Lower On 16S Or Upgrade To 17S??

[Kev bailey]

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??

[Damon]

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

[Stoney871]

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.

[Damon]

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

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

[Stoney871]

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.

[Damon]

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.