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Fitment tips for rookies,
brought to you by Fitment Industries.
Let's talk to you about something
you probably never really thought of
'cause either you've bought wheels in the past
or you just never made the mistake.
But contrary to popular belief out there,
there are some pretty good mistakes you can make
when it comes down to buying your first set of wheels,
especially when you're trying to nail down
fitment situations.
A lot of times when people buy their wheels
for the first time, they listen to their friends,
the friends that usually have no idea what they're doing,
they're usually the friends that have absolutely no idea
what offset is, but they found the ones
that look really cool 'cause they're multi-piece
and saw their one friend on Instagram has it,
which means now you have to have it.
And then you buy the wheels and they stick out 3 1/2 inches
past your fender, and you're thinking to yourself,
why did I spend my tax return on these wheels
'cause they look absolutely just plain dumb.
Well a lot of it comes down with just understanding
some of like the basic fundamental things
on understanding how fitment
and how to buy wheels actually works.
So we're here to give you a couple tips
for our fitments noobs out there
because it's Fitment Industries, this is kinda what we do.
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The number one thing that you guys have to remember
when you're looking to buying wheels,
when you're looking to dial in your fitment,
is gonna be going down to just going to the basics
of where you're going to find information on your car.
Now, we have a huge gallery at www.fitmentindustries.com.
It's got like 12,000 vehicles right now
and it grows every single month because (mumbles)
changes the number.
Or every single time I say the number it changes
and then the video dates itself and it's really awkward,
but it's consistently growing.
It allows you to see what sorta specs
other people are running.
There is an older variant that you can also use
in the interwebs that you probably haven't heard of
in a good long time, and they're called,
you're gonna wanna come in on this,
you're just gonna wanna just zoom in,
and it's called forums.
Forums are something that have had a lot of this information
for quite a long time, and if you're looking
to just understand the basics of what your car
is going to fit, a lot of times forums
can be a really great place to at least start.
They're gonna give you some basic ideas
on what sort of wheels that they went with,
what sort of styles look good on your car,
and then obviously what size wheels they went with.
The only problem with a lot of forums
is that they don't usually include offset
because a lot of times for some reason
people just don't think offset is important
to let people know when they're telling them
what wheel size they have.
It's like 18 by 8 1/2.
What offset? I don't know.
And that like seems to be normal thing.
So if you're looking on the forums
and you are seeing certain sizing
but you don't see offset, don't just jump on whatever offset
you want because you have to remember
that offset is gonna make the difference
between your wheels being ya know, flush,
to being maybe 10 or 15 millimeters poke,
depending on what sort of offset you get.
So just have to take that into consideration.
Another great thing that you can do
especially if you're like a fitment like noob,
you just never done it before,
is measure it out for yourself
and if you're wondering how to measure it out for yourself,
we actually have a video that you can watch
that can teach you the whole boring way of doing it.
But it's actually a really fun way to learn
a little bit more about your vehicle
and dial in perfect fitment.
If you're going for a static setup
or if you're going for a bag setup,
a lot of times when you can measure out your wheels,
you're going to get a much cleaner setup
than you would if you just kinda guessed.
Now at the same time, we would reflect back
to our indirect plug of checking out our gallery
at www.fitmentindustries.com,
but if you don't want to do that
and you wanna measure it, you can do all of that.
You can measure for the diameter,
you can measure for the width,
you can measure for the back space, and the front spacing
and it's gonna give you the offset, your center line,
you're gonna be able to figure out your mounting pad,
your surfs and all that sorta stuff.
And you're gonna get a pretty cool sorta process
of figuring out what wheels fit your car.
Now the only with that is that if you're fitment noob
and you've never done it before,
you should probably measure it like three or four times
so that you don't make a mistake.
Another thing that we usually get with a lot of people
is that they think they dial in their fitment right
with their wheels
but then they don't take any account in for tires.
You have to remember that tires play
like this quintessential role in terms of making
your fitment either look really really good
or really really bad.
If you're stretching some serious wheels
on some 18 by 8 1/2's and you're on stock suspension,
it's not gonna look the best,
but if you pair that 8 1/2 with something that has
a meatier sidewall, it's actually not gonna look that bad
until you actually get your lowering springs
or coilovers or anything like that.
The biggest thing with tires is that they do add,
well, circumference.
They add more to your wheel, and if you're not taking that
into account when you're measuring your wheels
or you're not taking that into account
when you're looking at what sorta setup you wanna have,
or the fitment measurements or anything like that,
you're gonna make a pretty big mistake
because any sort of wheel,
unless you're going into extreme low size aspect ratios,
is gonna probably mess the whole thing clean off.
And two more things that you probably wanna think about
that you're probably not, especially when you're doing
your first set of wheels for purchase,
and I got something in my eye so I'm gonna talk
'cause I'm rubbing this out because everybody always loves
when I do that and I'm gonna make my face red
'cause I'm white and then there's a white screen right there
and it's gonna make my face red.
But you have to think about your suspension
and then you have to think about your big brake kit.
You have to think about if you have
any sort of larger brakes on your vehicle.
STI's are iconic for having it.
There's a lot of other vehicles out there that have
bigger brake kits that you have to pay attention to
or certain wheel designs will not fit on your car.
Don't, don't, if you think there's gonna be a problem
because you got Brembo brakes on your car,
you just gotta ask and be like hey, will this fit?
And a lotta times actually if you get your wheels
at www.fitmentindustries.com,
which was kinda sort of a plug, sorry about it again,
we'll actually double check with you
because we don't want to take the wheels back
and then there's this huge return thing,
and that's a huge pain in the ass for everybody involved,
whereas if we just tell you at the get go
that's it's not gonna fit,
it's usually just a win-win for everybody.
It's something to take into consideration.
Suspension is the same way.
Depending on what sort of suspension
that you're planning on getting,
that can also affect your fitment.
If you're measuring for your wheels at full droop,
you're also making a mistake,
which is a bonus point for you.
Droop is when the whole suspension is like this,
you need it like that, but that's besides the point.
Really when it comes down to suspension,
it's just making sure that you're not gonna have
any sort of larger suspension components
that would run into your tire as what you have currently,
if you have an OEM suspension system
or something of that nature.
And really at the basis of what you want,
it's really how you want it to look.
Do you want a tuck setup, a poke setup,
do you want a staggered setup, a flush setup,
or anything in between, you're gonna want to know that
before you go into buying your wheels.
A lot of times people will buy spacers over time
to kinda get that fitment if they really want to,
but you can accomplish a lot of that aggressive look
without having to add spacers, as long as you research
everything you need to know before
you buy your first set of wheels.
And that's ideally and realistically
what we're actually here for, is with the gallery
and with answering the questions and all that sorta stuff.
So, if you've gotten through this video
and you're like this is your first time
and you're like I'm still as confused as I was before,
head over to fitmentindustries.com,
you can enter in your make, model, see what fits,
and if you have questions you can email us, bug us,
drop a message, drop a comment, drop an IG tag,
drop a handle, whatever it's called, that you need to do
to get in touch with us because we have like
40 people out there that that's what they do.
So, let us know, was there questions you guys
want us to answer next.
Whether it's a noob thing, or whether it's an expert thing
in terms of fitment related questions.
Don't forget to check out www.fitmentindustries.com
for wheels, tires, suspension.
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