WHY LOWER YOUR CAR?

[smellurkebs]

yea...IN YOUR OPINION!

[jonesy9]

17's look good but tbf my car handles like a bag of poo!
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loud exhaust also gets u some looks! haha

[pariAh]

hehe 17's make your car handle worst then a bag of poo mate lol..

[dancotton2003]

i like my 15's


not going any bigger just newer

then lowerred 50 mm

[Chrex]

Yea, well 17's are for astras. they are too big for corsa's. 16's looks good but they have to be ET49-45 to get away with it so you can lower it onto them.

You put the 17's on a corsa and you knacker the handling. In motorsport, 15" wheels are used on the corsas, and thats done for a reason.

then again, i respect that some people will have different opinions so i think its wrong to have a go at anyone. however the fact is, 17's are too big for the car!

[dancotton2003]

a think that 17 yeah they may look slightly beter but they O_o nearly everything up on the car such as handling speedo they can rub

and a poo hot pair of 15's with your car lowered give optimal performance


but yes each to there own

[pariAh]

just gotta wait now till someone sells a nice cheap pair of 15's

[dancotton2003]

can have mine once i refurbed them lol

[smellurkebs]

i aint saying i dont like 15's with the car lowered...but i like 17's on the car too...not too fussed on "performance" as im hardly racing my car around the streets anyway...so looks mean more to me then performance

[dancotton2003]

im not rallying mine around the streets either but as u said u want looks more than performance and i want to still be able to hit a corner at 40 50 without ending up in a tree


but i think u should do what u think best

[pariAh]

dan what yours look like?.. how much aswell?.. 40£ the lot eh?:p

[dancotton2003]

yeah u can have em 4 40 buff if u pay postage ad look on my project log

there wolfrace 15/195's

there 5 spoke a think i cnt remember ahha

i dont look at them

ther curbed slightly but after my refurb they should be alright lol

[Reech]

I know nothing about cars; or at least very little.

I live in Essex but approaching 39 years old hardly makes me a 'boy racer'.

I bought my 93 1.5 TD Corsa B as a cheap to run car. It just happened to come with a set of TSW Black Ice 15" wheels and Yokohama tyres (immaculate except slight 'kerbing' on passenger side front wheel).

I do not have power steering and because of the wheels steering is quite hard. Parking is very tricky as I normally reverse park. Last car was Ford Orion 1.8i with power steering etc. so this is taking some getting used to.

Is there anything I can do to improve handling without buying new wheels? (in 'idiot proof' language please)

I wouldn't have the first clue how to 'lower' my car.

[pariAh]

would be easier if you had standard wheels on them?.. or stiffing the suspension with new springs..
you got a pic of your wheels mate?..

[polar b]

The majority of people who drop their car also forget that they are altering the whole steering geomotry.

If a car is lowered even as little as 5mm, the tracking/castor/camber will be altered, just incase you were wondering why the performance went tits up with the new springs and shocks It generally costs anything from £20 upwards for 4 wheel allignment, get it checked.


A good general rule of thum if you dont want your speedo to get you speeding tickets: for every inch you increase the wheel diameter from starndard, decrease the tyre profile by 5.

eg 195/65R13 on a 13 ins wheel to 195/60R14 on a 14 ins wheel.