Upgrading wheels without changing suspension

[Alicia]

Just looking for opinions here.

I have an A3 8V Sport which has 17” wheels as standard, 225/45/17 tyres. I’m looking to change to 18” wheels soon, 225/40/18 tyres, but don’t really want to be lowering the suspension quite yet. I’m wondering if anyone else has done this and if it still looks okay as I don’t want it to be looking too high.

I might eventually lower it, but not anytime soon. So until then, I’d still like it to look somewhat decent and not like it’s on stilts.

 

[dannyboy1985]

Shouldn’t look or be any higher as the diameter of wheel and tyre isn’t changing.

 

[Lehn]

As you can see there's not much of a difference:

https://www.willtheyfit.com/index.p...2=40&wheel_size=18&wheel_width=7-5&offset2=51

 

[Khufu]

if you go to a lower profile tyre even if the rolling radius is the same there is an optical effect where it looks higher even though its not changed.