What Wheels Fit my VW / Audi? - YouTube

today's shopdap.com we talk about upgrading wheels on your Volkswagen or Audi model.

upgrading your wheels is one of the easiest ways to improve the overall look

of your vehicle if you're just getting into cars this usually leads to intense

scrolling through Google images after searching your model and then the word

rims... or joining any Facebook group willing to add you and asking what's the

best wheels for my car

many of you are looking to get the best look they can for the least amount of

money this may lead you to want to keep the same size wheel and just upgrade it

keeping the factory tire size the same unless your car came from the factory

was pretty large wheels you're gonna spend a bunch of money upgrading your

wheels without tires for an overall look that's not gonna be great one of my

biggest pet peeves is upgrading to larger wheels with skinnier tires at

stock ride height while some cars can pull that off if they're low enough from

the factory most cars we left with a gigantic wheel gap you could fit a small

child in, which is a less than ideal look if you watch Mighty Car Mods you're

familiar with the shoe test go outside take off your shoe if it fits in there

then you need to lower your car.. you know what that's called? that's called science

even lowering your car in inch could be enough to get you the exact stance you

need to improve the overall look before you upgrade your wheels when you're

referring to wheel size what you're referring to is the diameter of the

wheel generally the size of the wheel that's going to look best in your

vehicle is relative to the vehicle you're upgrading if you're upgrading the

wheels on a land yacht you're gonna want something a little bit bigger than a 17

on a car like that 20, 21 or even 22s might be a reasonable upgrade for your

car if you're upgrading a small car like a mark 1 GTI a 16 inch wheel would be

considered a large wheel for that car on most current model cars

18s, 19's are going to be a great fit for

your vehicle and the average upgrade when installing larger wheels in your

vehicle you need to decrease the tire sidewall height to allow for the

additional wheel diameter that you've added this will allow the overall

rolling diameter of the wheel and tire package to remain the same

this way you don't affect your speedometer let's talk about tire size

there are three numbers in the size of a tire

the first number 225 is the width of the tire this is from side to side and it is

measured in millimeters the second number the 45 is the total sidewall

height now this is not measured in millimeters this is measured as a

percentage of the width of the tire the third number is going to be the overall

diameter of the wheel that's on the vehicle while that number will always

have to be the same as the wheel size at the vehicle the first two numbers will

change depending on the overall diameter that you're trying to reach with your

wheel and tire package if you had a vehicle from the factory with 225 45:17

tires and wanted to upgrade the 18 s your tire width MBA 225 40 18 if you

then wanted to take that same vehicle and upgrade to 19 s you'll be looking at

it to 25 35 19 here we have a 225 40 18 wheel and tire package this is a 255 35

19 from an Audi s4 now if we look at the overall rolling diameter is used in a

calculator you can see the Audi wheel and tire package is going to be

significantly larger and it's going to throw your speedometer off now let's

talk about wheel offset wheel offset is a number that determines how far the

wheel sticks out from your vehicle pick a number too high and it will be sunken

into your wheel well pick a number to low and it'll be poking out making

people wonder if you intended to do that on purpose wheel off set is a number

that is measured from the centerline of the wheel to where it mounts to the

vehicle to give you some real-world examples let's show you how offset

affects wheel mounting here we have a racing line r360 wheel this is a

19-inch wheel with a eight and a half inch width this is an offset of 44 this

is what the wheel would look like with a 34 offset this is what it would look

like with a twenty nine millimeter offset and this is what it would look

like with a 24 millimeter offset

next let's move on to the neuspeed are rse10 18 by eight-and-a-half with an

offset of 45 this is what it would look like with a forty offset this is what it

would look like with a 35 offset this is what it would look like with a thirty

offset and this is what it would look like with a 25 offset next let's look at

hub bore the wheels on your car bolts to the hub of the vehicle there's a lip at

the center of the hub that the wheel sits on this lip allows the wheel to

stay centered and prevent vibration when it's properly mounted on the vehicle

most VW models use a hub bore of 57 point 1 millimeters many Audi models use

a hub bore of sixty six point six millimeters with other models using a

larger hub force some aftermarket wheels use a larger center bores to allow them

to fit more vehicles this requires hub centering rings which you can mount in

the center to allow your wheel to be centered on your hub if you attempted to

mount this 57 point one millimeter hub bore wheel on to an Audi that had a

sixty six point six millimeter hub bore you would not be able to do it because

it would be too small to mount over the hub failing to use the proper sized hub

centering rings on the wheels that you upgrade to your vehicle will definitely

result in vibration issues that you will never get rid of the way you would get

the correct hub centering rings for your vehicle would be to measure the hub size

your vehicle and I match it to the inner diameter of your hub rings and then

measure your wheel inside hub bore and match that to the outside diameter of

your hub rings this will ensure you have the wheel properly centered on the

vehicle lastly let's talk about wheel bolts we're gonna break this down into

bolt pattern and then bolt seat type these are two very common bolt patterns

found on Volkswagen Audi models this 5 by 100 is a previously popular size

whereas the 5 by 112 has pretty much taken overall current model vw and

audis the bolt pattern on vehicles will vary but the most prevalent one in the

Volkswagen Audi space is 5 by 112 this means you have 5 bolts in your vehicle

and it measures one hundred and twelve millimeters from the back of one bolt

seat into the center line of the adjacent bolt hole failing to purchase

the right bolt pattern for your vehicle will result in a wheels that do not bolt

up your as you can see here this is a 5x100

wheel on a 5 by 112 car so this is a much narrower bolt pattern and needs to

be so you can see where the difference is and at 5x112 versus 5x100 bolt

seats are important but are often overlooked to the untrained eye these

may look like the same wheel bolt but these have very different bolt seats

which are very important for the mounting of your vehicle this bolt uses

a ball seat whereas this bolt uses a cone seat the bowl seat is referring to

the shape where the wheel bolt actually mounts to the wheel itself most factory

VW and Audi wheels use ball seat bolts while many aftermarket wheels use cone

seat bolts failing to have the proper wheel bolts in your vehicle will result

in a serious problem many people when they buy an aftermarket set of wheels

and all they have are the ball seat bolts they'll crank down on them to try to get

them to tighten up on the wheel this often will lead to damage to the wheel

and potentially have the wheel loosen up on you even after they've been mounted

on the vehicle so there we have our wheels 101 for upgrading the wheels on

your car there are tons of great helpful tools out there on the internet which we

will link to in the description which can help you with different wheels

offsets to how they'll affect the overall stance in your vehicle these are

great tools but may not be the defining factor of what will be the overall best

look for your vehicle while there are a ton of places we sell a large variety of

wheels from a variety of manufacturers they are great options for you to make

sure before you purchase you have a rough idea of how the work the other

place you can go is to online forums which also have great assets for people

who have listings of all the different wheels on the same car or at least you

can get an idea of different looks for different wheels my advice is if you're

looking at a wheel and you liked overall aesthetic I would Google your make and

model with that wheel name and see if you can come up with some pictures of

that wheel on your car to allow you to find out the exact wheel that might look

good on your car thank you so much for watching if you like this video be sure

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previously on my strange addiction Paul Barett owner of Deutsche Auto Parts has

an unbreakable love with wheels for those 19 inches or less nothing else

matters and his employees are starting to get

fed up I'm working on fitment guess one more don't worry about it it's too big

for your fender you can't fit it.. it looks amazing

it's gonna be awesome don't worry about it huh but unfortunately as long as Paul

has access to all different types of wheels his disease will never be cured

there's something about wheels that just calms me down