I'm about to buy some new rims for my is300. I'm looking at some bbs 17x9.5 +2 in the front and 17x10.5 +2 in the back. Will this work or is this too crazy lol. Anything will help thanks for looking.

 

way too aggressive. you will have to flare or blow up your fenders.

Thats pretty much G35 / 350Z sizes lol.

 

This. I have 18x9/10.5 on my 02 mustang and I am not able to turn the front wheels all the way to one side without rubbing.

 

Damn I knew it too. The rims just look so sick and I was getting a good price on them. What's the most aggressive you can go in the is300?

 

Those are doable with super stretched tires, gobs of camber and some fender work. There is no "maximum aggresiveness" that the IS can or cannot handle, it all just depends on how much you're willing to work on the car to make it fit. I have 17x9.5+15 in the rears w/ -4 degrees of camber on a 215/40 tire, I had to roll the rear fenders flat and pull them out a little to make the wheels fit. It's more work than most people are willing to do (which honestly wasn't much at all), but it's not impossible to pull off. I'd say no more than 9" wide in the front and 10" in the rear for you to start with.

 

with that width id go with offset between +25 - +45 with a fender roll

 

Thanks for all your guys opinions I'm going I get them but now I need to save up for tires lol

 

You're definitely gonna need a flare to fit those. Gl on the fender work. Go slow and take your time if you're going to diy to prevent waves. If you decide to run hella camber, be prepared to buy tires every time you change your oil

 

a 215 series tire on a 9.5 inch rim..!!!

.. what the Fhuk?


kids these days,.......its all about the pose........... ....


back to the OP... while it may be possible it is probably not a good idea to try it...... despite what others may have done before ....UNLESS you are willingto invest in some radical fender mods to get them to fit right...hopefully with a properly sized tire on that rim Vs all this radically-stretched-so-i-can-make-it-fit nonsense....

personaly i think unless you are driving around like a (rhymes with 'Regina'..) all day long or never drive the car except for for shows and meets only,..... working that hard to make wheels and tires fit that are NOT SUPPOSED TO FIT is semi retarded and potentially unsafe.


... i'm all for doing significant mods to allow a properly sized, stretched or not tire wheel combo fit nicely and safely, but i have seen WAY too many guys sacrifice safety + performance and risk or experience significant damages to their cars trying to stuff a "stanced" wheel & tire setup onto it to get that " hellaflush/stance/fatlace " look... just do it right ... no worries ... but radicaly stretched tires over rims that are 2+ inches too wide for that tire is just plain ridiculous and potentially unsafe.

now..for those of you into this kind of thing...i noticed that new tire designs in the last 2 years have "stretched" profiles that look stretched out with out having to actually stretch the hell outta tires onto way too wide rims.. you can find tires that will give you the LOOK some of you guys are obsessing over without having to run a dangerously stretched tire/rim combo.


PS...... when i replaced my rear Bstone 275/30/19 SO-3's with the SO3 replacement, the Re050A.. i found that he tire profile is radically diffferent..... the exact same sized tire on the same rim looked like i had stretched a 235 series tire over that 9.5 inch rim... in fact the profiles were SOO different, i had to buy a brand new set of 245/35/19 Bstone Re050A's for the front because the car just looked soo damn retarded with the big square shouldered S03 Fronts & the stretched rounded super lo profile looking RE050a rears... the rear tires looked an inch smaller.....

even worse... AFTER i had left the tire shop and looked at the car for a day or two... i realized... for some reason the 245 series
Re050a fronts,..even tho they were the same size as t he S03's i had before were SOO different in design and shape, that the fronts STILL looked "Squared" Vs Stretched like the rear. Now in order for the PROFILES to match & look right .... i actually had to go to a smaller 235 series Re050A to get the wheel tire combo to look visually equal and right on the car ...


SO almost 2k later and 3 trips to the tire shop and i have a virtually brand new (3days on the car) set of 245/35/19 RE050A's sitting here.PLUS 2- 245/40/19 SO3's that are about 65% and one 275/30/19 SO3 with about the same tread left... im looking for a good used 275/30 S03 so i can run these again some day....and USE them... they cost a fortune also...

funny but with the new profile of RE050A...I can actually stuff up to a 295 rear Re050A in the back EASILY and i will HAVE TO to allow me to run the 245 fronts and not look retarded again....




****ing Cars i tell ya!!!

E.