Originally Posted by jinrawke

I'd like to thank you for all your work gathering wheel information and have a quick question just to verify my math / logic is correct. So lets say I'm looking at 18x8 wheels at +32 offset. I see for the rear wheel, you have a silver star for the rear so I assume that +32 will come very close to flush which is a good thing. As far as the front I see you have a smiley face at +35.

So at stock height, that would mean the fronts would be sticking out by 3 mm?

You also mention that we would need to adjust the offsets when lowering the car.
Front - lowered 36mm (1.417 inch)
Rear - lowered 32mm (1.259 inch)

so conservatively I would need to be over +37 for the front and +38 for the rear?

Thanks for any help!

Originally Posted by DarrenDriven (Post 388637)

@jinrawke - An 18x8.0 +32 will be 6mm sunken at stock height since a +38 is flush. If the car is lowered 1" then the camber will cause the top of the wheel to sink another 2mm, so you would end up 8mm sunk at the top of the wheel. Not too bad... that is about 5/16" sunken and would look fine.

At the rear at stock height an 18x8 +32 will be flush. If you plan to lower your car 1" then you will sink the tops of the wheels 5mm... which would still look totally fine.

A smiley face is a link to a topic where someone on the site has actually installed that wheel spec... and a star represents perfect flush AT STOCK HEIGHT.

Originally Posted by JoeBoxer (Post 389503)

+32 would be 6mm poke if +38 is flush, not 6mm sunken.

Originally Posted by JoeBoxer (Post 389685)

You might be getting too technical trying to add the camber in too as most people on spring drops won't be able to adjust it anyways. My best tool is the offset calculator on 1010tires.com I think it gives the best idea we can get without actually test fitting.