Any1 Regret fitting 17’s

27th September 2004, 23:43

Im still debating wether or not to fit 17's on my VTR.Having read loads of posts off SSC and here,in begining to have second thoughts.

Wots the pros and cons.........?

27th September 2004, 23:47

Depends how you drive your car really..... 17's look good but you lose some performance whereas 15s or 16s still look ok but you can throw the car into bends better.

27th September 2004, 23:49

like dave says depends how you drive obviously 17's do have a fair few problems but it all depends on how good you wanna look.

27th September 2004, 23:57

I dont mind loosing performance,just dont want to fork out all me wages 2 regret it at a later date.

So many people have different things to say

27th September 2004, 23:59

If you're not fussed about performance then i don't see why you shouldn't do it.

28th September 2004, 00:08

would you do the arch work yourself, or take it to R-Tec?

I do know its a pretty big job.Do severside motorsport do it?

28th September 2004, 00:11

Depends how confident you are. I wouldn't do it cos i'm a cack handed pillock when it comes to cars! Severnside have done loads of saxos with 17's.

28th September 2004, 02:16

u dont need to take the car anywhere to do the arches, i was in the same position as you, but i had 16" and was debating wheather or not to go for 17" in the end i did, its the best decision ive made, the car looks amazin im well pleased.

doing the arhes is a piece of piss, all you need to do is take front and rear arch liners out and remove ventilation boxes, take the rear bumper mounts off and grind away the little piece of metal that surrounds it, if your fitting a 205 tyre it will be fine, i can have 2 peeps in the back and it dosent touch at all.

if your not bothered about performance do it the car looks amazing.

hope this helps

28th September 2004, 02:30

well if your not too bothered about performance go for it, i did and it looks great

28th September 2004, 21:12

how long would in take?

i got all the tools to do it,just getting the time.

Could u post pics of ur car so i could av a look?

28th September 2004, 21:20

saxorich, is ur car lowered?

29th September 2004, 00:03

yeah his car is lowered 2 clicks (40mm)

29th September 2004, 02:37

it only takes a couple of hours, when you have taken all
arch liners out you should then underseal them.

30th September 2004, 04:46

nice m8.Are the rims Boss XTS's.

205/40/17?

8th October 2004, 01:05

nah they're dare v2's

11th October 2004, 00:58

the dare v2's look nice on the vtr,

11th October 2004, 17:12

I always think with VTR's when putting 17'' like the ones saxorich shows the disc brakes look tiny!

11th October 2004, 22:22

get urself big brake conversions of a gti6 then !

17th October 2004, 22:59

soz 2 steal post but along same lines like 17s is there a shit load more work 2 put 18s on>?