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  1. shellcool
    Hey I'm looking to buy a new set of Ultraleggera's for my aero, all I can find is everyone using 18" x7.5J ET48 I've checked my wheels and they all say ET46, yet I can't find ET46's anywhere online? I can't figure out what exact wheels I've got and how to order these exact wheels, reviews call the wheels on the GT86 Anthracite grey but OZ seem to not sell this colour and call them Graphite Silver instead, is this a match? OZ's site https://www.ozracing.com/uk/alloy-wheels/oz-racing/sport/ultraleggera I think the full name for my wheels would be "18 inch Anthracite grey oz Ultraleggera" https://www.wheelbasealloys.com/alloy-wheels/oz-racing/ultraleggera/graphite/18-inch/toyota/gt86/2012-present For example this site just lists them as Graphite and their site doesn't allow you to choose and Aero if it even makes a difference This site lets me choose between 7.5J and 8J, assuming mine are 8J (EDIT MINE ARE 7.5J!!) https://www.lkperformance.co.uk/wheels/oz-racing/12292-ultraleggera-matt-graphite-silver?vehicle=1546&rim_size=18 Secondly I can't seem to find any "ET46" only ET48's I think the car needs ET44 anyway, the wheels need to be pushed out a bit IMO, stock Aero, surely buying 48's would be risky Any advice would be great and if anyone is selling a set in good nick hit me up, I'm also willing to sell my set now or at a later date, ones buckled (quite bad lol)
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    I poped into a local shop, they have a place they send wheels too for £60 each (did sound too cheap), they take the wheel to the place, the place either say it's worth trying or not and you pay after, he did warn me that OZ's are the worst offender for being rejected an attempted repair due to the risk of breaking, the guy at the shop isn't the guy that repairs them or even sees the guy that repairs them, but he said it looked like it had a chance of being repaired lol. However, he did give the Advice of putting the repaired wheels on the back to reduce loads, if they get repaired. (cornering I guess) but yea, If it gets repaired that's great, if not, I'll probably ask the wheel shop guys about recommendations, he did seem sceptical about 18x8 ET35 fitting inside, but they don't do the colour I want in ET35 anyway, so It might end up with a set of 48's and a decent brand of 5mm spacers, or I buy a set of ET35's in the wrong colour and get them painted IDK
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    Sorry if I put the two good 18" 7.5J ET46 on the front and two new 18" 8.0J ET48 on the rear? Would that make more sense, sorry Im sturggling to think at the moment
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    Yea, I'm thinking et35, 8.0 on back, keep the two ET46 7.5 on the front? Yea I'd just get all 4 painted potentially, that's not too much of an issue I just Wana get wheels on the car lol
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    Ahhh, so I'll look for crashed cars/breaking cars and have a look then, I've got until summer starts seems horrible of Toyota to pull that one on us NGL do you think putting two good 46's on the front and buying two new 48's for the back would be a BAD idea or just "meh"? as a get out of jail free/easy method of getting around this
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    Thinking about it maybe getting two 48's shoving them on the back, and put the best two 46's on the fronts I've been trying to find any Aero's that came with ET46's I need to start a new thread just begging all Aero with OZ owners to check their ET's for me lol I honestly can't find a single 18 inch OZ Ultraleggera with a ET46 offset, My car was a review car so I'm starting to think they are like a "pre-final choice" offset on my car only lol.
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    Thank you so much for the explanation, I was a bit confused between negative and positive "ET", I'll just see what happens and I'll have to decide if I want to buy 48's + 2mm spacers to keep it 46 like Toyota put, or maybe I'll look into getting bigger spacers like 5mm after I read some in-depth stuff on if it's a bad thing to do, but spacers make it easily changeable, which I like the idea of I feel like I'm leaning more towards 48's with 2mm spacers, this seems like the easiest way to keep the car having parts that are easier to get ahold of and how it came out the factory, I'm going to assume there's no difference between having a ET46 wheel and a ET48 + 2mm spacer, thanks for the help, I didn't want to adjust the car much atall
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    "Offset in simple terms is how far the wheel sits in the arch. A lower offset (+35) will sit out further than a higher offset (+46). " This makes sense for a negative offset car? mine seems positive offset so mines reversed? Smaller number = wheel coming closer to car? ATM mine is a ET46, so if I go to ET48 the wheels get 2mm more into the car, I think?
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    do you think this colour matches more? problem is i can only select 48 offset not 35? 😕
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    Hello lads thank you for the replys! I'll look into the cost of repair for the wheel that's damaged + maybe looking at the other ones see if they could do with a repair too, this wouldn't be high on my priority list though as i'd probably feel better getting a new set. I'll look into to either asking Toyota for 2 wheels, I'll compare the price of these two from Toyota to a brand new set of 4. If that's not possible I would be buying a brand new set of 4 from a good seller, hopefully, they are a very similar colour, if not I'll just get them powder coated or whatever they do to match the originals and then selling my 3 good + one bad My Aero is one of the 64 plates, so had OZ's from factory If I can't get two from Toyota I'd get a new set of 4 for sure, putting spacers on one side would make it feel like a bad job XD I'd never live with that, If the colour doesn't match to originals even if I get all 4, hell I'd happily get them coated lol, I had the exact spec as my background on my PC for 3 years before I got it big fanboy of my own car before i owned it XD I didn't even think of Demon tweeks, I'd feel so safe going with them What does the "offset 35" mean? is that similar to "ET46"? I'd need to source two from Toyota for under £1300 minus the price I get for my 3 good wheels and 1 bad wheel selling to someone, so probably doable lol The company called LK performance said (for a gt86 (not aero exactly)) "18x7.5 ET48 standard according to our systems, so 18x8 ET48 will extend 6mm more outward" I trust their math is correct with the 6mm, and I think that'd look okay as long as it was legal?
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    I've managed to damage my fender quite bad and looking for one on sale to just bolt-on, also any advise on bumper paint repair for an AERO spec would be helpful, pictures if needed i suppose I'm in the west midlands on the outskirts of Birmingham if that helps
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