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Old 17th January 2013, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by deezee View Post
Why would you need the wheel to sit 3mm closer to the car? The offset is a measurement to the centre of the wheel and is irrespective to the actual width of the wheel, be it 7 inches wide or 6 inches.
Surely offset increases or decreases as width of the wheel changes, assuming that the 'outside' end of the wheel stays the same - otherwise offset is meaningless?

E.g. if a wheel is 100mm wide and the offset is 40mm it means the 'spoked bit' of the wheel is 10mm thick (i.e. the mounting face is 10mm inside the wheel - but on the outside edge). If the same wheel is 200mm wide and the 'spoked bit' of the wheel is 10mm thick then the offset would need to be 90mm??

*numbers made up for illustrative purposes...
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