Hi,

I have a GD3 with stock height and stock suspension.

My front tire are: 195/50/15 & my rear tires are: 185/55/15.

Would the rim fit fine on it?

Would it cause any rub to the car/calipers?


Regards,

 

size and offset?
otherwise no one can tell if it will/wont rub

 

Hells no I had a set of gt3's about 6-7 years ago that broke while I was on the freeway at 70 mph scary and that was my second set of rota wheels that broke while driving on the street I wouldnt buy another set from them

 

theyre rotas.. you get what you pay for.

 

Hmm...I have had 3 pairs of rotas and drove the shit out of them. Never had any problems whatsoever. Not with cracking, mounting, breaking, nothing. All of them held up like champs.


Oh and BTW...the pic of the EP in my sig is with Rota GT3's.

 

really? so after the first set that broke, you put ANOTHER set on?



you do get what you pay for, and its pretty decent i say. if you dont have the money to spend on super expensive wheels, rotas are a perfectly fine alternative. and PLENTY of people have been driving the PISS out of rotas for YEARS.

i just picked up some tarmac II's for a buddy who drives a WRX wagon and the quality is very nice. (they are modeled after the 1700 oem sti bbs'.)

i've always thought its funny that honda guys, especially the ones making less than 200whp, would fret over rotas when 300+hp awd monsters roam the streets with them.

 

from my experience rota's been pretty much the same quality as drag or tenzo or any other dress-up brand wheels so i say go for it.

 

Hmmm you're planning to fit 15s?

I know the 16s will rub because there's just not enough offset and too much width (they're 16"x7") to clear the rear fenders. Checked the Rota website and they say the 15s are 7" wide too...you might still get some rubbing. Offsets are +40 and +42.

No way you can tell without mounting them and loading up the rear though. You might still get away with it.

HTHs

 

with that high of an offset i dont see why they would rub unless you were running a beefy tires like the original poster is. i can run 205-50's with no rubbing but the 195-55's rub on my car

 

i just got DR16's which is the same thing as the gt3 btw the same company that makes rotas makes drag wheels.

i will post a pic of them tonight.

 

I just put some Drag DR20s (15x7 4x100, +40 offset) on my stock tires (195/55/15) on a stock suspension, and it doesnt rub at all. my car is a daily though, and i dont haul a lot of stuff, so i havent really loaded down the suspension yet.

if your wheels are close to mine, they should be okay.

 

On the Rota website, the GT-3 in 4x100 at 15" only comes in 15x7 +40/+42.

That being said, I think you should be fine. You may rub just a little bit with the wheel turned all the way to full lock, but other than that you should be fine.

I have 15x7 +35 with 195/50/15 and I rub like crazy...but I'm tucking about 1.5" of tire

 

here are my new freshly installed drag dr16 installed them friday and i just went autocrossing with them yesterday sunday. they are 16x7 40 offset and they rub a little on the front but its nothing a pair of sicsors and a baseball bat cannot fix. tires on them for now are cheap falken 912's 205/45/16

 

Well it wasnt back to back sets. There was two different sets on two different cars about a year apart. The first set were slips and I thought cause I bought them used and because of the amount of pot holes I had been over that that was the cause of them breaking. But when I bought the gt3's and they broke I was like its cause of them being cheap. Im sure that rota's aint the only wheels that are cheap or break but the chances that two different sets of rotas would break is not a coincidence to me. And im also sure others have had bettet success with them I just wouldnt buy any more after my experiences with them.

 

Rotas are ok for street use. I wouldn't recommend them for track use though.

 

Perfectly fine for the track in my experience. Could be a wee bit lighter, but otherwise pretty good.

If Rotas are as bad as people claim them to be then I shouldn't be alive. After Christmas 2008 I ran over a runaway wheel chock that I couldn't avoid at about 50 mph. One of my wheels struck it. If Rotas are bad wheels, then the wheel should have failed straightaway and my tire should have had a huge leak. But no, I just got a bent wheel rim, sidewall damage and a slow leak, and I still managed to go straight. A few repairs, a change of tires and it was back to normal.

People in the wheel biz will tell you that's the mark of a good wheel doing its job: it maintained the integrity of the tire the best it can.

 

Pare, I saw a Civic break one of its Slipstreams at the track. I'm just going by real life experiences, not stories. I'm not saying Rotas are horrible, I'm just giving my recommendation. That's all.