19" wheels on octavia scrubbing?

[TSIfan]

Yeah it was triggers story that us spooked me, already ordered my bits from milotec.... But the grill I wanted was only available from superskoda..... So now I don't know what to do!

[brad]

Perhaps the roads in his area are better than the roads in yours?

I know some of the roads in Canberra are really nice. (Admittedly, it *has* been awhile )

The OPs location says Western Sydney. Lets face it, 25% of the roads in the Sydney Greater Metro area are in disrepair - this is pretty normal for any large 1st World capital city - certainly the ones I've been to. Western Sydney is particularly under-funded when it comes to road maintenance as they have large areas with a smaller rate base & lower land values to create a revenue stream.

Either way, while 19" might look good, the comparatively poor ride & potential for tyre & wheel damage are pretty high. I was only talking to Matt at Camden GTI the other day & he was saying he'd reverted back to 17" on his family truckster because he was constantly damaging tyres on the larger rims he had.

Not my cup of cha but it isn't my car so I don't care.

[TSIfan]

Whilst I know your making a point..... The roads at blakehurst aren't much better than western Sydney....... You can make all the assumptions you want but western Sydney is far from poor these days.... And I choose to live out here because I want a house and some land at a reasonable price.....Not an apartment looking over railway tracks. Anyway, enough of slagging where we all live. The roads aren't good anywhere but if you know how to read the road an drive accordingly, you can avoid damage.

My take on it all is if I was seriously concerned about ride comfort I wouldn't be doing this, I'm happy to sacrifice some ride for the look I want, and I did shell out reasonable coin on the kw ultra low v3's to try and gain a compromise between ride and look. I've been driving for a long time with cars with big wheel and tyre combos ( I only moved to Sydney 6 years ago and before that I lived in orange nsw) and touch wood never damaged and wheel or tyre for that matter, not even a wheel scrape on a gutter. So I guess I have learnt on how to drive a super low car with big wheels. As I've said in earlier posts..... I've had falcons and fairlaines all my life with big wheels (an currently have a genuine 1972 GT falcon in the shed with 18" simmons and lowered) and recently just relinquished my ford mondeo titanium hatch ( left the job I had it in), I did 100,000klms in 1 year in it and I had 20" wheels and BC racing coliovers, and NO damage whatsoever ever. So I'm not an amateur at this.

I'm sorry that I came on here and asked the question, I know it is public and everyone is entitled to there opinion, but other than one poster all that has happened is I have been slagged for trying to do sonething different, I really have a love for VAG product, infact the reason I'm in Sydney was for a job with Volkswagen Australia.

What I don't understand, is RS comes out std with 18" wheels so how is going to a 19" wheel going to make all the difference? In my experience it means squat.

Anyway, I guess that's what I get for trying to connect on a forum with other owners that I thought shared my passion. I'll post pics up when I'm done just to show, but I'll just have to learn on my own.

[brad]

Mate, I'm not putting down Western Sydney & I made a point of stating that 25% of the Greater Metro Area has an issue (Greter metro extends from CBD out to lower Blue Mts). 3 of the 5 richest people in Sydney live around Bringelly. I know the area pretty well - I'm based at Campbelltown & my work area extends from Bowral to Penrith.

Your own words confirm what I said. The rateable value of the land is cheaper (hence you can afford a house rather than an apartment); the population is more dispersed, therefore the cashflow from rates is less and the land area is greater therefore the roads are longer & more money is needed to maintain them (except the money isn't there). It's just the economics of it. I help run a roads maintenance contract with the RMS & have extensive local government knowledge. No need to get defensive - it's a fact that where I live, we pay more $ per square metre of land & there are more of us jammed into a smaller area therefore the council has more money to spend on a much smaller area.

Sorry, can't help you with the scraperage when combined with lowering - I suspect the extra 0.5" will be a problem though.

[Mysticality]

I'm based in Bowral and the furthest I've been is Blackheath, Shell Cove, Wingello and Hornsby.
I've destroyed one tyre, but that was my fault (doing a u-ey and scraped the gutter)
I've hit a few pot holes pretty hard - mostly at night, local and before I got the LED light bar - only a tiny bit of rim scraping from that so I'm pretty happy.

I wouldn't go larger, I'm actually looking at finding some nice aftermarkets in 17" (of course, there is absolutely nothing) but hell - its not my car! Do what you want!
I'd love to see 20's on it, though. It would be awesome!!

I scrape pretty hard on some clients driveways. Although, the 90/118 would probably scrape on a couple as well. Times like that make me think I should have got the Scout.

[JLC089]

Coming from someone with 19s, go for it... I went 19s as I think it fills the guards better... The ride quality (I think) is actually better than what I had with 18s and 19s while I had stock suspension... Tyres on mine are currently 225/35/19 Kumhos on 19x8s and the only time its ever scrubbed was when it got punted through Bells Line at slightly more than the speed limit... Interested to see how your car will end up looking though...

[Weekend-Warrior]

To answer the original question, the standard tyres on the RS are 225/40, so 225/35 will be fine and there is a minimal change to the rolling diameter.

Offset and width will be what impacts whether they rub. I have 8.5s with an offset of 45 and they are fine. Although the car isn't scrapping the ground . There is very minimal stretch.

Looking forward to seeing pics.

[cbay]

TSIFan, I just got linked on Facebook by a friend to a photo of a black 118TSI-looking (because it could be a TDI) wagon with silver rotiform BLQ's from Build To Order's Facebook page... Would this be your ride? Was thinking of posting a link to it but since you haven't yet I'll refrain.

