widening steel wheels - newcastle region

[Surfpig]

pretty much as the title says, i wanna widen my golf stocks to about 8"

does anyone know somewhere in newcastle, or possibly sydney that is good?

[HaydEn]

There's neale wheels in sydney. Pretty cheap and do it. But they don't weld in a new strip they get wider barrels.


That's about it really.

[ozgti]

Hmmm.. Now to find some steelies!

[Surfpig]

i was speaking with a guy from neale wheels today and he didnt know what i meant by et45 and et18 etc.
now im hell confused, because i thought wheel people would actually know what offset is?

he want to know what the back space was going to be?

has anyone dealt with these guys?

[mk3pete]

im selling these guys.

http://www.vwwatercooled.com/forums/f24/15x8-et21-et15-5x100-steelies-76972-3.html

[Surfpig]

...4 stud

[Guest001]

5 in the pics in the thread

[Ben J]

Pretty sure he means he is after 4 stud.

Shouldn't be hard to convert the offset you want to backspace, google it. If backspace is what I'm thinking (im not completely sure, guessing its the space from the mounting face to the back?) it would just be half of the width of the wheel + the offset. Make sure to check that though, thats going off a guess haha so is probably completely wrong

[Guest001]

Look here for a good tool to work it out Shows offset etc and is fully adjustable to what you want to do

Custom rims, wheel tire packages for your ride - RIMSnTIRES.com

[Surfpig]

yeah im just going to use my 4 stud wheels,

i just read in a forum on vwvortex that et/offset is backspacing.

also i just saw a few photos where they guy is using the same rims as mine. now im thinking i might just run them as is!
looks sick imo

[Peter Jones]

Go large or go home.

15 x 8 et0

Centres are G60 Corrado steelies.

Eastern Wheel works made them up for me. Wheel Repairs Melbourne

[Surfpig]

thanks mate!

thats exactly what i needed

[Perun]

i was speaking with a guy from neale wheels today and he didnt know what i meant by et45 and et18 etc.
now im hell confused, because i thought wheel people would actually know what offset is?

he want to know what the back space was going to be?

has anyone dealt with these guys?

That's odd... I've been dealing with Neale Wheels for 10 years and they generally know their stuff. Did you actually say the "ET" bit? That might have thrown him off a bit because no one says that.

[rayray086]

i was speaking with a guy from neale wheels today and he didnt know what i meant by et45 and et18 etc.
now im hell confused, because i thought wheel people would actually know what offset is?

he want to know what the back space was going to be?

has anyone dealt with these guys?

Backspace is just half the entire width (edge-to-edge, not bead-to-bead) of the wheel + offset. So let's just say your wheel is 220mm wide, and you want an offset of ET18. That means you want a backspacing of 110mm + 18mm = 128mm.

Wheel builders generally prefer using the term backspacing because it's easier to work with.

[Surfpig]

ah rightio, cool. thanks for the info guys. makes more sense now