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Originally Posted by Nikki
19 x 9 ET 43
19 x 10.5 ET 30
will those fit?
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I have an 18x9 +38 on the front and it's pretty close to the strut tube. Heck, it also sits out pretty far too. The 9" front has to have just the right offset, I'd say in the +32 to +35 range is ideal based on my wheel setup. The +43 will be 5 mm further inward, so closer to the strut tube, but this is a better offset to fix through the use of a spacer. More often it seems to me that too little offset is much harder to deal with than too much offset, within reason anyway. You can only run spacers so wide....but you can correct too much offset with spacer, not so many ways to correct a wheel with not enough...
Not sure about the 10.5 +30 rear, probably will be tight depending on rubber. My 10" +27 with 285/35 tire sits pretty far out.
IMO, and it's just that - an opinion, the easiest, sure way to go for a great fit, no worries about rubbing, many tire choices is with an 8.5" front, 9.5" wide rear wheel in your choice of 18" or 19" diameter. There's a wider range of offsets that will fit with no problems in these wheel widths - above these numbers, offsets become more and more critical, and also it seems like attention may need to be paid to alignment parameters too (eg., adding camber to get things to fit).