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Ouch! $$$ Lesson learned about tires.

    I'm not trying to be rude so please don't take offense to this if you already know how offsets work but here's a link that explains it fairly well:

http://www.usacomp.com/terms.htm

Do you already know what offset you have on what I'm assuming to be aftermarket rims?  Have you checked the spacing while you're sitting still... like if the outer sidewall touches the fender I'm assuming if you turn the wheels to the right it's on the upper front outer sidewall on your right side, does the rear of the tire have a lot of clearance at the back on the inner fender well?  Does the front of the left tire touch the inner fender at the same time?  If so then I don't know what to do other then try to pick up different rims.  The nice thing about this compomotive site is that on the main page there's a section I think Modular rims where you can custom request exact measurements.  Kind of cool because they just keep inners and outers in a bunch of sizes and the face and then bolt them together to order depending on how wide you want the tire, how deep the face and how much offset.  Wish I could afford that kind of nonsense.  One of the faces even looks like 80's Audi Stock fuchs.

      Rave Racer
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NEW!!  91 Jetta GLI 2.0L 16V
'81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2

'89 Jetta GTX 1.8L 16V
'87 Audi 4000 Quattro 
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'72 Triumph GT6
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Brown 
  To: scirocco scirocco 
  Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 09:44 PM
  Subject: Re: Ouch! $$$ Lesson learned about tires.


  There rubbing pretty bad. I'd say if I used them much with any type of hard cornering I'd tear a hole in them or pull body parts off. 8-)

  I'm thinking since I had 195/60/14's on it with stock rims that maybe the 195/60/14's in the non stock rims are under offset.  They do fill up the wheel wells so I really don't know.  Whatever it is it's not really drivable right now.
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: raveracer77 
    To: David Brown ; scirocco scirocco 
    Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 11:27 PM
    Subject: Re: Ouch! $$$ Lesson learned about tires.


     Are they rubbing badly?  Edgeracing.com has a great system for looking up tires by size only and then it shows you all the ones they have available in that size.  I had 195/45/14 on stock bottle caps on my Rocco for track days.  Real low profile and quick, but it would be screaming in top gear at speed because it effectively lowers the final drive ratio.  Toyo T1R seems to be the only tire that gets made in almost any size.  My street tires for after the track were some stock Saturn tires that were really narrow but very tall, taller then stock and they never rubbed.  Not great grip but I was going in a specific direction with her before I melted the fuse panel.  Now I'm going in a slightly different direction..... uh, standing still actually till I finish the 16V swap.

          Rave Racer
    Currently:
    NEW!!  91 Jetta GLI 2.0L 16V
    '81 Scirocco Mk1 1.8L 8V Digifant 2

    '89 Jetta GTX 1.8L 16V
    '87 Audi 4000 Quattro 
     http://www.audifans.com/registry/view.php?action=viewCar&carid=110
    '72 Triumph GT6
     http://www.triumphowners.com/uploaded/34/50-50-111014_20raveracer-gt6-1.jpg
     
    http://spaces.msn.com/raveracer77/photos/ 
    http://www.myspace.com/rave_racer
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      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: David Brown 
      To: scirocco scirocco 
      Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 03:23 PM
      Subject: Ouch! $$$ Lesson learned about tires.


      Well I thought I was pretty slick. I got some rims last year at Cincy. I ordered some H rated 195/60/14's from the tire rack. Both for a good price. Then had them mounted and balanced.  All ready to go and.....they rub.  The previous tires were 185/60/14's.  I had already switched them out for a set of T rated 4 season tires in 195/60/14 so I figured they'd fit just fine.  Well wrong. I forgot that the suspension on this scirocco had been lowered.  They rub on turning and bouncing.

      I figured all 195/60/14's should be the same, but evidently they are some differences.  Looks like my Jetta got a new set of summer performance tires and I've got to go tire shopping again. 8-(  Even if there the same measurements looks like some have different tread width.

      Lessons learned.

      Later
      David
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