linderpat

I'm putting Carrera 3's on my car in place of the flat dish manhole covers. The rear C3's are 18" wheels, 10" wide, 58 offset. The tires mounted are Michelin Super Sports, 265/40 size. The car has 10 mm spacers on it. If I take off the spacers, the wheels/tires go too far into the fender and hit the back side and rub. If I put the spacers on, the tires stick out too far, and when the car is lowered, the tires will interfere with the fender lip when the suspension settles ofr when driving over bumps etc. I do not want to roll fenders. So I am thinking a slightly smaller tire on those rims, like a 255/35 (lower profile and thinner) coupled with a smaller spacer, like the one for sale here, but maybe a 5 mm is better. Just looking for feedback. Thanks Stan and all.

Bertrand Daoust

Ed,
When I bought my set of Carrera 3's, they came with 265/40 in the back and were rubbing on the Inside. Even with 15 mm spacers.
I changed the tires for some 265/35 and it fixed the problem.
Michelin SS here too.
With the 15 mm spacer, I still have about 8-10 mm between the tire and the fender lip. Stock roll fenders here though.

linderpat

Thanks Bertrand. Bob V also has these tires, with stock rolled fenders on his GT. The spacer issue is interesting. The 10 mm spacers push the wheels too far out for the wheel well on my car.

Sorry for the hijack Kevin. Did you sell the spacers?

Kevin in Atlanta

Not yet. :-)

Kevin in Atlanta

Cannot locate manufacturing marks.

This what I see in the spacer.

linderpat

Kevin - maybe it's the way the picture was taken, but they look thicker than 37 mm. Have you measured them?

Kevin in Atlanta

Bulvot

Yeah, but when was the last time that you calibrated that so called "ruler"? Just giving you a hard time. Hope you find a taker for them, they look like just the ticket for the right car.

Mrmerlin

so its 37mm spacers

linderpat

They'll be too thick for my purposes. GLWS.

85euro928

Ed,
The problem is that tire is too tall, that's why it hits. A 265/40 is about 26.3" in diameter, you need to be closer to 25". I run 295/30 on the rear on 11" C3's, 51et no problem because the diameter is 25".

Wisconsin Joe

'Cuz I hate threads that have no resolution, and I like to give credit when credit is due...

Got these from Kevin.

He responded promptly to my PMs, was willing to let me send a check (I don't do PayPal), packaged them very well and PM'd the tracking info as soon as they were on the way.

They showed up yesterday.

Now I gotta get some lugnuts and put them on.