{"id":264249,"date":"2010-02-02T08:22:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.team-bhp.com\/forum\/tyre-alloy-wheel-section\/74747-how-important-offset-et-wheel-during-wheel-upgrade-various-cars.html"},"modified":"2010-02-02T08:22:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:22:13","slug":"how-important-is-the-offset-et-of-a-wheel-during-wheel-upgrade-for-various-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264249","title":{"rendered":"How Important Is the Offset (ET) of a Wheel During Wheel Upgrade for Various Cars?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hi all,<\/p>\n<p>I have searched Team BHP for answers with regards to the title of this thread and also on many ocassions posted this question but never got an answer for the same.<\/p>\n<p>I have also noticed that in many threads regarding wheel upgrades, there are alot mentioning about the right size of rim for the car, right tyre size for that rim\/car and also a seperate thread with regards to the right PCD for particular cars and many links to the &#8216;Wheel &amp; Tyre Bible&#8217; to help us with the same. Even though I agree that these are all important factors to be considered while upgrading your wheels, I have rarely seen the &#8216;recommended offset&#8217; mentioned while doing so.<\/p>\n<p>I have read on the internet that the &#8216;recommended offset&#8217; is equally important as the other factors but rarely mentioned on this forum; so my questions are &#8211; <\/p>\n<p>1. Does one stick to the original offset of the stock rim at the time of wheel upgrade?<br \/>\n2. How does one calculate the &#8216;recommended offset&#8217; during a wheel upgrade.<br \/>\n3. How important is this figure?<br \/>\n4. What are the issues one can face if &#8216;recommended offset&#8217; is not adhered to?<br \/>\n5. Stock offsets &amp; recommended offset based on the best\/recommended wheel upgrades for various cars.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I have searched Team BHP for answers with regards to the title of this thread and also on many ocassions posted this question but never got an answer for the same. I have also noticed that in many threads regarding wheel upgrades, there are alot mentioning about the right size of rim for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4858,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}