[cbay]

Whilst I know your making a point..... The roads at blakehurst aren't much better than western Sydney....... You can make all the assumptions you want but western Sydney is far from poor these days.... And I choose to live out here because I want a house and some land at a reasonable price.....Not an apartment looking over railway tracks. Anyway, enough of slagging where we all live. The roads aren't good anywhere but if you know how to read the road an drive accordingly, you can avoid damage.

My take on it all is if I was seriously concerned about ride comfort I wouldn't be doing this, I'm happy to sacrifice some ride for the look I want, and I did shell out reasonable coin on the kw ultra low v3's to try and gain a compromise between ride and look. I've been driving for a long time with cars with big wheel and tyre combos ( I only moved to Sydney 6 years ago and before that I lived in orange nsw) and touch wood never damaged and wheel or tyre for that matter, not even a wheel scrape on a gutter. So I guess I have learnt on how to drive a super low car with big wheels. As I've said in earlier posts..... I've had falcons and fairlaines all my life with big wheels (an currently have a genuine 1972 GT falcon in the shed with 18" simmons and lowered) and recently just relinquished my ford mondeo titanium hatch ( left the job I had it in), I did 100,000klms in 1 year in it and I had 20" wheels and BC racing coliovers, and NO damage whatsoever ever. So I'm not an amateur at this.

I'm sorry that I came on here and asked the question, I know it is public and everyone is entitled to there opinion, but other than one poster all that has happened is I have been slagged for trying to do sonething different, I really have a love for VAG product, infact the reason I'm in Sydney was for a job with Volkswagen Australia.

What I don't understand, is RS comes out std with 18" wheels so how is going to a 19" wheel going to make all the difference? In my experience it means squat.

Anyway, I guess that's what I get for trying to connect on a forum with other owners that I thought shared my passion. I'll post pics up when I'm done just to show, but I'll just have to learn on my own.

You'll find that a lot of Skoda owners (on this forum anyway, from what I've read) are fairly conservative on the wheel and stance front, looks like you're leading the way mate

To answer your question about scrubbing, the octavia is based on the mkv/mkvi golf so you may find better answers from people who are in the stance scene who are running big wheels on their golfs. Try make a visit to Zen Garage in Leichhardt, I understand there maybe people in the know there. My brother is into modifying his golf gti and he's trying to get himself better acquainted with some of the others in the local scene - zen sounds like the 'spot' to be.

Can't wait to see your photos. If your car is the one I saw on facebook last night... not my style either (im more after an oem look) but AWESOME nonetheless because of the work you're putting in to make it YOURS. I'm from North-west-ish sydney, but drive around the Blacktown area a lot, so hope to see your car around. You gotta bring the car to the next Allstars Eurofest or something to rep the sydney skoda mob.

[TSIfan]

You'll find that a lot of Skoda owners (on this forum anyway, from what I've read) are fairly conservative on the wheel and stance front, looks like you're leading the way mate

To answer your question about scrubbing, the octavia is based on the mkv/mkvi golf so you may find better answers from people who are in the stance scene who are running big wheels on their golfs. Try make a visit to Zen Garage in Leichhardt, I understand there maybe people in the know there. My brother is into modifying his golf gti and he's trying to get himself better acquainted with some of the others in the local scene - zen sounds like the 'spot' to be.

Can't wait to see your photos. If your car is the one I saw on facebook last night... not my style either (im more after an oem look) but AWESOME nonetheless because of the work you're putting in to make it YOURS. I'm from North-west-ish sydney, but drive around the Blacktown area a lot, so hope to see your car around. You gotta bring the car to the next Allstars Eurofest or something to rep the sydney skoda mob.

Yeah if it was a black one with rotiforms you saw on Facebook, it was mine, still need to fine tune the suspension and lower the front a little bit more, but it's coming together, I put 215/35r19 tyres on it and its very low, I've just completed a drive to port Macquarie fully loaded and no rubbing. I think I may put a 225 tyre on it next time.

I would reccomend the KW V3 "ultra low" kit to anyone wishing to go super low with there skoda. It rides very well, and the difference from stock to modded is minimal.

I can't upload pics while I'm on mobile, but the car is on the built to order Facebook page. It's going in next week to be lowered a bit more at the front to match the rear a little better, it's nearly fully adjusted up and it sits on the tyres at the rear and about two fingers gap at the front. I'll be lowering it to sit in the tyres all round next week.

All in all I'm very happy with it, when I can work out how to upload pics I'll put them up.

[TSIfan]

TSIFan, I just got linked on Facebook by a friend to a photo of a black 118TSI-looking (because it could be a TDI) wagon with silver rotiform BLQ's from Build To Order's Facebook page... Would this be your ride? Was thinking of posting a link to it but since you haven't yet I'll refrain.

Yeah that's mine! Happy to post a link up!

[Weekend-Warrior]

This is it.



Looks good , but when I read your first post I was picturing more this sort of height.

You'll find that a lot of Skoda owners (on this forum anyway, from what I've read) are fairly conservative on the wheel and stance front, looks like you're leading the way mate

215/35 - 225/35 on 19x8.5 with a +45 offset is conservative.

[TSIfan]

Lol. It does go a lot lower but it's my daily and I do roughly 12-1500klms a week.... So I have to compromise. It's in next week to wind the fronts down to the tyre..... So it will be tucking tyre all round.

Really happy with it!

[TSIfan]

The pic of the blue car.... It's that low at the rear and will be like that at the front Wednesday!

I have to be careful but I've already been stuck on a driveway by the plastic fuel tank cover

[Weekend-Warrior]

Sounds good. Looking forward to seeing the pics.

And it's actually the same car but with different wheels. The wheels in the bottom pic are 19 x 10 +37 on the rear.