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I've got 285/35/18 Conti Extreme DW's on 9.75" wide stock rear.
For Me: Had to have CS lower control arms and had to have small spacers made. Wheel was hitting the CS arms...not the tire.
This was on a car that I removed 20" HRE's that were 10" wide in the rear. It had stock lower arms and no spacers (wild alignment) and everything fit.
For Me: Had to have CS lower control arms and had to have small spacers made. Wheel was hitting the CS arms...not the tire.
This was on a car that I removed 20" HRE's that were 10" wide in the rear. It had stock lower arms and no spacers (wild alignment) and everything fit.
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I'm not sure you'll be able to get a 9.5" in there without some aggressive negative camber up front. My 275/35R18 is also 4.13% smaller than stock size tire, so it dropped the car 0.5" lower to the ground than when I was on the 245/45R18's.
I haven't put on the rear spacers yet to "square" everything up. I was going to wait for when I send out the other set of wheels to be widened to 10.5", but 295/35R18 PSS's are on backorder again and Weldcraft has a 9 week wait time to get new jobs in this go around
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FYI Here is both tire combo's back to back for visual comparison purposes
245/45R18 on 8.5"
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275/35R18 on 9"
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Those pics look exactly the same. At least I think they do. Do you have a comparo picture from the rear showing the stance. In my opinion no sense in getting a good side shot without a wider stance. GM really screwed up putting 245's on all 4 corners imo. My buddy has a 2002 M5 and BMW did it right!
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Those pics look exactly the same. At least I think they do. Do you have a comparo picture from the rear showing the stance. In my opinion no sense in getting a good side shot without a wider stance. GM really screwed up putting 245's on all 4 corners imo. My buddy has a 2002 M5 and BMW did it right!
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Oh yeah! 275's for the win. My 245/45R18's on non widened wheels tucked pretty good at the same ride height and didn't rub either. The wheel/tire package I have now fits really well and am very happy with the outcome. I'm using a 5mm spacer up front to clear the inside of the knuckle otherwise the widened wheel will not fit inboard. None of the wheels/tires stick past the fender, which was my goal, I hate that look.
I'm not sure you'll be able to get a 9.5" in there without some aggressive negative camber up front. My 275/35R18 is also 4.13% smaller than stock size tire, so it dropped the car 0.5" lower to the ground than when I was on the 245/45R18's.
I'm not sure you'll be able to get a 9.5" in there without some aggressive negative camber up front. My 275/35R18 is also 4.13% smaller than stock size tire, so it dropped the car 0.5" lower to the ground than when I was on the 245/45R18's.