How bad is it to run staggered wheels?
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fourthmeal
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Money spent lookingbadass vs. money spent towards making your car badass...That's my issue. BTW, if you play your cards right, you could make a staggered setup handle ideally.
In order to do this, you need to use the same width tires all around, but feel free to run a slightly wider tire. By stretching the rears slightly to match the wider tire, the contact patch will get a tiny bit weaker, which should enable the car to rotate better. A bit more air pressure (2-3psi) on the rears will help here too. At any rate, the result would be the staggered setup you were talking about, but a very capable, tuned-in (and maybe a bit twitchy) setup.
In order to do this, you need to use the same width tires all around, but feel free to run a slightly wider tire. By stretching the rears slightly to match the wider tire, the contact patch will get a tiny bit weaker, which should enable the car to rotate better. A bit more air pressure (2-3psi) on the rears will help here too. At any rate, the result would be the staggered setup you were talking about, but a very capable, tuned-in (and maybe a bit twitchy) setup.
What's your point? The fact of the matter is having a staggered setup on a FWD isn't a good idea. I never said put wider on front. That would look retarded. I was explaining the effects of handling on your FWD car if you decided to put larger wheels in the rear.
Bottom line is that it's not wise to do it.
ghetto waggon
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Other than the fact it is not practical, I see most of your arguments out the window. The recurring 'retarded' explanation carries no weight.
There's plenty of cars with differing body lines where it looks and fits normally.
Sure there is an increased cost due to tire wear, and hindrence on racing performance but I still see no reason why it can't be done for looks!
Nothing more than personal opinion!
There's plenty of cars with differing body lines where it looks and fits normally.
Sure there is an increased cost due to tire wear, and hindrence on racing performance but I still see no reason why it can't be done for looks!
Nothing more than personal opinion!
knowledge007
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Um...those don't look staggered to me.
Never said it can't be some simply for looks. But, to me, the "look" isn't worth screwing up the handling of my car. The car loves to understeer enough as it is, I don't know why anyone would want to make it worse.
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Young Roids
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What if you were to go with a wheel like AXIS? They make wheels for FWD cars to run Staggered. It gives the illusion of staggered wheels on a FWD car but really is the same all the way around. Rotation wise I would just leave the back ones on and burn through the front ones. You'll go through 2 front sets before you have to change the back ones. http://www.axiswheels.com I was actually looking at the Widetrack 18x8s....
What if you were to go with a wheel like AXIS? They make wheels for FWD cars to run Staggered. It gives the illusion of staggered wheels on a FWD car but really is the same all the way around. Rotation wise I would just leave the back ones on and burn through the front ones. You'll go through 2 front sets before you have to change the back ones. http://www.axiswheels.com I was actually looking at the Widetrack 18x8s....
fourthmeal
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All good there, but don't forget you'll likely get very tired of the "chop-chop-chop-chop" that goes on in the back end as those tires wear in the rear. The non-drive tires of a FWD car often feather and cup, and start turning into 100-sided polygons instead of round. Without rotation, you'll end up exacerbating this phenomenon.
One solution (despite some serious effort involved), is to dismount the tires off the rims, and remount the tires on the opposite rims. Doing this will "rotate" the tires, but keep the stagger, at the expense of inconvienence. One major advantage, though, is that you can inspect the innards of the tires, and check for small leaks and other problems here at the same time.
I'm pretty sure that was BMW's "way" of building in more understeer in the M3 (most manufacturers do that to reduce threat of understeer which normally results in a more sever accident if you lose control). They're all like that. But everything I've read says to put the same size fronts as the rear and you will remove that tendency.
do tha staggered wheels set-up man...
dont listen to what they are saying.. yeah obviously its goin to affect your handling.. your goin ot have more contact area in tha rear...
there is a guy on another mazda3 baord that has a staggered set up w/ 19" rims.. tis loooks sick!
im planning on doing it, if i can get a nice set of wide rims.. But u have to get soemthign w/ a high offset to make it work.
im looking @ a 17x8 & 17x10 set up now... hrmm that would look good.. heheaheh
like tha cars on Dubaudi.com hehhaeeh
its all about style bro...
dont listen to what they are saying.. yeah obviously its goin to affect your handling.. your goin ot have more contact area in tha rear...
there is a guy on another mazda3 baord that has a staggered set up w/ 19" rims.. tis loooks sick!
im planning on doing it, if i can get a nice set of wide rims.. But u have to get soemthign w/ a high offset to make it work.
im looking @ a 17x8 & 17x10 set up now... hrmm that would look good.. heheaheh
like tha cars on Dubaudi.com hehhaeeh
its all about style bro...
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