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.

 

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?

 

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.