tulsas

I need new tires. I have 18 inch wheels. Right now they are 225/40/18. Does anyone have an offset from front to rear on 18's? If so, what are your sizes. Any rubbing? also, does anyone have any tire recommendations?

thanks in advance.

rnye

Depends on your offsets. Low offsets on wide wheels require smaller tires to tuck on an S2000 (stretched tires). If you go pretty high on the offsets, you can go wider tires. I assume the wheels aren't staggered since you say 225s, so I would say run 215sF, 235/245R - OEM AP2 setup.

I'm running +50s all around with 225F/255R. I am lowered on Tein S techs and rub on big dips. A fender roll will solve this (not as intimidating as it sounds) and/or dialing in more camber.

I've seen some pretty aggressive setups and IMO - some just look stupid. Why? Because of the required high offsets its hard to achieve the "big lip" look. The alternative? Running a smaller tire on a wide wheel with low offsets. This is the stretched tire look. In my opinion I think its incredibly stupid to run a tiny tire just to run wheels that aren't designed to work with an application - the whole idea is to increase your contact path. But there are a lot of form over function people out there (that will still bash ricers while running 195s on a 10" wheel LOL)

That said, stretched can look good if its not too extreme and is still functional.

Stagger your tires for best results. 225/245 or 215/245 are my recommendations, depending on whether or not they are staggered.

babowc

imo it'd be stupid to stagger on a same width wheel on all 4 corners.

if you want to stagger tires, get staggered wheel setup.

s2k owners want to stuff as much meat as they can on their tires.. some just look rediculous when 235/255 are being stuffed on 7.5"-8" wheels.

255 belong on 9-10" wheels imo...

tulsas

thanks guys. The problem I am having is the wheels were already on the car when I bought it so I do not know the offset. right now, all four tires are the same size which is good for rotation, but may not be best for performance. Any idea how I can figure out if the wheels are the same size and if they have same/different offsets?

1FastS2k

If you pull the rims off, there might be some markings/stickers on the inside of the rims telling you the offsets. What kind of rims are they? I currently run a 225/40/18 front and 255/35/18 rear on my Works. My sizes are 18x8 +51 F and 18x9 +63 R. Don't know if that helps any.

tulsas

don't laugh as they were on the car when I bought it

The are Voxx wheels (not sure of model). Looks like they are sold at Discount Tire and DriverFX

00S

I would say you need a couple of new wheels. I have 18" SSR GT1's with widths of 8" in front and 9" in the rear with 225x40 and 255x35 SO3's.

jimbrowski00

This is a actually a tricky situation because we dont know the offset or the width of the wheel.

We need to know all three really, width, diameter and offsett. Without those numbers, you arent really going to get good answers.

I cant really offer any advice except to check online wheel catalogs and see if you can find the specs your wheels. You can try and post pics here (we wont laugh) and see if anyone recognizes them.

jim