New(ish) and a question kind of

[skip92]

Hey all 

I joined back in June after buying a bugeye wrx but thought I’ll wait till I need help/advice before post something I recently put a topic up under the wheel/suspension section and I’m waiting there for a reply there so thought I’d try my luck here also, so my question here is has anyone got any tips/idea on what 5x100 18 inch space saver would work as my spare is the standard 16 inch and well did this when I tried to get it out see attached and cheers for taking the time to read this so sorry for the long post so here’s my bug before I put the standard light back in 

 

[Jay762]

Dont think I have seen an 18" space saver, 15's and 16's - but as long as it clears your brake calipers a 16 should be fine (plus right profile tyre wall to maintain a matching rolling radius)

[skip92]

Cheers for replying, I thought as much as was hoping maybe another model would have had an 18 so I could get one, I just didn’t take a chance with the 16 as I’ve seen 18” inch one which was off a vw with the same 5x100 but assumed the bore would be very different might just go the buy a single alloy 

[Jay762]

What is wrong with the space saver you have as the wheel itself looks like the ones I have but you are holding a cone over it?

[skip92]

The cone I’m holding is the part of wheel well, that the “holding pin” I guess it’s called goes into that holds it place, the car had a small leak coming though the boot when I bought it but didn’t think much of it at the time (rose tinted glasses and all that) but it’s bit me back I’ll upload a photo when I get chance to properly show what I mean

[Jay762]

So the wheel itself is not broken just the mounting point in the boot?

[skip92]

Yup the mounting point is the cone in the photo I put up earlier I’ve got that off the spare now and the wheel is fine just two sizes too small compared to what’s on there I don’t really want to limp home and end up doing some damage if that makes sense 

[Jay762]

as long as the outside circumference is the same as your 18's you are fine even though the wheel diameter is small for example:

205 50 16

205 45 17

205 40 18

So if you spare has a 16 inch wheel as long as it has a 50 profile and your 18's have a 40 the rolling radius will be the same so you can use it no problem without !Removed! up your diff - obviously it will struggle to cope with the power and they are stamped to say no more thank 60KM I think?