What Kind of rims should I put on my Q45 (1997)

[hikealii]

Aloha Everbody,
I am a brand new owner of a Infiniti Q45 (: I want to get rims for my Q y33 but i dont know what size. I dont want them to look to small and I want to get a rim size 20' and under because I dont want to have to get spacers or roll my fenders. please help me my fellow enthusists.. Mahalo

[OwnerCS]

Welcome to NICO! What color is your Q?

I saw one on Craig's list for sale the other day with some 17" rims.

[maxnix]

18x9 et 30mm is about perfect, if the wheels are hub-centric. I have 18x9 et 35mm and there is about 5mm to spare from the strut.

[paranoidjack]

18x9 et 30mm is about perfect, if the wheels are hub-centric. I have 18x9 et 35mm and there is about 5mm to spare from the strut.

It's always amazing how close that gets isn't it?

Amazing how man has come from caves to "mm between impossibilities."

[Mopar]

I'm running 20x8.5 5x114.3 +35. These are MRR HR3's. I have to tell you I feel zero difference between the stock rims and these ones. I just made sure i put proper tires on them.

This setup does not rub or cause any headache, but it does give your car that 4x4 look and soon after you will be going crazy to find coilovers to drop an inch or 2.

You can see the pic in my avatar.

[BadQ45t]

I will second that. If your not going to lower the car by 2" I wouldn't put anything bigger than 17" rims on the car. But hey you can do it one step at a time. I wouldn't go out and buy some super-expensive aftermaket rims, than again I wouldn't buy any cheaper aftermarkets either. My first choices for you would be 18" 3rd Gen Q rims, or 18" or if you really want 20" find some FX35/45 rims that someone is selling. I always believe that if you can buy OEM and all of these rims were designed for heavy cars like our Q's. G rims seem to work okay for some members, but they wouldn't be my first choice. But with OEM they are always a better fit and you know they will balance consistently. When you go aftermarket sure you can get ones that will balance fine, but only the higher quality ones do that and who wants to drop 2-3 grand on a 14 year old car. I had a set of mid-grade quality 17" rims and frankly they wasted my time with constantly needing balancing.

Make sure when you go up in size you put some good rubber on there preferably XL load rating 98 or above since your going to be running lower profile.