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Old 02-24-2008, 12:52 AM
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will these wheels fit?

well an 18"x8.5J" wheel with an offset of 35 fit my '92 SVX? or is it to wide? bolt pattern: 5 x 4.50 or 5 x 114.3
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Old 02-24-2008, 01:30 AM
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Hope this helps

Sorry I don't know personaly,
but CrazyPilot says:
On an 18x7.5 wheel I would go at least 225 width. 7.5 is the stock wheel width, and most SVXii run 225/50/16 on those. I have 205 width snow tires on my stock wheels, and they look noticably too narrow for the wheel. I don't care for snow though, because I want a narrow tire for winter.

My suggestions:

1. 225/40/18
2. 235/40/18
3. 235/35/18
4. 245/35/18

In my opinion 1 and 2 are the best size for a 7.5" rim. 3 and 4 are best suited to an 8" wide rim. #1 keeps the closest match to the stock diameter, but all are well within the 3% difference considered the limit.

245 is a wide as I would go. If you look at tire fitment charts (I'm a licensed tire technician, so this is stuff I do every day), you'll see that 255 is best suited to rims 8.5-10" wide. I can make tires far out of the fitment range work, but it's not a great idea.

Maybe 235 0r 245 for your wider rims?
Good luck, Keith

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Tires is tires, but that offset of 35 is a long way from home!
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The Murano rims i have on are a 35mm offset and are only 7.5" ride. These rub every so often when I hit an extremely bad dip or bump. The car will most likely will rub in the rear if you are using 8.5".
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ok cool, thats what i needed to know! thanx guys!
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Nope, they won't work.

Not as they are anyway You MIGHT be able to go to a machine shop and get the inner face of the wheel machined down a bit to effectively give the wheel more offset. A guy here with a red 5MT SVX has Mustang wheels that rubbed. He had the mounting surface of the wheel machined down 5mm or so and voila, rubbing issues gone.

This may or may not be possible depending on the thickness of the wheel where the lug nuts are. For example, my BBS wheels aren't very think at the center, so I wouldn't be comfortable thinning them down further. The wheels on an Infiniti G35 are massively thick, so lots of room to remove material.
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Nope, they won't work.

Not as they are anyway You MIGHT be able to go to a machine shop and get the inner face of the wheel machined down a bit to effectively give the wheel more offset. A guy here with a red 5MT SVX has Mustang wheels that rubbed. He had the mounting surface of the wheel machined down 5mm or so and voila, rubbing issues gone.

This may or may not be possible depending on the thickness of the wheel where the lug nuts are. For example, my BBS wheels aren't very think at the center, so I wouldn't be comfortable thinning them down further. The wheels on an Infiniti G35 are massively thick, so lots of room to remove material.
aight, cool, thanks man
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