I just bought some ADR 18x8.5 rims with pirelli pzero rosso 275/35ZR18's on them for my 2001 S4. Plus I have koni struts and eibach lowering springs. I know there is no way to make them fit as is, I don't think I want the rims sticking out an inch and a half from my fenders. What are my best options? Wheel spacers, rolling the fenders, buying new 245 tires, something else?

 

You can get the fenders rolled, there was a post on here a while ago with a nogaro S4 with 285's on18x10's under rolled stock fenders.

 

I hope you don't corner hard, or hit any bumps! The fenders will get mangled.

You might find that your hosed. Even with fender rolling, they are not going to fit. Wheel spacers will put the wheel OUT more. So where ever they are now, is the farthest in they will be.

Depending on your offset, they might even hit the suspension.

yea, sell em, & get 245.

 

http://www.autoblog.com/2007/02/23/r...-2000-audi-s4/
There's the link to the nogaro autocross car with 285's, lowered and cornering . You just need to make sure that when it's done it's right.

 

if i see you driving around milwaukee with those on... i will laugh... just a heads up, nothing against you...

 

lol I'll kill you... just kidding. Whatever hapened to you and Andy? Did he sell his S4? Yea I've been trying to find a place in Milwaukee to roll my fenders but have no idea where to look. My friend put hubcentric spacers on his g/f's S4 with 18x8.5's and it rides perfect, but it isn't lowered and has 245's. Here are my options as I see it:

1. Get fender's rolled
2. Get hubcentric spacers
3. Get spring blockers so the spring doesn't fully compress if the control arm does hit over bumps
4. Get new tires (35 offset good or should I go with 40?)

I'm almost positive I am going to get new tires, just trying to figure out the best way to go from there so they stick out as little as possible and aren't going to rub anywhere.

 

Oh, here are a couple pics:

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another one:


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Im sorry.. But i dont think that you can fit 275 under rolled fenders... thats just too much to go. I dont know that for fact, but doesnt seem right to me to be able to do that much...

i would get smaller tires... im thinking any bump youre going to hit the wall.

As for that other car.. That has a whole slew of other stuff that could possibly be helping with clearance
Both upper links and lower rear link of front suspension have been replaced. fully adjustable camber/caster
Front toe link is fully adjustable for toe and bumpsteer
Upper and lower contol arms and custom toe link all replaced with Spherical bearing/bushings
adjustable for toe and camber

As well as he flared the rear fender

 

If you are serious about getting it to fit and work well, you could go the route that Joel Fehrman did with his Subaru (nicknamed "Stompy")- he had the fenders modified (read - "cut") to clear his wheels and tires. Anything is possible given enough commitment and resources.

Keep in mind that without enough wheel to "open up" the tread of the tire, you are not really going to see any gain in the size of the contact patch. In fact, it is possible that you will actual lose contact patch area and/or find that because of the way the sidewalls are pinched on the wheel that the tread deforms unexpectedly under cornering loads and you wind up with less lateral grip than with a smaller tire on the same rim.