mitalm
Audi A3
Hi guys,
Bit bored doing work and have been thinking about things to do over the summer to my car.
I have some RS4 replica wheels on my car at the moment but they are curbed very badly pretty much all the way round on all of them (don't ask, mixture of brother and mother using the car and being unable to parallel park, and admittedly my fault a few times ).
So anyway I was wondering about refurbishing them, not currently with my car as it's at home and I am at uni so can't post any pics, but it's fair to say the edges are pretty bad.
I was thinking of taking them to The Wheel Specialist in Fareham which is the closest to me, has anyone used this exact branch or any of The Wheel Specialist branches? How did the wheels come out? I have heard good things so think it should be ok.
I was thinking Anthracite to go with the dark blue of my car, as opposed to the sports silver that the wheels are right now.
So then even after I get them refurbed the reason that they got so curbed in the first place is that the edge of the tyre stops before the face of the wheel so there is a good cm or so of rim sticking out that is continuously getting scraped against curbs, obviously this would still happen if I don't change the tyres.
So the next question is about the widest tyre that can fit onto an 8J rim? I have done a bit of looking around and it seems it is possible to fit wider tyres I'm just not sure if I need that 'special mate' at a garage to do it for me...?
I believe that right now I have 225 tyres on the car so was thinking either 235 or maybe even 245?
So yeah those are my questions, hope they don't sound too stupid.
Thanks in advance, I've usually been given really good advice so look forward to hearing from people
Mital
Bit bored doing work and have been thinking about things to do over the summer to my car.
I have some RS4 replica wheels on my car at the moment but they are curbed very badly pretty much all the way round on all of them (don't ask, mixture of brother and mother using the car and being unable to parallel park, and admittedly my fault a few times ).
So anyway I was wondering about refurbishing them, not currently with my car as it's at home and I am at uni so can't post any pics, but it's fair to say the edges are pretty bad.
I was thinking of taking them to The Wheel Specialist in Fareham which is the closest to me, has anyone used this exact branch or any of The Wheel Specialist branches? How did the wheels come out? I have heard good things so think it should be ok.
I was thinking Anthracite to go with the dark blue of my car, as opposed to the sports silver that the wheels are right now.
So then even after I get them refurbed the reason that they got so curbed in the first place is that the edge of the tyre stops before the face of the wheel so there is a good cm or so of rim sticking out that is continuously getting scraped against curbs, obviously this would still happen if I don't change the tyres.
So the next question is about the widest tyre that can fit onto an 8J rim? I have done a bit of looking around and it seems it is possible to fit wider tyres I'm just not sure if I need that 'special mate' at a garage to do it for me...?
I believe that right now I have 225 tyres on the car so was thinking either 235 or maybe even 245?
So yeah those are my questions, hope they don't sound too stupid.
Thanks in advance, I've usually been given really good advice so look forward to hearing from people
Mital