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 Post subject: after market xy wheels
Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:34 pm 
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any guys with 17 inch or bigger wheels on there xy xw can you let me no what width your wheels are do you have a prob with turning circle guard rubbing or any thing like that as i am at the stage of putting wheels on my xy wagon

 

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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 3:47 pm 
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Depends on how wide the wheels are and how low the car is MY XW GTHO is 1.5" lowered and the wheels are 15x8"wide and they sometimes hit on turning if you hit a bump! :(

 

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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:11 pm 
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wtf do you want to put 17"s on an XY for?

 

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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 9:18 pm 
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I've seen a few XW/XY falcons with 17's or bigger and they look rather nice Interceptor.
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 11:23 pm 
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personally anything over 16" or so looks out of place on the older falcons

 

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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:30 am 
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There are many XY GT replica's with sommonds FR 17 - 19 rims and lets just say that even thorpie the lebanese ricer would aprove.
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Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:40 am 
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not too bad, but it's pushing the point....... s**t me how many XY's are getting around with chrome or billet monstrosities on them

 

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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 1:45 am 
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A mate of mine put billits on his xw wagon, we steered away from 18's for the front for clearance, its got 225/45/17 fronts and 245/35/18's on the back, we tried my 235/50/16's on it first but scrubbed bad when on lock so we stuck with a bit more height , and less width , looks great.
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 10:17 am 
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i think if i look towards less width i will be ok i will try to find a wheel with a 7 inch wide tyre

 

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 Post subject: Yeah go for it
Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 10:39 pm 
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I've seen a few older cars all riced up. Some don't look bad, some look f**k shocking. I'm thinking that an XY XW would look like s**t, i havn't seen any done yet so i think that its worth a try to be different. I have and xf and i can't fit any bigger than 17's on mine with out loosing turning circle and increasing tyre wear by a f**k.
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