16x7.5 ET20. It's a stupid fitment. ET20 isn't a useful offset on the ix at all, unless you want to run 195s.

the 15x7 ET24 wheels were ok, but they limited you to a 205/55-15, and they still rubbed in the back with no hope of correcting it. 225s would be eveb more hopeless, unless you have it jacked up in the rear, the roads you drive on are made of glass, you never turn a corner, and you never have anything in the back.



This is what I had to do to keep the 205/55s from rubbing:


see the clean spot on the inside of the wheel well? that's where it rubs on the inside of the body. the fender arch is trimmed and the metal lip smashed flat. Unless you're going to take a BFH to your fenders you can't push the wheels out further and expect them not to rub, they still rubbed even after all this work.

ET35, however, is about perfect. it centers the wheels almost exactly - you could run a 15x8 (or 16x8), 35mm offset, and fit a 235/50-15 with some trimming and rolling of the rear lips.

maybe you think this is tucked:


imagine that tire (235s) sticking out another 15mm. it would NEVER fit. But boy, it would be hellaflush.. :p

also consider, perhaps there's a reason that BMW made the front track wider than the rear....