[V8] replacing wheels

Tony and Lillie tonyandlillie1 at earthlink.net
Fri Jun 3 04:49:55 PDT 2011


The V8Q came with 17" Bolero wheels from the factory, just not over here. We 
had 17's on our car when we bought it, and they caused no issues. They were 
17X8 with 35mm offset. However, I don't like the tramlining of them, so I 
swapped for 16X7's with 225/50 16's.

Tony

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: Re: [V8] replacing wheels
>
> 1. The Audi V8 Quattro was produced by the factory with only two wheel 
> size variations throughout its model run.  The first was the 15" flat 
> faced, "pie dish" wheel" which was most common in '90 and '91 model years, 
> replaced by the BBS "Mesh" wheel.  The BBS wheels were offered for the V8 
> (and the 200 20Valve) in 16" size with the same width and same offset.  To 
> my knowledge there were no other wheel variations either standard 
> production or optional purchase offered by Audi for this car. 



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