Anyone know what wheel offset EF Civics have?

[Setanta]

I know they have a PCD of 4x100 but I'm hoping offset is 32

[B16a4me]

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sorry nice prize tho

and the answer is........................................45!!!!!! !!

[EF6_CR-X]

Yep its 45mm,
but I have read somewhere that the range is 38-45, but many people end up with an offset of 40 when buying aftermarket wheels.

[B16a4me]

Yeah I agree, you could get away with 38 but not 32.

Setanta, looks like I just saved you some money

[Spunkymonkey]

don't worry he'll find something else to spend it on chuck

[incoming]

ive always wanted to know what the offset is for???....

cos i keep swapping my rims over with other car manufacters.. like KF2 tx3 and n14 sss... is that bad???

[Spunkymonkey]

I saw this p plater chick in a 4th gen civic today driving around a few times, and when I went to pick up photos this arvo, parked next to her at Woolies car park, and saw she had like 17s on her car with crappy Ziex on them.

I'm just thinking it was bad enough when lang had 15's on her car, the scraping...but 17s....

oh, looks like the rims weren't taking it too well either....could see the front one was bent.

[EF6_CR-X]

Originally posted by incoming
ive always wanted to know what the offset is for???....

cos i keep swapping my rims over with other car manufacters.. like KF2 tx3 and n14 sss... is that bad???

Offset is the distance from the centreline of the wheel to the mounting face, so basically what they want to achieve is to have the centre line of the wheel putting the load evenly on the wheel bearings, and as a result have the correct suspesion geometry, offsets that are far off from what they should be can affect your handling, rub the tyres, and put excessive wear on suspension components and bearings.

Also one thing that people don't take much notice of is to have the correct hub centering ring inserted into the centrebore of the wheel. The purpose of this hub centering is to ensure the wheel is in the right position when you attach it. More importantly though, when you go hard into corners, hit a pothole etc, the hubs' mounting studs are not actually designed to take the force, it is meant to be transmitted through the wheel straight to the hub, so if you don't have the right centering ring then you are putting one hell of a lot of stress on your mounting studs, and at the worst time they may all shear off, as you watch the wheel depart from the car.