New wheels help please! Le Mans 19"

[Leeblade]

Hi all, I have just purchased my first audi. It's a 2004 2.4 sport v6 cabriolet. I'm in love with it already. Today I purchased some genuine 19" Le Mans wheels from a 2011 Audi they are 8.5J ET48.
The tyres are 255/35/r19.

I tried to fit the fronts first but they won't fit due to hitting the suspension. Has anyone managed to fit these to a b6 maybe using spacers? If so what size is best for front and rear.

Thanks Lee

 

[Northampton_ofn]

You want 235 tyres all round, 5mm spacers front and 10mm rear for normal fitment

A more aggressive fitment would be 15mm spacers front and 25 rear

 

[Leeblade]

Thanks for the advice! I was going to go for 10mm all round but is this something that would not look right?

 

[DieselJake]

Think you might need spigot rings too (or maybe you can get spacers with spigot ring type things already in them?), I used a ruler and just measured from the rim to the arch how much room I had to play with for mine.

 

[Northampton_ofn]

10mm all round will be fine. I was just giving you the spacing that would fill the arches evenly.

I'm not sure you can get 10mm spacers for our cars actually as I seem to recall trying once, they don't make the hub-centric ones as there wouldn't be enough material left for any strength due to the hub centre protruding around 8-9mm from the hub face

 

[Leeblade]

Thanks that's great! Cheers