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To nick a phrase “offset is everything“. Everyone knows wheels make or break a car, you’ve all seen those widedbodied cars only to see the wheel hiding away in the arches destroying the look!

But what exactly is offset? It is simply the distance between the centreline of the wheel to the face of the mounting plate. Easy huh?

This can be a positive or negative number. The lower the figure the further out a wheel will stick and vice versa (also other factors such as wheel width to consider).

Fitting a set of wide, low offset wheels can totally complete the look of a car, but how do you know where you should begin in figuring out your offset?

Luckily there are several offset calculators floating around the net, but I’ve created a more user friendly one which can be found here, wheel offset calculator. It also features a visualisation section to try and help you understand offset further, instead of just being presented a set of numbers. (There are a couple of small bugs to be ironed out on the visual section, but it works well enough!)