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Old Feb 17, 2014 | 12:17 PM
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How wide are your front wheels for guys on 20'' Rims?

I am looking at buying a set of Panamera 20'' turbo wheels as i don't want to fit anything other than genuine Porsche wheels. Fronts are 9.5J wide so would like to know how wide your front rims are for guys who have fitted 20'' wheels genuine or aftermarket. I will be fitting a 245 profile tyre's, what size tyres do you have fitted?
Do you think this is too wide to have on the fronts? Car will be lowered on H&R springs.
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9.5" has worked for some people, BUT you'll need offset to be bang on. Probability is that the Pano wheel's offset isn't right.

I wanted to go 9.5" for track rims with 255 tires, but didn't want to gamble getting custom 18" rims wrong.

I've got 20 x 8.5" fronts w/ 245/30 MPSS. GMG Eibach lowered. I measured a +48mm offset on the wheel. The outer rim is 10mm from the outside edge of the fender. The inner rim is 28mm from the shock.

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I run 20X9 front and 20X12 rear.

 
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Originally Posted by 997tt+C63
I am looking at buying a set of Panamera 20'' turbo wheels as i don't want to fit anything other than genuine Porsche wheels. Fronts are 9.5J wide so would like to know how wide your front rims are for guys who have fitted 20'' wheels genuine or aftermarket. I will be fitting a 245 profile tyre's, what size tyres do you have fitted?
Do you think this is too wide to have on the fronts? Car will be lowered on H&R springs.
Thanks in advance
Make sure you do all your due diligence - wrong sized tires on the TT can fry the AWD differential.
 
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The front offset is ET65 9.5x20 on the panamera turbo wheels and rears is ET68 11x20j So i will be using spacers to get it right if possible. will try them on the weekend and post pics. hope i can get them to work...
Thanks for the replies guys
 
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The front offset is ET65 9.5x20 on the panamera turbo wheels and rears is ET68 11x20j So i will be using spacers to get it right if possible. will try them on the weekend and post pics. hope i can get them to work...
Thanks for the replies guys
You may like the way the wheels look but I don't think you'll like the look after mounted on the car. You'll need a 23 mm spacer on the rear just to get the Panamera wheels the same as the turbo OEM...and you'll have 11 mm less inner clearance. Try plugging your numbers in here -

http://www.1010tires.com/Tools/Wheel...ulator#Results
 
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OP, without providing too much details on why not, do not do this.

Look for a set of OEM GT3RS wheels instead. As Jhbrennan you need a massive spacer just to get to OEM specs which again are sunken into the fender. On the rear to get an agressive flush fitment you would require a 34mm spacer which is ridiculous.
 
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OP, without providing too much details on why not, do not do this.

Look for a set of OEM GT3RS wheels instead. As Jhbrennan you need a massive spacer just to get to OEM specs which again are sunken into the fender. On the rear to get an agressive flush fitment you would require a 34mm spacer which is ridiculous.
Yeah I'm not going to be fitting them after having a good long think. Its not worth the hassle and its to much work to get it right. I can't seem to find any wheels that look good as the gen 2's in black & diamond cut. Really want to keep the oem look and don't want to fit centre lock wheels as that's another pain in the ****. I do like the GT3 RS ones though...


 
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