OFFICIAL: Aggressive Wheel fitment FLUSH/STRETCH sedan
#2341
11-05-2010 | 02:04 PM
#2343
11-05-2010 | 02:15 PM
We did alot of this in Mexico because we had no other options. I actually sold aftermarket products that were contraband(at the time) and never came across any lowering springs or proper fitting wheels..the concern was the lug fitment not the offset.
#2344
11-05-2010 | 02:41 PM
#2347
11-05-2010 | 10:22 PM
Okay - I've bit my tongue long enough... saw this post in the "look what I got thread" and decided to post my feelings.
Massive negative camber is nothing new - but many people on this site are too young to have seen the evolution. The reality is; years ago cheap little beaters owned by young kids with no money would run around on wheels that didn't fit the car... the wheels were cool (to the owner) and would be in a price point they could afford so they "made it work" by shoving wrong size wheels under the car.
Back then the same type of people that couldn't afford upgraded suspension or even lowering blocks, would cut their springs to drop the car/truck (just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here).
The trend evolved to what is today - a fashion statement for the car (even though it began as a ghetto way to have after market wheels). It's not at all unlike baggy pants - when I was in elementary school some kids would wear baggy pants because they were hand-me-downs from older brother(s), that turned into a fashion statement of wearing jeans low and showing 1"-2" of boxers waist band (it became the cool thing even though it started from a cheap alternative to new pants)... The baggy trend further evolved when gang-bangers started carrying guns (instead of using knives, shanks and fists) and they purposely wore loose pants to conceal guns as big as sawed off shotguns... that ended up translating to a fashion statement and kids would actually buy over-sized jeans to look cool (like the gang bangers I guess
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So this whole trend of widely exaggerated negative camber and stretched wheels all started from kids forcing wheels that don't fit on their car... To this day it still looks the same to me (just more awkward on a semi-luxury car than an old beater).
Okay - I've said it... now I'm done.
Massive negative camber is nothing new - but many people on this site are too young to have seen the evolution. The reality is; years ago cheap little beaters owned by young kids with no money would run around on wheels that didn't fit the car... the wheels were cool (to the owner) and would be in a price point they could afford so they "made it work" by shoving wrong size wheels under the car.
Back then the same type of people that couldn't afford upgraded suspension or even lowering blocks, would cut their springs to drop the car/truck (just to give you an idea of what we're talking about here).
The trend evolved to what is today - a fashion statement for the car (even though it began as a ghetto way to have after market wheels). It's not at all unlike baggy pants - when I was in elementary school some kids would wear baggy pants because they were hand-me-downs from older brother(s), that turned into a fashion statement of wearing jeans low and showing 1"-2" of boxers waist band (it became the cool thing even though it started from a cheap alternative to new pants)... The baggy trend further evolved when gang-bangers started carrying guns (instead of using knives, shanks and fists) and they purposely wore loose pants to conceal guns as big as sawed off shotguns... that ended up translating to a fashion statement and kids would actually buy over-sized jeans to look cool (like the gang bangers I guess
)So this whole trend of widely exaggerated negative camber and stretched wheels all started from kids forcing wheels that don't fit on their car... To this day it still looks the same to me (just more awkward on a semi-luxury car than an old beater).
Okay - I've said it... now I'm done.
#2348
11-05-2010 | 11:58 PM
#2350
11-06-2010 | 11:29 AM
#2351
11-06-2010 | 12:23 PM
who am I to say right or wrong anyway; that's why I mentioned just a perspective... no herrafrush angry from me unless someone sneaks in the garage and puts negative offset wheels with -5 camber on my car, then they get shot
- but on someone else's car- if they like it they like it.
#2353
11-06-2010 | 03:41 PM
#2354
11-06-2010 | 04:46 PM
OIC - you were asking because I used your sorta flush post from another thread.... I wasn't posting in response to you - the sticker just prompted me to post my perspective that's all... nothing to do with you doing anything right/wrong...
who am I to say right or wrong anyway; that's why I mentioned just a perspective... no herrafrush angry from me unless someone sneaks in the garage and puts negative offset wheels with -5 camber on my car, then they get shot - but on someone else's car- if they like it they like it.
who am I to say right or wrong anyway; that's why I mentioned just a perspective... no herrafrush angry from me unless someone sneaks in the garage and puts negative offset wheels with -5 camber on my car, then they get shot
- but on someone else's car- if they like it they like it.