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Hey guys,

Was thinking of purchasing some new rims for the car and like the Gramlights.

Does anyone have any idea on the offsets i should be looking at..........17x9 either a +12 or +22 offset is available. From what i have read its my understanding that a +12 offset would give a larger dish than a +22. Or have i got my thinking all wrong????

Would like a little bit more dish effect at the rears.

Car sits a little lower, perhaps 15mm but that would be it. I have the crappy g4 adjustables also.

Basically I dont want the tyres or rims to be hanging out the guards as seen in the black 32gtst photo below.

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I would prefer it to look the way my car is now........see below

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What do you guys thinks????

Cheers

Mick

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Well to get nice fitment on a 32gtr you would usually get +22 which and a gtr has bigger guards than a gtst. So if you were to get +12 then I'd say on a gtst you would require some guard work to get them not to scrub at a minimum they would probably poke. anyway go here

www.rimtuck.com - and search for your car and you can see photos of skylines with 17x9 and different offsets to get an idea of how they might fit.

hope that helps

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  • 2 months later...

old thread, but how did you go? i think if you want your new wheels to fit like ones in the second photo u will need an even higher offset than +22.

hey mate yeah just got the money sorted so ill be buying them really soon. pity though cos i was after more feedback here, plenty of people have a lot to say bout random stuff but when asked something a little more technical it seems no one wants to answer.

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