Languistic

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Just picked up some 3 piece work wheels, +42 offset in front and +44 in rear. Someone said that I would be able to reverse mount the faces of the rims to get a lower offset? I was not too clear on what they meant.

Yes

The face is bolted to the barrel on a 3 piece wheel. I'm guessing they meant that you could unbolt the face and rebolt it on behind the mount, but I don't see how that's possible. You could get new barrels with more aggressive offsets, but that's expensive. Or you could just use spacers. Here's how a 3 piece wheel is put together, btw...

onihc

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YES. reversing will lower your offset.

inner lip becomes the outer lip.

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That makes sense if the inner barrel is polished. Or if you have it refinished. Most I remember seeing have been raw metal.

mitsuguy

iTrader: (2)

yah, and most wheels doing that would end up with a hugely negative offset... if an 11" wide wheel has an offset of +35, and you do this, our new offset should be -35... thats almost 3" difference, so, for the above mentioned wheels, your +44 offset would become -44 offset, or a difference of almost 4"

something tells me you don't have room under the car for a -44 offset wheel, of any width...