(S) 70mm offset?

Hi Guys
Another wheel question i`ve been checking out some alloys and the guy says they have a 70mm offset seems huge does that sound right?
Cheers
Adrian

70mm? Hell, what width are they? That's 40mm more toward the centre of the car than a standard Cento Sporting alloy!

They are a set of 5 spoke revies off an alfa sud sprint on ebay at a tenner,i thought offset sounded like a mistake but i guess it might be rwd?
Cheers
Adrian

I'd be surprised if the 70mm was right. Ask Steve C - he's got an Alfa Sprint.

Weren't the alloys J333EVO put on his Cinq like that sure he had 30mm spacers

Hi Jamie
AAron`s ritmo rims only had a 60mm offset and thats massive.The wheels i`m looking at might actually be the pink ones you are going to look at.
Cheers
Adrian

Pm me a link mate.... i'll let you know

Yes my rims do have an off-set of 60mm which is the biggest I've seen, 70mm does sound excessive. I had to use 30mm spacers to give me a 30mm offset & they were easily the biggest spacers I found. They were from FK Automotive & cost £200 so v.v. expensive but wonderfully engineered. The spacers bolt to the hub then the wheels bolt to the spacers with the existing bolts & actually makes putting your wheels back on easier than it was before as they have a hub locater which means you put the wheel on & it will sit on the hub & let you turn the wheel to line up the bolt holes!

This page explains it & shows you how to measure if its not stamped on the wheel rim.
http://www.tyresave.co.uk/choose.html

Aaron.

Hi
Steve c said his car has a 40mm offset sounds more like it.
Still i think i`ll leave em just in case.I think the wheels are from an alfa 33 originally.So no idea what offset they use.
Cheers
Adrian

40mm sounds rite to me, it was only the MK3 Strada 130TC that had the 60mm offset (as I said I had never came across anything that big before), all the others had 40mm and I'm sure FWD Alfa's are the same, you have had a reply from an Alfa owner confirming this, plus 10mm spacers can be had for little money.

If the wheels are nice & are cheap then why not give them a shot, you can always resell them again on eBay or something.

Aaron.

PS just a little point I remembered, some companies list spacers with a off set for the whole car, i.e. 2 10mm spacers are sold as 20mm offset if you see what I mean, ask the guy if he means a 70mm off set per pair i.e. 2 wheels with 35mm offset.