borbet type A's. will they fit?

[Bmwbro]

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=7912024130&category=43957#ebayphotohosting

will these fit my 88ix?

i was told that a good offset for a wheel on an IX would be around et30-40.


these are et13. are there some kind of spacers?

and im guessing these rims are 4x100. but im not sure. he dosen't verify.

[Mystikal]

Those would be about 2-3" PAST your fenders. Wheel too wide, offset way too low.

[nando]

not a chance. ET25 is about the max on the ix with a 7" wide wheel, ET35 for a 7.5" wheel with 225s. ET13 might work with a 5.5" wheel, but not an 8.8!

they probably would "fit" on a stock height ix, but that would look incredibly stupid and you'd rub badly everytime you took a hard corner.

lastly, 17" is way too big for an ix.. other E30s can get away with it because they can lower their cars more, you'll look like a hick running 17s on an ix. BBS makes a nice lightweight 16x7" ET35 wheel (12lbs), you could run 225/45-16 on it and it would look mean :)

oh yeah.. those are 5 lug too. ;)

[Mystikal]

oh yeah.. those are 5 lug too. ;)

Actually they are 4, but I just noticed 4x108. So they wouldn't work at all.

[riverdale21]

Thats the bolt pattern for a Ford Focus (4x108) so nada.

[trashcop 80s 80s]

Could those be redrilled to 4x100?

[Rob]

redrilling :?

[trashcop 80s 80s]

redrilling :?

It would be like dual drill wheels, except you could cover up all the holes with the center caps.

[Rob]

drilling wheels is ultra ghetto IMHO

[trashcop 80s 80s]

As long as they're covered up I wouldn't have a problem with it, why, because I'd be rolling on 17x8.5 Borbet As.

How far would these stick out on a 325i?

[nando]

you could buy those eccentric lugs like nico had. I'm not sure if they'd fit, but you'd need serious fender rolling for sure. it looks like they'll go cheap too, everyone is asking if they are 4x100 (probably other VW/E30 nuts).

[Mystikal]

You wouldn't need rolling, you'd need slight flaring. These things are way out there.

[riverdale21]

With an et13 I would imagine they wouldn't be sticking out much further than the width of a finger. 7mm isn't that bad. If you wanted Borbet Type-A's bad enough and cheap enough I wouldn't see any wrong in redrilling. It doesn't seem as ghetto to me as anyone else. I've owned multi lug wheels before they dont look that bad. And these will be covered. Just be sure to find a good machine shop to redrill them for you.

[Digitalwave]

With an et13 I would imagine they wouldn't be sticking out much further than the width of a finger. 7mm isn't that bad. If you wanted Borbet Type-A's bad enough and cheap enough I wouldn't see any wrong in redrilling. It doesn't seem as ghetto to me as anyone else. I've owned multi lug wheels before they dont look that bad. And these will be covered. Just be sure to find a good machine shop to redrill them for you.

But these rims are also 8.5" wide, a good inch or inch and a half wider than most rims people run.

[Mystikal]

Exactly. Sure, they are only 12mm off the magic ET25. But they are also an inch wider than the 7.5" wheels used to get that measurement. So if an ET25 7.5" wheel just barely fits (with 225 rubber), these are exactly an inch past that. That kind of modification is major.