Widening wheels.....

[Mateen9]

Say I wanted to get a shop to widen my wheels from an 17x8.5 to a 17x9.5, how much do you think they'd charge for the rears?

School me.

[Byron]

Probably would depend on whether you would want to add to the lip or the barrel. I would bet the barrel would be cheaper because it doesn't have to look as pretty.

Is it really worth it though?

[Tuck&Poke]

i know its not much, provided its local, it costs more to ship them out than to widen them

[Royal_T]

I have a link to a company that does this.. I called them before to widen my factory wheels and mind you they were 9" and I wanted them to be 11"..lol wanted to charge me around $150 a wheel. cause they needed so much to widen them..


If you like I can find the link

[Flavourless]

are these factory wheels, aluminum, steel? I personally would never widen aluminum one piece wheels as the amount of heat needed to re-weld them together after they have been widen would stress the rest of the wheel and to be honest is quiet scary to me.

[Mateen9]

I'm getting some staggered contours for really cheap and wanted to do something like this to them.

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?p=46667#post46667

I've always lived the fitment on this car and those wheels would be perfect on my alpine.

I figure that if I drop like $3-400 on getting these widened then I'm spending roughly $600 on a set of sick wheels.

[Tuck&Poke]

are these factory wheels, aluminum, steel? I personally would never widen aluminum one piece wheels as the amount of heat needed to re-weld them together after they have been widen would stress the rest of the wheel and to be honest is quiet scary to me.

it might be weaker but not to the point of it cracking over the first bump. i wouldnt do it to tenzo r wheels, but oem tends to overbuild the shit out of stock wheels

[Ericdd]

this place does it
http://weldcraftwheels.com/
but they quoted me $300 a wheel.
definetly let me know if you find a place that does in in the tri-state area, I'd love to widen my racing hart one pieces.

[JSanders]

Interesting I've been wondering about this.

[The Green Grundel]

I'm pretty sure its called 'banding" I knowthats what it is with steel wheels. I remember someone who had their IS300 factory wheels widened was saying he was having a really hard time finding someone till he called it banding. But I think in the end it couldn't be done because the wheels are aluminum. I think this is one of those things where you gotta just get new wheels.

[bjh102]

I'm pretty sure its called 'banding" I knowthats what it is with steel wheels. I remember someone who had their IS300 factory wheels widened was saying he was having a really hard time finding someone till he called it banding. But I think in the end it couldn't be done because the wheels are aluminum. I think this is one of those things where you gotta just get new wheels.

im not gonna be a dick and call u an idiot or anything but tell me why you couldnt widen an aluminum wheel.

there is no reason you couldnt do so.

[Chase]

You just need to find someone good enough to weld aluminum, it doesnt have to do with weakening them.

A good welder can weld aluminum