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Jun 14, 2018 | 05:05 AM

gs3nv

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Wheel rebuild help

Time has come to rebuild my trafficstars. I’m buying new lips and barrels from 3 piece wheels. My question is the sizing. I want to go 19x9 and 19x10 +6. I’ve looked at the calculators online and it look like I need 5.25 barrels and 3.75 lips for the front and 5.75 barrels and 4.25 lips for the rear. It can’t be that simple if the faces are mid disk and high disk. Or is it? Am I overthinking this? For those that say go measure I can’t the car is at a body shop out of state. Thanks for any help or advice that’s given.

Jun 14, 2018 | 09:47 AM

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For those that say go measure I can’t the car is at a body shop out of state. Thanks for any help or advice that’s given.

So? they have tape measures out of state also

Jun 15, 2018 | 05:44 AM

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I appreciate your constructive feedback. Can anyone else chime in with some actual help?

Jun 15, 2018 | 03:28 PM

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No it's not that simple, the other poster was correct. You either need to know the original offset, outer lip, and inner barrel sizes from the factory (and then caluclate the new specs from that) or you have to measure. No one can tell you what the offset will be based on lip/barrel sizes alone. Also those wheels are going to stick way out past stock fenders if they actually end up +6. Also good luck finding quarter inch increment lips and barrels. The come in 1/2" increments in the USA. Unless you're planning to convert some 1/4" increment Radinox lips from Europe or something........

Last edited by tiger4life; Jun 15, 2018 at 03:32 PM.