Stretching Steel Wheels

[retailraymond]

Hey Fellas (and dames),

Would anyone know how to get some stocky steel wheels banded?

For those of you who don't know what I mean:

Stretching the width of a steel or alloy wheel by physical engineering.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Would love to see my Jetta dumped on some ****ty wheels!

[rayray086]

Not a lot of people band wheels here, most rebarrel them. Hit up a wheel specialist in your area, show them the steel wheels you have and see what options you have for getting them widened. I had Mk4 steelies rebarreled using ROH barrels which were the correct size for the Mk4 steel centres. I ended up going 8" all around; they could also do 10" as well but at the time I wasn't game enough.

[dylan8]

was thinking about this the other day...
got any places where to look up the barrels Ray?

[rayray086]

Can't seem to locate any websites... might need to ask a wheel guy??

[kapowww]

For what its worth Eastern Wheel Works and Ajax Wheels can get 8" and 10" barrels, cut out steelie centers and then weld them in at a custom offset. About ~$160 each.

Problem is for staggered sets the 8" and 10" are from different places and the diameter of one looks bigger. For 9" they have to get a 10" and cut 1" off at an extra $100 each.

[kapowww]

But you can do all that yourself right Dylan?

[KI11Z]

I see you're in brisbane I had some widened by Billeau Engineering in Labrador. hit them up..... there's also a mob called Wheel Revolution in Slacks Creek though their customer service and turn around times are slack.....

pic fro reference... I had some standard 15" steelies that they separated and welded the centers into new 8" barrels at staggered offsets

[rayray086]

Completely forgot about those Alex!!!!!

[retailraymond]

I see you're in brisbane I had some widened by Billeau Engineering in Labrador. hit them up..... there's also a mob called Wheel Revolution in Slacks Creek though their customer service and turn around times are slack.....

pic fro reference... I had some standard 15" steelies that they separated and welded the centers into new 8" barrels at staggered offsets

Holy ****. I am willing to pay good money for that set of wheels. NAME YOUR PRICE.

I'd rather spend my money on a set of remotec a or bbs wheels. Your wheels look amazing. Orange is my favourite colour!

[retailraymond]

I see you're in brisbane I had some widened by Billeau Engineering in Labrador. hit them up..... there's also a mob called Wheel Revolution in Slacks Creek though their customer service and turn around times are slack.....

pic fro reference... I had some standard 15" steelies that they separated and welded the centers into new 8" barrels at staggered offsets

They look amazing. How much did all that cost you including paint?

[Foxpuppet]

wow that is jaw droppingly awesome.... 17" on a T5 would look amazing!

[5teve]

Liking thoes wheels! They will suit my mk1, are you selling them by any chance?

[Surfpig]

I feel like this is a stupid question

But in wanting to do this on my mk2. They are stock 14" and i want them to be 15/8. The only thing stopping me is what offset to run. I have got no clue on what is gonna work

[Ben J]

I think you'd need to find some 15 inch 4x100 steelies and then have them cut the centeres out of those and put into 8 inch wide barrels. I've never looked into mk2 fitment, but have a look around on the interenet (vwvortex is a good place to start) for what offset other people are running, im sure there is heaps of info out there

You can also put in the dimensions/offset of your current wheels and measure how far out you want to new wheels to sit, then put all that into an offset calculator (such as this Online Wheel & Tyre Fitment calculator. Offset, Tyre stretch and Rolling Radius calculator) which will calculate what offset you would need.

[Surfpig]

Was just talking to neale wheels.
And he reckons he could do it, im thinking of going 15/8 et15.

Yeah I've been messing around with that site. I think that should work