widening steel wheels - newcastle region

[Peter Jones]

Go large or go home.

15 x 8 et0

Centres are G60 Corrado steelies.

Eastern Wheel works made them up for me. Wheel Repairs Melbourne

[Surfpig]

thanks mate!

thats exactly what i needed

[Perun]

i was speaking with a guy from neale wheels today and he didnt know what i meant by et45 and et18 etc.
now im hell confused, because i thought wheel people would actually know what offset is?

he want to know what the back space was going to be?

has anyone dealt with these guys?

That's odd... I've been dealing with Neale Wheels for 10 years and they generally know their stuff. Did you actually say the "ET" bit? That might have thrown him off a bit because no one says that.

[rayray086]

i was speaking with a guy from neale wheels today and he didnt know what i meant by et45 and et18 etc.
now im hell confused, because i thought wheel people would actually know what offset is?

he want to know what the back space was going to be?

has anyone dealt with these guys?

Backspace is just half the entire width (edge-to-edge, not bead-to-bead) of the wheel + offset. So let's just say your wheel is 220mm wide, and you want an offset of ET18. That means you want a backspacing of 110mm + 18mm = 128mm.

Wheel builders generally prefer using the term backspacing because it's easier to work with.

[Surfpig]

ah rightio, cool. thanks for the info guys. makes more sense now

[Guest001]

Backspace is just half the entire width (edge-to-edge, not bead-to-bead) of the wheel + offset. So let's just say your wheel is 220mm wide, and you want an offset of ET18. That means you want a backspacing of 110mm + 18mm = 128mm.

Wheel builders generally prefer using the term backspacing because it's easier to work with.

Do you mean half the rim or the tyre I guess talking about wheels it means the rim

In the link I posted it shows backspace as the distance between inside of face of hub to inner edge of rim

In that link you can compare two different rims and tyres and see exactly what the difference is.