Just went out and measured my 14" steel wheels, the actual wheel width - 164mm, backspacing - 121mm; offset - 39mm ((121-(164/2)) I also measured my 14" x 6.5"w ET23 BBS wheels (stamped ET-23) and came up with an actual width of 192mm, backspacing of 119mm for an offset of 23mm (119-(192/2)) So my steel wheels have an offset of 39mm, not 38mm as I originally stated. Thanks, Tim
BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote: Tim, Are you sure your stock steel rims are ET38? All my steel Vanagon rims are ET30.
BenT
On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:21:16 -0800, TJ Hannink wrote: > On Sat, 5 Mar 2005 15:12:25 -0800, mark drillock wrote: > > > VW did not make the 14x6 alloys with a different ET than the 14x5.5 > > steels to keep the rims from rubbing. They did it to keep the wider > > tires from rubbing. > > I happened to be rotating the tires and checking the front-end alignment on Goldibox this morning and decided to do some checking. I bolted on a stock steel 14" wheel (less tire) 5.5" wide with 38mm of offset to the front right hub and measured the clearance between the inner edge of the wheel and the spindle and found 20/64" or 8mm of clearance.
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