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I may be acquiring a tasty set of 17" challengers this week. Before I part with the cash though, I'm just wondering if they would be a straight fit to my D turbo? Would I need to purchase some spacers, spigots etc and would the arches need rolling?
Tyres are 205/50R17
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You'll need 205/40/17 tyres and 15mm spacers!
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Technically you only need 10mm spacers on the back actually. But for handling purposes it's better to have the same the whole way round.
Only reason I had 15mm is Becuase they look better in the arches.
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It's actually 12mm all round to get the correct offset but it also depends on the width of the wheel.
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Thanks for the replies guys. The deal breaker on the alloys was that they had new tyres (I'm due some new tyres on my car). They're 205/50/17 so we've concluded that they're too big. I'm continuing to look for challengers/nimrods or cyclones maybe.....anything better than what I have now lol.
So with spacers, I'll need to get some longer wheel nuts too? Would they be tapered or flat? I've got harriers on the car atm so I've got tapered ones.
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They're flat seated taper. You cannot get then in extended bolts. But what I did was get stud conversion and use Toyota style nuts which first just right.
Oil burner is using my old setup and alloys now which are 307 aidels 17" running 205/40 tyres. You probably could get away with 50 profile tyres if your standard hight but the rolling radius would be off. Not sure if they'd catch either.
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02-11-2012, 11:47 AM
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I thought 206 was vortex. I thought 206 bolt straight onto the 306. Possibly wrong.
Speed shack do the conversion I think but they don't look very good. I looked at them at first.
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Yup your correct 206 wheels without centre bores are vortex as stated above
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