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Those bigger rims/tires give that car such a muscular look, and that's also a tasteful design. Looks so good on white. Well done.

How much has it affected your gas mileage, if you don't mind me asking?
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Follow up and full disclosure:

I made an error in calculating the wheel size and tire size. While 90% of the time, under regular driving, the monster 18x9.5" + 255/40/18 combination worked well, the other 10% of the time I was getting some light rubbing on the inner fender walls of all four tires. Mostly in the front, but when going over dips all four would rub. A costly mistake, no doubt.

I took my car to a shop that works on track and race cars to see what my options were.

1. Rolling the fenders? Definitely not my first choice, and I was told that it may result in buckling since our fenders are very thin already at the place where fenders normally get the roll treatment.

2. Adjust camber? Unfortunately not an option since we have no lowering springs at this time, and (as was explained to me) camber bolts will not work with our cars.

3. Thinner tires? This may or may not work. When deciding between trying new wheels vs. trying new tires, I chose the former.

4. New wheels? This was my choice. I chose to go with 18x8 wheels all around, and seeing if I can keep the 255's on them. This worked just fine in the back, but the fronts were still close to the fender walls on full turn, so I went with 225's up front.

There are two issues to consider when upgrading wheels - wheel width and wheel offset (wheel diameter is a choice also, but most will stick with 17" or 18" wheels, presumably). Wheel width at 9.5" is too wide for our cars. I would not go any higher than 8.5" for worry-free driving. In the front I would not go lower than +40 for offset. In the back, +35 to +40 with an 8-8.5" wheel with 235-255 width tires is the optimal range.

I have a new setup now - and it's a killer. I'll post photos soon!
 
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tires are the answer dude. I has 18x9.5 and 18x10.5 on a lexus sc300 that's a huge car compared to the civic and I put a 225 on the 9.5 and a 245 on the 10.5 your going to have the stretch the tires to make it not rub.
 

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It was so obvious you were going to have issues with tires rubbing. Sounds like a costly mistake....

Where are the new photos?
 


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Where are our updates? Over excited to see the change.
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