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Oct 22, 2012 | 03:07 PM

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I know.Me being one of them lol,which I stated that and what you said in a previous post.

Oct 22, 2012 | 03:32 PM

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You can get some wider tires too

I have 215/45/17 tires and they raised my car 1/2 in when i installed them compared to my 15s

Oct 22, 2012 | 03:34 PM

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Oh. I've seen alot of people slammed on stock wheels and it didn't do that.

Just gave my opinion. Even on my TC i thought the same and i got wheel spacers. But if it's fine for you, i guess it's ok

Oct 22, 2012 | 03:40 PM

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I have spacers on my 17's currently.Makes a big difference.

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:23 PM

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If I get something like sportlines do I have to upgrade other things like my struts since it will be such a low drop?

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:39 PM

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I have 215/45/17 tires and they raised my car 1/2 in when i installed them compared to my 15s

The width of the tire doesn't make your car sit higher. My tires are 245/45/17

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:43 PM

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If I get something like sportlines do I have to upgrade other things like my struts since it will be such a low drop?

No you don't but ride quality will suffer.But it's not bad

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The width of the tire doesn't make your car sit higher. My tires are 245/45/17

Depends actually.Going from a 225/45/17 to a 245/45/17 is a taller tire.Easiest way to break down the metric tire size.
225 is width in MM.45 is 45% of the width and obviously 17 is Rim diameter.

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:45 PM

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If I get something like sportlines do I have to upgrade other things like my struts since it will be such a low drop?

I have cm springs and they are about as low as sportlines and I still have stock struts and shocks and they have 91k miles

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:46 PM

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No you don't but ride quality will suffer.But it's not bad

Depends actually.Going from a 225/45/17 to a 245/45/17 is a taller tire.Easiest way to break down the metric tire size.
225 is width in MM.45 is 45% of the width and obviously 17 is Rim diameter.

How is 245/45/17 taller than 225/45/17? Isn't the only difference in the tire the width?

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:49 PM

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245 is 245mm wide and 45 is 45% of the width.If you increase the width with the same profile.the profile increases as well.look at it this way.your sidewall is 45% of 225.now your sidewall is 45% of 245.Make sense?

Oct 22, 2012 | 06:51 PM

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The 45 is the side wall isn't it? Lol tires confuse me sorry

Oct 22, 2012 | 07:06 PM

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Yes 45 is the sidewall as 245 is your width.45 dictates 45% of your 245 wide.If you were to get a 225/45.your sidewall is now 45% of 225 so it gets smaller in diameter

Oct 22, 2012 | 08:20 PM

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easiest way to explain it is that the 45 is a ratio of width to sidewall. if you go wider with the same ratio it also goes taller, smaller width with same ratio the tire is shorter...

now here's 2 pics of my car from about the same angle just different distances but you can see the difference, the first is on Eibach Pro-Kit springs and the second is on Megan Racing coilovers... i'd love to get these same wheels in 17's but that most likely won't happen while this is my DD