Pictoral evidence showing the dangers of stretched/undersized tires.

[Mossman]

So let me paint you a sad picture. In fact I will use pictures so you don't have to think too much.

So for an entire year I've been driving around in my nice comfortable bone stock 6 series that I could actually pull into driveways and drive on Boston roads with. I drove it in the snow, I didn't wash it for months at a time, we had a great one way relationship, the way it should be. Here he is, his name is Hank.




Then I got the stance primo/homo bug, and I had to go and ruin everything. I got used bilstein sports on ebay and between a spare set of ghetto coils and the coils and camber plates that were on my project turbo e30, I slapped this together and threw em on the car:





I got the stance just where I wanted it, high enough that I don't scrape going into my driveway or bottom out, but low enough to look mean.



Bought these 16x9.5 diamonds in the rough:




Refinished:


Now comes the problem...the day I decide to stretch 225/45/16's on 9.5" wheels.

In my quest for stance primo/homo whatever is cool these days I decided that 225's were what I needed. Got just one tire mounted to check fitment front and rear, make sure its all gonna work, and that's where the problems started.













It looks like a friggen 4x4! I'm gonna have to drop it another inch and a half, putting my oil pan about 2 waffleswaffleswaffleswaffles hair widths off the ground.

God damn whichever one of you brought this VW nonsense to the BMW world and forced me to catch the bug.

Tomorrow I have to yank the front coils off, cut off the stock perch and put a new perch on lower. It's never ending, and stance primo/homo is all to blame.

I'm going to do e34 brakes, and instead of the IE camber plates modify a set of stock strut hats for more camber. This means at least a couple days i'll be driving a shitty pickup truck instead of Hank, and when he's done he's going to be too low to get out of my driveway.

Thanks stance homo, you've ruined my life. But Hank is gonna look dead sexy when I'm done with him.

[Leaf]

I expected more...

[daniel]

you should have 255's on those wheels, if not wider. make sure they are the proper diameter also otherwise you will have that fender gap issue.

[vlad]

that shark needs restoration

[balooshinakus]

I think the real danger is just how stupid you look driving around with a tire that is way too small for the rim it's on tbh..

[dannyyisntt]

that shark needs restoration

+1

[Collin]

I was expecting a bloody/firey crash scene, not your poor choice in tires.

[structured]

This thread makes me a sad panda.

[Mossman]

drunk mossman wishes he had his own body shop so he could talk down at people from the northeast with a 1"x1" rusty patch on their daily.

It won't look like a poor choice in tires when I'm tucking them bitches. Although I'll definitely tear my valence off and crack my oil pan immediately so you guys can make fun of me for that.

[Dave McLaren]

I'd put the style 5s back on.

[trent]

that car is now just a pile with undersized tires.

[8380 Labs]

should look dope once you get it a bit lower.

[Mossman]

thanks LED jetta. VW dudes know whats up :) 9.5s in front are large, cannot fit tires anywhere near square, I test fitted with 255's it was a joke. In fact in back 255's rubbed when I ran over pebbles at stock height. My spacers are 35mm bringing offset to around 0, that's part of the problem. I was still contemplating 245's or something like that in back, but now I'm gonna rock 225's space the wheels out a few mm further with the 225's and make new threads every week just to anger r3v. yayyyyy.

[JZM3]

you stretch tires so that you can go lower, if you didn't want to go lower you should of left it as it was with the style 5's or you should have bought tires with a bigger sidewall.
its not rocket science.

[Jean]

I was expecting a bloody/firey crash scene, not your poor choice in tires.

stretched/undersized tires = teh gay