FTO AUSTRALIA

i am currently looking for a set of 17x7 or 17x7.5's (stock wheels are tooo damn narrow!) but i cant really justafy going over the price of a set of tires to my budget :/

anyone know of anyone selling decent 17's second hand or otherwise for around 1k with tyres?

Well, for that price.... no....

You could try, http://www.tempetyres.com.au/
As a number of people of this forum have bought from there and they say it's pretty good...

Good Luck...

paladin wrote:stock wheels are tooo damn narrow!

I assume you are buying purely for looks then.

i mean width... the back end on mine keeps coming unglued... it funny cus the front hammers down like a champ!!

maybe its just my driving... prolly is

but i was hoping for some rims that look decent but are at least 7 inch wide

Sounds like you need your suspension checked (camber & alignment in particular) not wider tyres.

hmm :/ i got my wheel alinment checked shouldnt they find things like that in that sort of a test?

Depends what they were checking for.

The FTO has a slight negative camber on the rear wheels as standard, if the people doing the alignment weren't familiar with the FTO they may have put the camber back to 0.

Did they give you a print out with the readings?

no they didnt :/ ill take her in fora check wiht someone else :/

Most places are not familiar with the settings for indvidual cars so they set them as close to zero as possible.

However, you want your car setup for how you drive.

If the rear is sliding out, I'd start by making sure there was a negative camber on the rear wheels (probably around 2 degrees).

The FTO is a very good handling car and to have the oversteer you speak of is quite unusual, so I suspect the previous suspension place put the camber on the rear back to 0, which would actually create some instability in the FTO, as it has a negative camber as standard.

Make sure you get a print out when done, this will show you all the various settings such as camber and caster etc.

Take it to:

Inline Steering & Suspension
32 Yass Rd Queenbyan 2620
Phone: 02 6232 9955

i second that...

Inline = high quality..


Jono

Hey if you still want to get some bigger wheels..

www.upimports.com.au

www.option1garage.com.au


They have some good ones i think.

Jono

If you're going to get bigger wheels, do it for the right reasons, loosing the backend isn't one of those reasons

stoping the back end

well ill take it over :0 any idea how much they will charge for it?

Thanks fellas! she does seem a little less then she should

i should prolly add this losing the end is going 80k on the small roundabouts out of town to tharwa...

i do this by touching the brakes jsut before entry putting hte weight on the front then i turn in and accel lightly out of hte corner

what sort of handelign should i expect :/

OK, well the car is doing what it is supposed to then!

Putting larger tyres on, especially on the rear, will only make this worse.

arr really?
bugger
i was hoping for a fix other then replacing my suspension with coil overs or somthign :/
well i have to say it is a hell of a lot of fun

still i would like somthign other then stock rims
keep an eye out for me would you ?

more camber is the cheapest and easiest answer

do you know how much that usually costs?

basically what ever price they charge for a wheel alignment. It's just that you want yours alignment with more camber on the rear.