I like 18" wheels. I'm having a hell of a time finding out anything about them where 90% of the tire and wheel threads on here deal with 20's. Lets talk about factory and aftermarket. Offsets and Backspacing. What's stock, what's just tucked, and what sticks out past the wheel opening. The 20's have thread after thread. It's time for us superior humans with 18's to have their own thread. 20 guys will be given noogies and shown the door. Pluses, minuses, mistakes made in the past, huge success stories. Tell it all. I also want to talk tire makes and sizes. Charts showing what the metric designations means in terms of how tall and how wide are they? Different tread patterns, road noise, off road capability, looks. I'm old school I always dealt with 14x36 12x33 11.50x31 all on 15" rims. You young whipper snappers have to help me out.
Here's what I'm personally looking for. An 18x8 with an offset that will move the wheel toward the outside about an inch. Tire wise, I'd like to stay about an inch taller than stock but with as much width as the truck can handle. I live out in the boonies. It's 20 miles to anywhere. When I do go offroad it's on loose gravel or loose dirt mountain trails, or I go to cattle farms where it would seem floatation would matter much, much more than ground clearance. I'm not digging ruts in a man's pasture. If I start spinning I"ll go get his tractor way before I'm grounded. Heck if I need extra ground clearance I can just go to ORII with Quadra Lift.I want more width more than I want more height although an inch taller wouldn't hurt. Taller tires are like a higher gear. I don't want to lose any more bottom end torque than I have to with that 3.6L.
Here's the wheels I really like. Not sure what the numbers mean. 18x8 with 30 offset. Where will that put me exactly? An inch out from stock, two inches? I want to stay just tucked and very close to centered in the wheelhouse side to side. Just pushed slightly out like a 1" spacer on a stock wheel. These are the wheels I'm looking at right now. They seem really light weight.
Amazon.com: American Racing AR899 Series Silver With Machined Face Wheel (18x8"/5x127mm): Automotive
Opinions on these wheels too.
I'm going silver due to all the chrome on my 2011 overland and I'm not ambitious enough to remove or black out all that chrome. Black wheels are available if you prefer them.
OK lets here about your 18" wheels and tires. Maybe we'll have some fun along the way and some of us might accidently learn something (Like me for instance). I'm going to try to do both.
Here's what I'm personally looking for. An 18x8 with an offset that will move the wheel toward the outside about an inch. Tire wise, I'd like to stay about an inch taller than stock but with as much width as the truck can handle. I live out in the boonies. It's 20 miles to anywhere. When I do go offroad it's on loose gravel or loose dirt mountain trails, or I go to cattle farms where it would seem floatation would matter much, much more than ground clearance. I'm not digging ruts in a man's pasture. If I start spinning I"ll go get his tractor way before I'm grounded. Heck if I need extra ground clearance I can just go to ORII with Quadra Lift.I want more width more than I want more height although an inch taller wouldn't hurt. Taller tires are like a higher gear. I don't want to lose any more bottom end torque than I have to with that 3.6L.
Here's the wheels I really like. Not sure what the numbers mean. 18x8 with 30 offset. Where will that put me exactly? An inch out from stock, two inches? I want to stay just tucked and very close to centered in the wheelhouse side to side. Just pushed slightly out like a 1" spacer on a stock wheel. These are the wheels I'm looking at right now. They seem really light weight.
Amazon.com: American Racing AR899 Series Silver With Machined Face Wheel (18x8"/5x127mm): Automotive
Opinions on these wheels too.
I'm going silver due to all the chrome on my 2011 overland and I'm not ambitious enough to remove or black out all that chrome. Black wheels are available if you prefer them.
OK lets here about your 18" wheels and tires. Maybe we'll have some fun along the way and some of us might accidently learn something (Like me for instance). I'm going to try to do both.