Planning on switching to a square setup and I've got questions

[Whitest Russian]

Like the titles says I plan on switching my car to a square setup whenever I change my tires in the next ~3k miles and I have some questions since I don't know much about this topic. I plan on using the stock wheels that the car has for now.

• Do I have to make any suspensions changes switching from staggered to square (or going the other way)?
• Is there an optimal tire width? I've seen people do 275 and 285 on the forums frequently, I'm assuming there isn't much difference between the two.
• Would I need to add a spacers in the front if the tires are wide enough?
• Is there anything else I should be aware of?

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[shogun32]

please read the 20+ other threads that have already extensively answered all your questions.
But to be less of an obnoxious prick:

• no
• use the tirerack fitment guidelines for the tire of choice
• it's not the tires stupid, it's the wheel ET
• how to speed-read 1000 pages of valuable information and use the forum search function - you've been on the forum 6 months, plenty of time to have read everything that has been said

 

[Farkel]

Alex, you say you want to keep your stock wheels and run a squared setup. Those two things are contradictory. Squared requires the same wheel, with the same offset, on all four corners.

 

[Whitest Russian]

Alex, you say you want to keep your stock wheels and run a squared setup. Those two things are contradictory. Squared requires the same wheel, with the same offset, on all four corners.

Are all 4 wheels not 19x10?

 

[EFI]

Are all 4 wheels not 19x10?

No, fronts are 19x9 and rears are 19x9.5

 

[Whitest Russian]

No, fronts are 19x9 and rears are 19x9.5

Well that's $1k more I need to spend I guess.

Thanks for the help.

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