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Lower On 16S Or Upgrade To 17S??

Kev bailey
Kev bailey
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I am after opinions please.

I don't want to heavily modify my car. 1.6 3 door sport 55 plate

Sick of the huuuuge gap between arch & tyre. Is it better to buy 17s or better to lower 30/40m & stick to my 16s??

Thoughts??

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    personally, I would stick 17's on, but still lower it, but not slam it. would look awesome mate

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    You can either bung on 18's which will look good and also fill the arch a bit more or go for an eibach lowering kit which will drop the suspension by 3-4cm.

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    18's would work yeah, and look really good actually

    but won't that knock his speedometer out of sync?

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    Not noticeably.

    The Speedos always read over anyway so most likely 18's would make the Speedo dead on.

    Best way would be to run them with a satnav on and check speed that way.

    On 16's mine always shows 3mph under the Speedo reading.

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    ahh right, ah well, go up to 18s mate lol

    probably wont b able to lower it much tho, but with wheels that big, wont need to.

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