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This should clear things up (lifted from this page on Tire Rack).



Offset is the distance from the wheel centerline to the mounting surface, so a lower offset means the wheel is biased inboard.

 

I run 225-45-16s on my SSRs (16x7.5). Works great. I'd be worried about that offset though without spacers.

 

+42mm

 

Not quite. Look at the diagram from the perspective of the centerline, as though the centerline is fixed. Increase the offset and the mating surface moves outward. That's the effect of the spacers, they increase the offset by pushing the mating surface further out. If the offset is too low you'll have a clearance problem at the back of the wheel.

 

Rally is right of course. In fact, I have a set of wheels with 48mm offset and I have to use spacers to keep them from binding on the suspension.

Now I'm sitting here feeling like an idiot trying to figure out how I got that wrong...and think of an excuse... :confused5:

 

:lol: Nope, too easy. Think I'll go with stroke this time...yeah, had a little stroke...but I'm better now...yeah, that works... :ihih:

 

Back to the topic, how 'bout that +30 offset? I still think you're likely to have clearance problems...but for different reasons now that I'm visualizing it the right way 'round. Don't have any experience with that width and offset combo though so I'm just guessing.