I've been looking but with no luck, trying to put bigger wheels under my 1200 ute. PLEASE HELP!!!

Hey mate,

I have FR17 Simmons on my 1200 ute (17x7 all round). They will fit with some guard modifications. You will need to lip the guards, may need to modify the front of the guard and you will need to modify the inner guard. Mine do not scrape/touch the guards and have been engineered. 16s might be a better option.

Its pretty difficult to get some off the shelf 16/17s that will fit without spacers. Most wheels made these days are the wrong offset. One word of advice, from previous experience, be very very very wary of using spacers.

17 be 7's whoa! thats huge Prodat u gotta get pics of ur datto man

Prodat do you know what off-set your simmons are(the distance from the back of the wheel to the machined face).It's just that I've tried to put a few different sorts of wheels 17X7 but they hit the front strut and the machined face dosent even come close to sitting on the front hub 20- 30 mm away the guys at the wheel shop tell me the only way its going to happen is with 16X6 and use spacers or gofor a set of Simmons or Dragways

Not too sure what the off-set of my wheels are. Will have to do some measuring. Most 17x7 wheels these days are made for FWD cars and therefore dont fit. My front struts are a custom job (180B). Simmons make them to fit and do a bloody good job.

Please do not go for the spacers if you have a bit of hp. I had spacers made up on my previous set of wheels. I ended up ripping the studs off the spacers/hubs effectively ruining one wheel and what could have been a massive crash (imagine what could happen at 180kph with one wheel falling off).

I will see if I can borrow a digital camera tomorrow to get some pics.

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I have 16x7's on my car now (it's a 1600, but it's a similar fit). I'm using spacers with no problems, but I also installed ARP wheels studs. They are 2.5" long and are rated at 190,000psi sheer strength.

Stock stud vs. ARP stud:



ARP studs installed:



Wheels on the car:

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That sounds about right.

I could find much of anything that fit without spacers. Most newer 17x7 wheels are a 40mm offset. You need something in the 15mm range.

Hey man i got 17 - 7.5 on the back of my 1200 just had to lip the guards

Wogboy
You ask for the wheel offset, then describe it as the distance from the wheel mounting face, to the back of the wheel. WRONG.
These are two TOTALLY DIFERENT specs.

The distance from the wheel mounting face to the back of the wheel is BACKSPACE.

Wheel offset is the diference in distance from the wheel mounting face to the imaginary centerline of the wheel. 10's & 20's has got it right.

The way to measure it is to simply measure the overall width of the rim, & divide this figure in half to get the centerline. Next, measure the backspace. If this number is greater than the first, or centerline figure, [it usually is] then subtract the smaller number from the greater & the result is the amount of "negative" offset.

If this backspace number is smaller than the centerline figure [rare] then deduct the smaller from the greater & the result is "positive" offset.

Please do not disseminate misinformation.