Wheel Offset

You hafta think about the width of the wheel also to work with a lift not just offset... Like rough country 4-5" needs at the most a 4.5" backspacing to work... on a 10" wide wheel that's a -12mm offset and will work... on an 8" wide wheel 4.5" of backspacing would be +12mm offset and work with the lift... but on a 12" wide rim -12 would be 5.5" of backspacing and won't work with that lift... you'd need at least -38mm offset on a 12" wheel but not too many people run 12" wheels haha but I've seen a few runnin -44... My stock wheels had +25mm offset and worked with the rough country lift that's a 7" wide wheel with 4.5" of backspacing, yes even though thier site says will not work with stock wheels, some stockers do work

 

its a 9in wide wheel, with -12 offset

 

So 4" backspacing? that'll work with the Rough Country 4-5" lift... I wasn't trying to correct 97 Red but I just didn't want someone that's lookin for wheels to come across this and think they needed a negative offset to run a lift...

 

Good explanation a7x

 

Thanks man! I posted a thread in the tech info section called "wheels 101" further explaining tire and wheel fitment

 

Good idea man. It should help lots of people