Looking to buy steel wheel/winter tyre package for my a3 s/b 140 s-line tdi. Anyone know the smallest wheel size that will fit over brake disc/calliper? Website i'm looking at only quotes for 16" steel wheels!
Smallest wheel fitment on A3 tdi
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17" is the smallest you can fit but you will have to get wheels with the correct offset and width
Why not purchase a set of second hand sport alloys?
Why not purchase a set of second hand sport alloys?
Boydie is wrong.
16" will fit fine regardless of disc/caliper size (Not sure if the brakes are 280mm or 312mm on your model)
15" will fit if you have 280 Front/255 Rear, the Golf Mk4 PD130's has 280mm Front / 232mm Rear and came as standard with 15" alloys.
Obviously the offset is important and I guess you will probably be slightly dropping the width for traction, I guess you are looking at the camskill/mytyres packages? I did consider this myself but found it worked out cheaper to just buy a set of tyres and have them swapped over a couple of times.
16" will fit fine regardless of disc/caliper size (Not sure if the brakes are 280mm or 312mm on your model)
15" will fit if you have 280 Front/255 Rear, the Golf Mk4 PD130's has 280mm Front / 232mm Rear and came as standard with 15" alloys.
Obviously the offset is important and I guess you will probably be slightly dropping the width for traction, I guess you are looking at the camskill/mytyres packages? I did consider this myself but found it worked out cheaper to just buy a set of tyres and have them swapped over a couple of times.
Thanks for replies, yeah it was my tyres packages i was looking at. Might just go down the tyre route. Thinking dunlop sp winter sport 3d as they get quite a lot of good reviews although not exactly the cheapest! Whats the narrowest width i could go on the standard s-line 18" alloys is it 215?
I was looking at the Nokian WR G2 and the Vredstein Wintrac Extreme, the dunlops get good reviews though.
I was consider 215/45/18, to reduce the width and increase the height, it all depends on what you are likely to drive through, I work in quite a remote area and while Haldex is a wonderful invention it can't defy the laws of physics.
I was consider 215/45/18, to reduce the width and increase the height, it all depends on what you are likely to drive through, I work in quite a remote area and while Haldex is a wonderful invention it can't defy the laws of physics.
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The 312mm brakes on the Mk4 golf fit fine under 16" alloys.
Like I said I don't know if the brakes on the 2.0 TDI are 280mm/288mm/312mm or whatever, but as above on the Mk4 they were fitted with 280mm/288 discs and the 15" alloys fitted.
I could be wrong but the calipers look similar/the same to me.
In summary 16" will fit, 15" may fit depending on brake size but I would borrow a wheel first to check it out though.
Thinking about it, the SE came as standard with 16" alloys!
Like I said I don't know if the brakes on the 2.0 TDI are 280mm/288mm/312mm or whatever, but as above on the Mk4 they were fitted with 280mm/288 discs and the 15" alloys fitted.
I could be wrong but the calipers look similar/the same to me.
In summary 16" will fit, 15" may fit depending on brake size but I would borrow a wheel first to check it out though.
Thinking about it, the SE came as standard with 16" alloys!
Called costco for a quote, said he couldnt get his hands on anything over 16" 205's as they've all been swalled up overseas in europe. Said he'd had a sh*t load of calls today for winter tyres!
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I think the SE models had 16" as standard, Sport 17" and S Line 18" (Although upgrade options available on all models)
This is a handy calculator for changing wheel / tyre sizes and keeping the overall dia as close as poss to the standard size (Helps speedo under / over reading problems)
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http://www.etyres.co.uk/tyre-size-calculator.htm
im sure that the se trim cars came with 16" wheels only the sport came with 17" wheels mine did only golfs came with 15" wheels
