Show us your 17s

[Paynewright]

@Paynewright. Any chance of a pic of one of the wheels a bit closer in please. I ask as I'm thinking about Wildpeaks for my Devonports (albeit still silver) now that their original tyres are finally starting to wear down but it's a toss up between them and Agilis CCs) That said, I'll be posting separately about what the new tyres might do to the speedo - having looked at a couple of those on-line 'wheel size calculators', I'm a bit confused!).

Will do in daylight. I did about 180 miles on them yesterday and really pleased with them. The speedo was about 1mph over at 60 so reading 61 and doing 60. There is a VCDS setting to change that can bring it down ie speedo reading > actual speed. There have been posts on the topic.

 

[Paynewright]

Close up pics…the rears are a bit inset. Not a fan of spacers so hey ho!

@Ayjay are they what you need?

 

[davecdjt]

Close up pics…the rears are a bit inset. Not a fan of spacers so hey ho!

@Ayjay are they what you need?
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The wheels look great in that colour with those tyres. I’d like to get my Devonports done like that. I have Michelin Agilis Cross Climates on the front and will put them on the back when those tyres are due change. I have spacers on my wheels fitted by Steve at @CRS Performance, who also did the suspension.

 

[TallPaul_S]

Aftermarket 17's solves that issue with the wheel being tucked away, I'm not running any spacers. The tyre just clears the Caravelle door trims with the doors open so I couldn't run any spacers if I wanted.

 

[davecdjt]

Aftermarket 17's solves that issue with the wheel being tucked away, I'm not running any spacers. The tyre just clears the Caravelle door trims with the doors open so I couldn't run any spacers if I wanted.

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I do find that despite mud guards the ‘spaced out’ wheels throw more dirt up the side of my white van.

 

[TallPaul_S]

I do find that despite mud guards the ‘spaced out’ wheels throw more dirt up the side of my white van.

They help a bit but there van still gets covered. They probably help more with stones getting flicked up.

@Ayjay VCDS alteration on a T6 is easy, obviously 245/65R17 is a fair bit bigger than my original 235/55R17 so used VCDS to change it and my speedo now reads about 1mph over at 60mph.

 

[The Bear78]

Aftermarket 17's solves that issue with the wheel being tucked away, I'm not running any spacers. The tyre just clears the Caravelle door trims with the doors open so I couldn't run any spacers if I wanted.

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Are you running different offsets front and rear?

 

[TallPaul_S]

Are you running different offsets front and rear?

Nope, same wheels and tyres all round: OZ racing Rally Raid, 8X17, ET35
Falken Wildpeak AT3WA 245/65R17 111H

 

[The Bear78]

Nice. Your rears looked to be sitting a little better than I expected compared to where the fronts are.

 

[Ayjay]

@Paynewright. Thanks for that - they look good. As I said, I think I'm going to have to put a post on here asking opinions about tyre sizes once I've got my head around it all and consulted a couple of calculator sites again. Currently, my instinct is to stick with Agilis CCs as they come in the same size as my current OEM Devonport tyres (215/60/17 107/109T) but are also expensive. More research and / or advice might change my mind though. Thanks again,

 

[The Bear78]

If youre comfortable with the price then I dont think you'll get a better tyre than the CC's. Their only other downside is that they aren't particularly chunky looking. If that's not an issue either, then it's a no brainer.