Lowering 205 XR and wheel size?

[villemil 0]

Hello. I bought my first car today Peugeot 205 XR from 1988

Now I'm planning to lower it a bit and change to some good looking rims.

The question is, what should I do to lower my car and make it a bit stiffer? And how big rims fit good? Not planning to do anything extreme.

[villemil 0]

I like 885 RS Classic wheels (BBS replicas). Those are 7x15" and offset is 20mm. Will those fit without any mods?

[Anthony 1,000]

1 hour ago, villemil said:

I like 885 RS Classic wheels (BBS replicas). Those are 7x15" and offset is 20mm. Will those fit without any mods?

 

I think that you'll really struggle with 7" wide wheels on a base model, especially lowered.  I suspect the offset will cause you problems too without a spacer as that's going to be very close to the rear beam arm and inner arch.

[villemil 0]

1 hour ago, Anthony said:

 

I think that you'll really struggle with 7" wide wheels on a base model, especially lowered.  I suspect the offset will cause you problems too without a spacer as that's going to be very close to the rear beam arm and inner arch.

I can those wheels with spacers that is no problem. But my car is non-GTI version so will that wide wheels even fit? If not, how wide wheels do?

[calvinhorse 870]

I have 14x6 Michelin wheels off a 106 Rallye, they are about as wide as you can go without arch extensions..

 

15” wheels dont look right on a flat arch base model 

[villemil 0]

Yeah I just need to find good looking 14x6 wheels  Any ideas?

[villemil 0]

21 minutes ago, calvinhorse said:

I have 14x6 Michelin wheels off a 106 Rallye, they are about as wide as you can go without arch extensions..

 

15” wheels dont look right on a flat arch base model 

Can you send me a picture of your car with those wheels?

[calvinhorse 870]

This is the only picture I have of it

[xy8 4]

  405MI16    r14 wheels

 

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15x6 et18 wheels , front  tires stick out 10-15 mm , rear inner arches are cut and modified. 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 4, 2018 by xy8

[calvinhorse 870]

Best looking 14x6 is the 106 Rallye 

[villemil 0]

Those look really nice! Just need to find that kind of wheels from Finland.

[Anthony 1,000]

I'm not sure if it was the same in Finland, but here in the UK, Saxo VTR models (and possibly others?) had the same design/size wheel but in black as a spare.... and there's loads of them getting broken for parts and sitting in scrapyards.