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Firstly, to the people that couldn't make today, I hope everything works out ok. We met at McD's, that is Ian in his Honda and Ian in his Honda - it was going to be one of those days, Martyn and Sue, Andrew and Clare, Matt and us. Paul came in his GT86 and the very cute mini cake muncher came too, namely Charlotte. The 'power shot' 2 Honda's and a V8 But the Fords look the best, well I might be biased here! After a quick brew we went the whole 2 miles to GBS and parked up The Honda boys, the two Ian's, well they have a lot to smile about don't they? Martyn, well trained, cleaning his windows. Note Ian's VX in the background. Martyn, I am still laughing, visualising your french student who is living in the North East of England, Bonjour Pet! Let the cake munching begin. I had the Victoria Sponge, the fruity cake at the back and one of the eggy chocolatey buns, all homemade by the lovely GBS ladies. More and more cars turned up, and people too, BugMan Steve, Barry and Andrew, Ian and Rosie and Johnno. It got really busy and it was great, I was glad we went but we had to leave early as we had a holiday to go on. But we will be home next Saturday and hope to be out on Easter Sunday or Bank Holiday Monday, depending on the weather, it is a bit scary that the Malton Big Breakfast is cancelled, just how much snow is on our way? Note the drone in this photo Thank you to everyone for coming along today.

...... I've seen that at a club meet and it's a lovely car

Hi Andy Welcome on board , As it turns out I'm your area organiser, you live within a mile as the crow flies, We meet at the Tudor Rose pub, at Two mills, on the first Tuesday of the month at 8-8.30pm, let me have your mobile number and ill add you to the text list for runs out meetings etc....would be great to see you at the meetings.... Cheers Mark 07703230241

WW., looking at your photo of your front wheel, unless I'm very much mistaken, you've got the Westfield cast alluminium hubs. So if it is a Ford based car with 7" wide rims, it should be fitted with 23 or 24mm. et wheels, without spacers. The earlier cars, with the Ford hubs I think had more offset, 35mm. sticks in my mind. However, to complicate it, Mazda sdv cars use different again offset, I think 38mm.? and S2000 based cars different again! Then factor into all this that many cars are running with spacers to enable them to run on wheels with the "wrong" offset, and you can see why there really is no substitute to measuring, or if you have a wheel which you are thinking of buying, then try it first (front and back preferably) to check that you don't have clearance issues.

I'm afraid it does. What complicate matters, and is why people keep giving you links to charts, is that it's impossible to give a yes/no answer. Westfield continually develop/alter the chassis, this means there are a lot of different offset combinations that have been used over the years, and I'm not sure if anyone, has definitive itive records of exactly what is used on which chassis number. In addition to that different bodywork styles such as FW and ZK use slightly different rear offsets, for the slightly different wheel arch shapes and widths. Plus later 2000's suspension has slightly different bolt arrangements on the uprights, that will fouls certain offsets, where as earlier cars with different fixings will accept a deeper offset before fouling. Its the biggest ownership can of worms there is, I'm afraid. The only way to be sure, is to measure what you have, and plug the figures into those tables, to work out how a different size or offset will affect you. Or, borrow wheels and test fit. (But if doing that, be very careful, cause thanks to things like those bolt issues, it's easy to gouge the back of a miss matched wheel).

Could be. Mine are 195/50 tyres. I think the s2000 cars also run a deeper front offset. Will take a pic tomorrow.

So looking at that pic above to fit the ET35 wheels on the front of your car you would need to put massive spacers on,circa 20mm to stop the tyre touching your cycle wing bracket,or modify your cycle wing bracket

Agreed! That’s excellent news, too!

If you've got atleast 15mm clearance now to anything inwards,wishbones etc you would be OK. Bare in mind the wheel will sit 12mm further inside the arch,so might not look as good in the arch. Front arches are more of a issue than rear

Put you old wheels on and measure inwards another 12mm and see if anything fouls. The larger offset will move the whole wheel inboard, so you will have more arch clearance than now not less.

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My SEW with a live rear axle has 15 " wheels with ET35 no probs with clearance in fact I have got spacers on to make the wheels fill the arch better.

Can't wait to get home

Yes they are Cortina uprights.

Get yer bike out and strap it on yer back