need advice to purchase new rims and tires.

[zeydie]

Hi. Im a newbie on this. Never change rims on my previous cars.. now i got an Altima coupe 3.5 SE 2008 all stock and wanted to buy new rims. What would be the best specs without any problem like rubbing. Wanted it to be smooth running.

one guy sold me a Vossen CV 3 rims with specs of:

-5x114.3
-front 18x8.0
-rear 18x9.0
-offset +35

is this good enough? And what size of tires for it to look dope and run smooth?

[ezb57e]

Welcome to the forums.
The best specs for smooth running and no rubbing are the factory specs.
In later Altimas the factory offered a 235/45R18.
Is that big enough?
What's on it now?

[zeydie]

I got the stock 215/60/17. I dont want ot bulk. i want it to be good looking tires. Is the vossen specs above are good enough? If so with what tires? Thanks for the reply mate.

[r0ng5]

if you don't want to "bulk", i suggesting going up to 19's or 20's. However, if you stay with 18's, you can run lower profile tires... but would probably want to do other mods (lowering, etc) to make it fit right. If you do run lower profile tires on the 18's, you'll have smaller-than-stock look and thus will probably want to fill in the gap.

any other mods planned?

[metalmagician]

in my opinion the biggest you can fit is 245/35/20. That's what I have and That is as big as I can get without rubbing. to tuck the rear my camber is set to -2.7. I love the look