Early type 3 wheel options · Aussieveedubbers

doublecabg · 1 Dec 2015, 12:28 pm

Wondering what people do fitting aftermarket wheels with the +46 offset.
Have been looking at cosmics or raiders/randars but a bit ignorant when it comes to offsets.
Standar height at the moment but looking to go lower- 2 splines at rear.
I`ve seen some posts on the samba with 25 offset with 195/65/15's.
Wheels im looking at are 20.

shaven · 1 Dec 2015, 5:16 pm

PM'd

vw54 · 1 Dec 2015, 5:53 pm

NOT many options there 4 wide 5 stud

doublecabg · 1 Dec 2015, 8:13 pm

vw54 wrote:NOT many options there 4 wide 5 stud

indeed, saving my money and spending on other things looks likely.

empi · 2 Dec 2015, 10:37 am

What year type 3?

cruiser · 2 Dec 2015, 1:00 pm

I have a swing axle four stud car but have just recently fitted the stock style chrome wheels, 5.5" rear 25mm offset and 4.5" front 43mm offset.

My rear 25mm offset wheels were dead flush with the rear guard and looked just too far out. The car was not lowered at the time but the tyre would just touch inside the fender when you bounced on the rear end. Assuming the wide 5 cars have the same/similar axles then this is where a 25mm offset would sit on a type 3??

I have now done a short axle swap putting beetle axles in place which are 30mm shorter so wheels now sit inside the guard.

The front wheels 4.5" 43mm offset were just fine.

For wide 5 wheels I always liked the wide five sprint star wheels. Offsets??

volksmanharry · 2 Dec 2015, 3:36 pm

I have wide 5 sprintstars on my 67 notch with stock swing axle gearbox and original front drums, lowered one spline at the back and 2 splines at the front. I don't have any rubbing issues even with fairly wide rubber, 195/65 rear and 195/55 front. the guards have been rolled however by a previous owner.

shaven · 3 Dec 2015, 1:54 am

all the ones i sent you 😘

doublecabg · 3 Dec 2015, 8:21 am

empi wrote:What year type 3?

hey its a 65

doublecabg · 3 Dec 2015, 8:23 am

volksmanharry wrote:I have wide 5 sprintstars on my 67 notch with stock swing axle gearbox and original front drums, lowered one spline at the back and 2 splines at the front. I don't have any rubbing issues even with fairly wide rubber, 195/65 rear and 195/55 front. the guards have been rolled however by a previous owner.

nice one. i've seen a few cars running these (very nice) but didnt realise till recently about the offset.
thanks for the info on tyres. good stuff

empi · 3 Dec 2015, 2:45 pm

OG sprint stars 5.5 wont fit...

For best result you will need to do the axle swap