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Old Aug 4, 2008 | 11:32 PM
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Those wheels already fit. Do a newspaper pull. Lay a thick stack of newspaper over the rear wheels and jump up and down in the trunk. It will slightly pull the fender. It's nice when a car with aggressive fitment is actually running wider tires.
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Old Aug 5, 2008 | 04:49 AM
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Originally Posted by chrispy
Those wheels already fit. Do a newspaper pull. Lay a thick stack of newspaper over the rear wheels and jump up and down in the trunk. It will slightly pull the fender. It's nice when a car with aggressive fitment is actually running wider tires.
Does this actually work? I have never heard of this.
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 09:51 PM
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I'm gonna buy exactly the same setup. This is a beautiful setup and I've seen probably thousands of sc300's. This has just solitified my purchase of an sc300. Amazingly beautiful car. Just sell it to me!
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 10:54 PM
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Keep 'em and make the fit! They're nice wheels!
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Old Sep 8, 2008 | 11:49 PM
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those wheels are awesome. i would personally exchange them for the correct offset.
almost every picture looks good except for that one straight on from behind the car. its tilted so inward and only the top barely fits in.
plus if you actually need wide tires for performance you will make better contact with the ground without all that camber. your tires already look stretched so at this point i would say only clean options are exchange or a slight pull.
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Old Sep 9, 2008 | 05:15 PM
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It's simple have the backpad of the wheel taking down a little.That will change your offset the more u can take the higher the offset will be.Thatz step 1,now for step two if you want to stay wider go 285/30r18 and put some negetive camber on that bad boy.Or send the rear wheels back to ccw and for a charge they can replace your outter lips. Goodluck
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Old Sep 10, 2008 | 12:08 PM
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keep them and make them fit.
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Old Sep 10, 2008 | 04:13 PM
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hehe i already bought em and made them fit.....
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Old Sep 10, 2008 | 08:16 PM
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Originally Posted by tyrufusbro
hehe i already bought em and made them fit.....
Lets see some pictures of it.
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