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| posted on December 1st, 2015 at 12:28 PM |
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Early type 3 wheel options
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.
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| posted on December 1st, 2015 at 05:16 PM |
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PM'd
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| posted on December 1st, 2015 at 05:53 PM |
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NOT many options there 4 wide 5 stud
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| posted on December 1st, 2015 at 08:13 PM |
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NOT many options there 4 wide 5 stud
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indeed, saving my money and spending on other things looks likely.
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| posted on December 2nd, 2015 at 10:37 AM |
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What year type 3?
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| posted on December 2nd, 2015 at 01:00 PM |
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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??
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| posted on December 2nd, 2015 at 03:36 PM |
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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.
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 01:54 AM |
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all the ones i sent you 
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 08:21 AM |
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What year type 3?
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hey its a 65
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 08:23 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by volksmanharry
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.
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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
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| posted on December 3rd, 2015 at 02:45 PM |
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OG sprint stars 5.5 wont fit...
For best result you will need to do the axle swap
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