Help with some wheels

[Ja]

Right, my dad brought some new wheels for his Vitesse. He wants to know what he needs to buy to get them on?

The wheels are '5 1/2J 13" cosmic wheels with 11mm inset' and hes written down the code RW108 aswell?

Hope this is enough info! Thanks.  :)

[Ja]

Bit more information, still hoping someone can help.

The wheels are orginally off a TR7

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Also my dad wants to know what the widest tyre is you can fit on the wheels without causing problems? He wants to put 205s on.

Thanks!

[heraldcoupe]

I'll leave the wheels question to someone else, but 205s are going to cause a lot of problems. Turning in wheelarch lips usually becomes necessary around 175 profile.
What does he want to achieve with the bigger tyres?
Cheers,
Bill.

[Ja]

Appearance thats all! He just likes wide tyres and wanted to know how wide he could go.

Thanks

[Clive]

To get the correct wheelnuts you will need to look at a website such as
http://www.graystonengineering.com/wheelnutmenu.htm
Which lists all the wheelnuts available, then you can check and see what fits. You may need to also use wheel washers as 3/8" thread is a bit restrictive.
Clive
Oh, and Bills reight about the Tyre sizes, you need to check the offset against std, but I think 185 is about the limit in practical terms, and that depends heavily on offset.
Clive

[Nick Jones]

Nice wheels. Heralds/Vitesses don't really have room for huge tyres.

185/60 might fit but are a bit wide for 5 1/2 wheels.  205s definitely won't go without some metalwork and are far too wide for the wheels.

Also, the suspension is not very well suited to wide tyres - too much camber change.  175/70 fit, are ok on 5.5 rims and won't cock up your speedo reading either.

Nick

[Ja]

Thanks for the advice guys, much appreciated (:

[Jonny-Jimbo]

My rally-ish Vitesse is on 185/60s on 5.5 rims, with no major issues, although the lip has been knocked back a little bit, so 205's will be far, far too large; more to the point they will ruin the handling and make the road noise even greater. No point in going silly with the tyre sizes; a decent small tyre will (probably) handle better than a crappy large tyre. Mine are Yokohama A539's, and have had some racing, Round Britain and a few track days; plus 8 months of daily hard use on them and are barely worn.