[s-cars] AVUS Wheels

[Gabriel Caldwell]

They have no problem clearing the stock brakes or even big blacks for
that matter, but they do look sucked in.  An 11mm spacer would bring
them back to the stock look.

I ended up getting rid of mine because buying spacers and longer bolts
is a lot of money to spend on cast 7.5" wide wheels.

-----Original Message-----
From: s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com
[mailto:s-car-list-bounces at audifans.com] On Behalf Of Dave Ellis
Sent: February 17, 2006 9:21 AM
To: AUDIJIM at aol.com
Cc: s-car-list at audifans.com; Audi5TurboTech at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [s-cars] AVUS Wheels

AUDIJIM at aol.com wrote:
> What 17 inch AVUS wheels fit on an UrS4/S6? Will the 7.5 j X 17 et45
from a 
> 2001 S4 fit correctly?
> 
> Jim


ET45 is slightly too inboard, but will *probably* still clear the stock 
brakes.  A 7mm to 10mm spacer would help to make the wheel look properly

centered in the wheel well.  An offset of ET35 to ET38 for a 7.5" wide 
wheel is generally best.  What width tires were you planning on running?

  With the planned tire width I could let you know the optimum offset, 
or see my post on Audiworld some time back regarding wheel offset for 
the UrS4/S6:

   http://forums.audiworld.com/s4s6/msgs/94585.phtml

Note that the offsets I listed in that Audiworld post are *ideal* 
offsets for various width tires, balancing the need to maintain the 
intended track of the car balanced with handling and aesthetics (filling

the wheel wells nicely).  Other offsets will work o.k. in many cases 
(for example when driving in really deep snow I run 205/60-15 ET40 snow 
tires/wheels, which work well but sit a little too inboard aesthetically

speaking).

-Dave
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