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[nukezero]

Can you put stock OEM 18" front wheels to the rear of a e92?

put a 18x8.0 to the rear taht is designed for 18x8.5?

what about putting 18x8.5 in the front?


i am looking to buy a spare oem 18" bmw wheel for me e92 and wondering which wheel i should buy that would fit both the front and the rear should i get a blow out.

thanks

[TheAcAvenger]

I can't really imagine a scenario when you'd need a new WHEEL. If you're planning on lugging around a full size oem 18" in your trunk, wrapped in a tire, then I'd go with a front (8.0 in a 225). You'll feel a lot more comfortable driving around with matched fronts and mismatched rears than vice versa.

If you want to go overboard, you could just buy 3 new wheels, all 8.5s (I run 8.5s up front right now in a 235 tire, although an original front sized-225 tire will fit no problem), sell your OEM fronts, run a square setup and have a legitimate full size spare. You'd be able to replace the blown at your leisure. Non-staggered high end cars come this way.

But speaking from experience, if you choose to keep the runflats, they really do do their job. They don't catastrophically "blow out", but if you puncture one, you can get wherever you're going. I actually had a puncture on a saturday, drove 15 miles home, left the car on a jack for the weekend, filled the tire to 40 psi, and got to the dealer at 0 psi for a swap.

I don't have the runflats anymore (the bridgestones are just disturbingly hard if you're using them with an already tighter aftermarket suspension), so I carry around the patch kit.

But you do have a lot of options. Good luck

[remmib]

If you only need it as a spare, then you don't even need a 18" wheel, you can get a OEM 17x8" wheel.