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18's vsxx on lexus is350 yay or nay??

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Old 02-20-12, 08:53 PM
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I had a set of 18" Work VS-XX on my first generation TSX about two years ago. They looked tiny, even after I adjusted the suspension to a lower setting. My vote is for a 19" set on a 2IS.
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Agree, save up and get some 19"s. I came across a lot of a good deals on some nice 18's in the past. However, I forced myself to be patient and I am glad I did. Had my T1S for almost 2 years and still loving it each time I see it. You will tend to get tired of looking at the small 18's and end up spending more money trying to make the wheel stand out. Just my opinion though.
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Originally Posted by silk509
19 is such a rare number tho I heard the tires see more expensiver
The tires will be more expensive than the 19s, i got more 4 tires for less than $500 shipped from onlinetires.com
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Originally Posted by Muggy
Agree, save up and get some 19"s. I came across a lot of a good deals on some nice 18's in the past. However, I forced myself to be patient and I am glad I did. Had my T1S for almost 2 years and still loving it each time I see it. You will tend to get tired of looking at the small 18's and end up spending more money trying to make the wheel stand out. Just my opinion though.
totally agree......
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18s look wayyy small on the IS...but thats just IMO
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It all depends on what you want. The look will really depends on tire size,offset, how low you are etc. Here are a few examples of our cars on 18's...

Crappy picture of my car








and here is a whole thread about our cars with 18's.

https://www.clublexus.com/forums/is-...-on-2is-3.html
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Originally Posted by SCWB
18" 3 pieces mesh wheel tends to look like 17" wheel. This is because the spokes can't extend all the way to the rim lip.

Yup this. If you go 18 you shouldn't have a lip if you want the wheels to look "bigger". At 18 you will look smaller than stock with the vsxx
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Originally Posted by JEFFOS69
Yup this. If you go 18 you shouldn't have a lip if you want the wheels to look "bigger". At 18 you will look smaller than stock with the vsxx

It still can look good but the wheels will look smaller when beside someone with no lip and 18s.

As noted above 18s can work nicely too.
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I'd go with the 18"s!!
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omg i was thinking the same thing.I decided 18" slam but aggressive offset what you guys think
18x9.5 offset +11 and 18x10.5 offset +16
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^ You will have a hard time fitting those offsets. I am running same size in +22 all around and it has taken a good amount of work/cutting to get these to work.
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Originally Posted by tp350
^ You will have a hard time fitting those offsets. I am running same size in +22 all around and it has taken a good amount of work/cutting to get these to work.
lots of fender mods ?
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Front: heated liners, cut tab, bent metal flat next to tab, cut plastic next to tab, rolled and pulled fender. Rear: Rolled and pulled fender, shaved some of rear tab and quater panel where it meets the bumper, and megan camber arms.
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Don't get the same size as stock.
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