18's or 19's for B5 s4 cant decide
 

help me decide i am trying to buy buy PETROL VENGEANCE RIMS
8 inch wide front 9.5 wide rear just dont know if i should do 18's
or 19's also lowering 2.5F 2.0R

the stance on the 19's are awasome all my buddies that went from 18's to 19's love them

It depends on the look you want.

18's would give an overall lower look over 19's. Although tucking 19's is also awesome.

I suggest checking out pictures of cars with both sizes and see which ones you like better. I think this is all personal opinion.

18's fill in the gap really nicely but 19's on a lowered oh bby!

Lovin my 19s:)

Me too:
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Thinking about painting the inserts black, as the paint on them right now is fading (this is photoshopped):
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metal id definately paint the inserts, that looks incredible

I have 18"s, but think 19"s would be better

17's! Oh wait.

Shit.

Umm, go big or go home. Everyone does 18's, it'd be nice to see a car doing 19's right. Jeremy's car surprised me when I saw it in person, he pulls them off well.

Every does 18's and 19's. That's why we need people to do 17's with 40 tires. :D

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Lol.

Nick,

Are those 18's or 19's? Lowered?

I'm really going for this as an end result, I know its lowered but not sure if there 18's or 19's
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I'll tag along here since I've posted a question in wheels and tires and no one responded. I have a 1998 quattro a4, COMPLETELY STOCK!!!I want to go 17 or 18s, but DONT want to lower it cuz I live at 10,600 feet in colorado ski country (it snows here in JULY AND September sometimes!!!), so don't want to lower it...would 17s or 18s look COOLER!!! :) I'm not a TIRE guy, just a humble mechanic....

makes your car look funny cause with the bigger wheels itll probably bting your car up a bit. mines stock as well i have some 17s i tried them on and decided i keep stock till i lower since my car went up about an inch haha

Thanks brotha...that's what I thought when I measured...it goes up .5 inches, depending on tire all the way around, so yea, 18s would look funny....so, I'll just get some 16s (stock on mine) that look good...thanks.

^^no problem^^
19's
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so, besides sandblasting these OEM rims I have to paint them BLACK, you know any really good ACID based cleaner....hahahahahaha....

b5 audi - On the red one how much do you have it lowered? and are those replica rs4 rims?

airplane stripper/ lol or brake fluid is pretty good at ruining finishes you can paint them any color will just take a hell of sanding

not my car just giving ideas but that laser red s5 is pretty low so i cant say since i dont know any info on it sorry

i'll let go of my b5 avus 17's(5 painted black) that need new tires for 400 + shipping if anyone wants them..... pm me

pix of the wheels
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They're 17's, lowered but with all kinds of wheel gap. I was just posting that picture because Krip mentioned 40 tires, and that's what was on those wheels at the time.

I was below 23"gtf in the rear and there was still a half inch or more of wheel gap. Tiny tires are tiny.

The wheels on the silver B5 are 18's.

Just another question for my stock 98 quattro 2.8, I've decided to keep the dirty OEM rims with studded 205 55 16s for the winter...I want to get new black rims for it for summer, how wide can I go so as not to disturb the ride and the handling? What size should I go so it looks great, and not ghetto...and to have WIDER tires? ;) 225, 235, 245 etc...

I have 18" Hartmanns lowered on Eibach springs and Bilstein springs and the wheel smashes into the wheel well. Anyone else have this problem on cornering?

I also thought 19"s didn't fit our cars without rolling the fenders?

Markymarc, the proper width will likely be 225. A tire calculator can show you the right tire sizes that'll keep your gauge calibration close to the same but in general when you upsize on a B5, to keep the rolling diameter the same you'd use a 225-45-17, 225-40-18, or a 225-35-19. All of those have a rolling diameter less than 1% off from an OEM tire size and all will fit.

jmgrande, rolled fenders aren't a necessity - 19s will fit without doing so - but it's a good idea to do it. My wheels came with tires (235-35-19 Falken FK452) so I'm running 10mm wider than ideal. I am also lowered 2.5" up front and 1.25" in the back. I have zero interference issues out back but I rub like crazy up front (on the fender lip, not the wheelwell liner) when I hit a dip on the highway or have to turn into a ramped driveway. I think that if the tires were 225s instead, with my fenders rolled I'd just barely tuck when the suspension compressed.

For the record my wheels are 19x8 TSW Volcano, +42 offset with 5mm spacers, for an effective offset of +37. With the 235s, the inner sidewalls wouldn't clear the spindles front or rear without the spacers. The wheels don't poke, they're flush with the fenders.

help from devil
 

hey ImTheDevil tell me how i should pull this off

i want to run 19x8 petrol vengeance in the front
and 19x9.5 in the rear because it has a 3inch lip

i plan on dropping the car 2.5 front and 2.0 rear

i was guna do 1.5 in rear but dont know if it will
look good on imports i think thats more for muscle

any help would be appreciated what spacer, tires , and etc.
do i need what needs to be done and where

and if im going to have a fast car i plan on installing tial 770r kit
will this hold the car back at all if so im probably just going to do
18 inch by 8 all the way around or 19 by 8

You've probably mentioned it somewhere but what offsets/ET's?

dont know
 

those are the only specs i dont know what would you think they would have to be

Around a 38 offset give or take a mm or two for a wheel up to 8.5". For 9.5" I'm not sure. You have to select tires carefully with a quattro if you stagger the wheel sizes. You need to keep rolling diameters the same for all four corners so you don't mess up quattro.

9.5 with ET 38 will sit you flush to the rear fenders with minor poke. Like ImTheDevil said, you will need to carefully select the tires as you'll need to stretch them to prevent major rubbing.

I'd probably go with 215/35 up front and 235/30 or 245/30 rear.

My 19x8 wheels are et35. Tires are in my sig (235/35). In the front I HAD to get the fenders rolled, and even still if I corner hard I can get the tire to hit the fender... but it's no longer taking chunks out of the tires. My rear is the FWD rear end, so I dunno how that compares to the quattro rear end in terms of width... Though the wheels fit the back just about perfectly.

Im into big rims and im planning to go as high as i can. Do you know about cheap rims.? places prices, i dont mean ugly but affordable.

Just find some way to cram 20s up in there on some stretched tires and WIN :D

Side note: are 20s possible without making a donk? Although I would drive a donked b5 all day :rolleyes:

I've only seen two B5s on 20s. One was poked and had a wheel gap about half the diameter of an ass hair. The other was a wide-arch conversion and was on bags and tucking. Satin black too - yummy:)

he pulls off 20s pretty well. pretty sure it's static too

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the black one is smexy :D and i like the fact that he didnt tint the windows or smoke any lights. btw no side markers o.O

He's on H&R Ultra Lows. Static FTW!

Ultra Low FTW!

Flat black paint = greatness