wheel size

[TantricCurse]

Just curious as of this moment right now but whould 17" rims fit good on the m2 with decent profile not to low?

 

[eyeballs]

I would not recommend 17's. Personally, I like 15's the best but 16's still look good. There is a fittment thread of sorts around here somewhere you'll want to check out to help decide on offset.

 

[scoobs]

I find that 17" looks odd on the 2. I nice set of wide 15" looks amazing on the 2. The larger I would go would be 16".

 

[inspekt]

Someone about a year or so back posted photos of his white 2 with the 17" Mazdaspeed Miata wheels on it. That looked awesome. 17"s mostly look too big to me for this car, but there are some 17s that look quite good. A 17 is a big wheel on a 2! On the plus side, a lot of 17" tires are really affordable due to the onslaught of cars that ship with 17" OEM wheels.

 

[BigBlueDart]

Check out this guy's 17" rims. I think they turned out pretty good:

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123838975-My-new-rims

 

[scoobs]

Check out this guy's 17" rims. I think they turned out pretty good:

http://www.mazdas247.com/forum/showthread.php?123838975-My-new-rims

Yeah but look at how his brake rotors look with those wheels, they look tiny. If there were a big brake kit to fill the void it would be perfect but with the tiny oem rotors and calipers it doesn't look right to me.

With 15/16" wheels it almost looks perfect, a nice wide 15" looks amazing on the 2

 

[cosh68]

Juliec71's Mazda 2 Tamura on 16" standard alloys lowered with FK springs.... ( pic on day of install, settled since then )



Mine on 17" Inovit Rapid, lowered with FK springs..... ( pic on day of install, settled since then )



Dan's on 17" Wolfrace Ultralites, Apex lowering springs....



Shaun.....

 

[BigBlueDart]

Yeah but look at how his brake rotors look with those wheels, they look tiny. If there were a big brake kit to fill the void it would be perfect but with the tiny oem rotors and calipers it doesn't look right to me.

With 15/16" wheels it almost looks perfect, a nice wide 15" looks amazing on the 2

A fair point, and I am running on 7.5" wide 15's, myself. For what it's worth, Wilwood has a kit available for the Fiesta (including rear disc conversion), and there was someone looking into checking to see if they could convert it for the 2, but I don't know if that went anywhere. It would probably just take a different hat.

 

[Bimaleksono]

Does anyone here know how to deal with this bulge? I wanna make my 2 lower bot have to deal with this first. It.s on the rear fender btw

 

[inspekt]

I'll bet CRG could answer that for you. He was lower than anybody, I think. (cabpatch)