Team Banded Brothers.
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Can i ask what is the general consensus on how far I need to lower the van with 18" banded steels? I am looking at all the suspensions at the minute and don't want to make an expensive mistake. I don't want to buy a kit that in the end doesn't go low enough to make the steels look good.
Thanks
Lee
Thanks
Lee
For me, get it as low as you can! SoLow LOW would be my choice, I just think they look better and better the lower you go!
If the budget allows then go for SoLow AIR and you’ll never be able to park your van without looking back at it again.
on mine. . .
T32 LWB
40mm drop (from standard) on standard OEM Sportline suspension,
18" banded . . . with a heavy load in the back.
Mine are not banded but are 18 inch steels with so low coil overs..
Me again! I've been through this thread front to back and back to front so many times! The steels I've bought have 245/45/18 tyre's but i see a lot of guys on 255/45/18 and other sizes as well. I have gone for STX coil overs so not massively low and I want to loose the arch gap so what we thinking?
Any advice greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Lee
Any advice greatly appriciated.
Thanks
Lee
Lee how low are you on your new coilovers?
Im not yet, plan on fitting them when i get home from offshore, but ill be going as low as i can on the STX.
Cheers Lee
I don’t know anything about the STX and how low they can go at their max, but just to give you a visual example…. this is my van lowered to 80mm…. both sets of wheels are 18”…. the top picture is with 255/45 tyres all round and the bottom picture is with 235/50 tyres all round. Hope this helps?
That’s perfect, my vans silver as well . It looks like your rims are grey in the first picture and black in the second? Do you have any side on pictures of the van with the 235 tyres in?
Thanks Lee
You’re right, they are two different sets of wheels…. it’s just never easy to get any detail in a side on picture with black wheels…. they just look black if you know what I mean? Anyway….
Cheers thats great.
Theres not much in it is there? What was your reasoning for two different sizes of tyres?
Thanks
Lee
Theres not much in it is there? What was your reasoning for two different sizes of tyres?
Thanks
Lee
Yeah there’s not much in it at all…. the sidewall on the 235 is slightly taller, but you’re talking millimetres!
Personally I always thought the 255 looked a little too big on my front banded Amarok’s (8.5” wide), but sat much better on the rears (9.5” wide) with a slight ‘stretch’. That’s why I went down to the 235 on my current setup (9.0” wide).
Hope that helps!
aaaah you're still running Banded Amaroks huh??Yeah there’s not much in it at all…. the sidewall on the 235 is slightly taller, but you’re talking millimetres!
Personally I always thought the 255 looked a little too big on my front banded Amarok’s (8.5” wide), but sat much better on the rears (9.5” wide) with a slight ‘stretch’. That’s why I went down to the 235 on my current setup (9.0” wide).
Hope that helps!
No mate, I’m now running 18” Rotiform STL
They’ve been on for just over a year now fella and it’s what I’m sticking with!nice!
ha, didn't think i'd kept up...
Sorry, I know we‘re in the banded steelies thread but I love those STLs @T6ARF Are they 9” ET30 all round?
@Leemondo12 my van is running STXs and they’re wound all the way down at the front and have adjuster deletes at the back - currently on 19s with 245/45 tyres.
Considering dropping the wheel size to 18” and lifting the front slightly so they’re damping abit more and refitting rear adjusters.
Are they 9” ET30 all round?@Leemondo12 my van is running STXs and they’re wound all the way down at the front and have adjuster deletes at the back - currently on 19s with 245/45 tyres.
Considering dropping the wheel size to 18” and lifting the front slightly so they’re damping abit more and refitting rear adjusters.
