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      10-25-2011, 09:06 PM   #4
LarThaL
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Avant Garde wheels will certainly fit nicely. Your stock wheel are 18x8.5 ET 29 and 18x9.5 ET 23.

I am running the competition wheels with 12mm spacers front and rear, so basically, I am running the equivalent of 19x9 ET 19 in front and 19x10 ET 13 in the rear. The wheel wells are nicely filled out and I have no rubbing issues whatsoever.

Honestly, unless you are going to go with a full custom forged wheel, like HRE, etc, etc, the competition wheels are a great way to go.

I think the ARC wheels will require big spacers in front and they don't have that really nice sculpted concave look.

Personally I couldn't do the Avant Garde thing. It is basically an HRE replica, and I would be bummed about not having the real thing. This is just a quirk of mine, however, with no real rational reason, but to me it's kinda like owning a print instead of the original painting.

From the choices you have listed, I would go with the comp wheels and get some Michelin PS2's or PSS.
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