Hi there, I am purchasing these Rims, (Click Here To See The Rims) for my Mustang. As you can see in my signature below, I have an 07 V6 Deluxe. I was wondering what size I should get, the 18x9 or 18x10. And when I go with those sizes, what size tires should I get for front/rear.

Currently I'm running 215/65-r16. I really don't want to get tires too wide or get rims too big to catch the inside of the wheel well. I've had bad experience of that on another car.

Thanks in advance for anyone who can provide some insight.

 

You can go 18x9 all the way around and a good tire size would be 255/45r18. That will keep the same diameter as you have now and shouldn't rub. The 18x10 will fit the rear but then you can't rotate.

 

255/45/18 are ideal for the pony. I would stay away from the 18x10's to keep driveline weight down for performance purposes. Might want to reconsider ordering wheels from CC. Alot of negative feedback from this company, I had to cancel an order from them as well.

 

Except for the difference in wheel design, it'll look pretty close to the picture below. The tires are 255/45-18 and the outer faces of the 9" wide wheels you have in mind (+35mm offset) will be within about 1/8" of where these are.

I cannot find any offset information for the 10's, and since the wider you go with wheel width the more critical the offset becomes I can't make any reliable comparisons. I have heard that 18 x 10 x +43mm does fit, although a 10" wide wheel is technically half an inch out of spec for a 255/45 tire (think mild stretch here).

FWIW, in that picture I'm running a lot more negative camber than you're ever likely to and the car is rolling in a fairly hard corner. With a standard alignment and normal driving the tops of the front tires won't tuck anywhere near that far inside the sheetmetal, but they won't be quite flush either.




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I'm a strong proponent of a square setup. I'm running 18x9.5s all the way around and I've had staggered tires and 275/40-18s all the way around. The car was much more balanced with the 275s all the way around, so I'm in the process of changing back to that. (ordered two tires this week)

If I could do it all over again, I would order 18x10s all the way around. Roushes used to come that way from the factory. 18x10 +42 all the way around. My friend's RS3 has 275/40-18s all the way around on the factory Roush 18x10s, and it looks great. I have heard that Roush put steering rack limiters on their cars so the fronts wouldn't rub at full lock (in a parking lot) Still, I'd run 18x10s in a hearbeat. And I'd try 295/40-18s. But that is probably overkill on your car.

18x9 with 255/45s all the way around would be a solid choice.