opinions on these wheels

[NissanGuy]

9.75" width? I've never heard of such a thing... Massive.

XXRs are heavy for their size, and these ones are colossal. Does the car make grooves in the road as it drives along?

[mothespaceman]

Definitely not the greatest look out there. Maybe he's also including some absolutely heinous install costs too? If not, that's a pretty serious overstatement.

[ericmpena]

I wouldn't do it. The 18x9.75 XXR's have like a +20 offset, which is why you can see the wheels poke out so much.

If you really like those wheels then get them new. You hardly ever see used XXR's for sale because they're so cheap to buy new anyways. I got my set of 530's for about $125 piece. If I were you I'd definitely stick with 18x8.75 +35. Don't go wider than that otherwise you'll have a ton of poke.

Here's a website a lot of people trust. They're usually out of stock with Chromium Black, but if you go ahead and purchase the wheels through their site then they will ship them out to you within 3-6 weeks once they become available.
www.nlmotoring.com
Tire Crazy is also another good site.

Or if you want you can go to Discount Tire and have them price match NLMotoring or Tire Crazy. That's what I did.

[tjohnson104]

Originally Posted by ericmpena

I wouldn't do it. The 18x9.75 XXR's have like a +20 offset, which is why you can see the wheels poke out so much.

If you really like those wheels then get them new. You hardly ever see used XXR's for sale because they're so cheap to buy new anyways. I got my set of 530's for about $125 piece. If I were you I'd definitely stick with 18x8.75 +35. Don't go wider than that otherwise you'll have a ton of poke.

Here's a website a lot of people trust. They're usually out of stock with Chromium Black, but if you go ahead and purchase the wheels through their site then they will ship them out to you within 3-6 weeks once they become available.
www.nlmotoring.com
Tire Crazy is also another good site.


Or if you want you can go to Discount Tire and have them price match NLMotoring or Tire Crazy. That's what I did.

awesome thank you. I dont have my heart set on these, I was just curious because I could get them fairly cheap it seemed like. I dont know a damn thing when it comes to offset numbers and what everything means. I dont have a style. If i could chose, Id go for sti wheels but way to expensive. Even the asga spirit are some what to expensive for me at this time considering I would have to buy tires with that.

[ericmpena]

Originally Posted by tjohnson104

awesome thank you. I dont have my heart set on these, I was just curious because I could get them fairly cheap it seemed like. I dont know a damn thing when it comes to offset numbers and what everything means. I dont have a style. If i could chose, Id go for sti wheels but way to expensive. Even the asga spirit are some what to expensive for me at this time considering I would have to buy tires with that.

Basically a low offset number means the wheel will poke out more, and a higher offset number means the wheel will tuck in more. You gotta find the right wheel width + a good offset so that it'll look flush with the fender. If you get a wheel say with +45 offset then the wheel will look tucked into the fender a little. At that point you'd want to look at purchasing Wheel Spacers. Basically wheel spacers can be bolted onto your car and will space the wheel out. So, say your wheels are tucked in like 15mm....you can buy a 15mm wheel spacer, bolt them on, and then your wheels will look more flush instead of tucked in.

With stock wheels a lot of people that put spacers on go with 15mm front, 20mm rear wheel spacers. With factory wheels those spacer sizes will give you a decent flush look...but then of course you're going to want to get rid of your wheel gap after that.

Best bet is to look at a ton of pictures and see which wheel widths give you a nice flush look without spacers. Spacers aren't bad, but they're not recommended. It's better to find a wheel with a good offset than get a wheel that needs spacers to be flush.

Hope that helps.