Ted44
05-16-2014, 08:09 AM
Been reading here for awhile but finally found a reason to register :)
I've got a pair of bent rims on my grey 2007 A4 so am looking into replacing them. I'd like to manage it fairly cheap since I'm planning to upgrade to a new A4 within a year. I've found a guy selling the wheels off his S5 pretty cheap and I'm trying to figure out if they'll fit. I don't know a whole lot about this so if I say something stupid please excuse my ignorance. My biggest concern is that the offset is quite a bit different and I'm worried about them sticking out too far/causing problems with hitting the fender etc. I've tried to do some research on the wheel sizes/offset etc and plugged all that into a calculator and posted that below as well. Not 100% positive on those numbers but I think they're right. I wouldn't mind opinions on if they'd look ok, always had a terrible time visualizing different rims actually on the car :( Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.
My current wheels are the 17" stock ones, they look like these:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2NlgxNjAw/z/6EIAAOxy3HJTIGod/$_12.JPG?set_id=880000500F
The specific rims I'm looking at are these:
http://images.craigslist.org/00A0A_aRnUUJHPLYM_600x450.jpg
This is what the calculator showed with the numbers I could find:
https://www.diigo.com/item/p/raceabbzcbcaqdaoezbdqbsccr
I've got a pair of bent rims on my grey 2007 A4 so am looking into replacing them. I'd like to manage it fairly cheap since I'm planning to upgrade to a new A4 within a year. I've found a guy selling the wheels off his S5 pretty cheap and I'm trying to figure out if they'll fit. I don't know a whole lot about this so if I say something stupid please excuse my ignorance. My biggest concern is that the offset is quite a bit different and I'm worried about them sticking out too far/causing problems with hitting the fender etc. I've tried to do some research on the wheel sizes/offset etc and plugged all that into a calculator and posted that below as well. Not 100% positive on those numbers but I think they're right. I wouldn't mind opinions on if they'd look ok, always had a terrible time visualizing different rims actually on the car :( Thanks for any help/advice you can offer.
My current wheels are the 17" stock ones, they look like these:
http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTA2NlgxNjAw/z/6EIAAOxy3HJTIGod/$_12.JPG?set_id=880000500F
The specific rims I'm looking at are these:
http://images.craigslist.org/00A0A_aRnUUJHPLYM_600x450.jpg
This is what the calculator showed with the numbers I could find:
https://www.diigo.com/item/p/raceabbzcbcaqdaoezbdqbsccr