I'm swapping to B5 S4 wheels, they are already wrapped in some 245/40/17, its quite obvious to me that they won't fit without a spacer, at least. Does anyone know if its possible to run this wide, and if so what size wheel spacer would be required. Thanks guys

I run 225 tires up front (the rears clear by a mile w/o spacers). Dollars to donuts those 245 tires will rub with the same spacers. I'd highly recommend something like a 235 or 225 tire instead. I doubt the wheels are wider than 8" so those sizes will fit and really wide tires will tramline like a bitch as well, no fun! BTW, I'm going back to 16" wheels 'cuz 17s ride hard! Get ready Jonathan...

you run really wide wheels/tires and small offsets that kick the track of the car out it can exasperate the situation. My A8s don't do it too much but I had a set of 30et 7.5" wheels that did. I didn't keep them long...

when i was borrowing my brother's b6 a4 for a week, -- thought i had a flat...ooo that wasn't good =p
but now that im running the same tires on my 17's, i definitely experience it myself. its not too annoying unless its a road groove that is really uneven.

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Too much offset ruins everything, particularly on the front end. I just had 17" by 8" wide rims on my 95 wagon and it drove absolutely horrible. Don't know the exact offset but the extra 1" of width was added to the outside of the rim when compared to the 16" by 7" seven spoke Mercedes rims I have been running. The car jumped around on every pot hole &amp; bump just like a car with worn out front end bushings, something I have heard people refer to as scrub bump steer. Basically what your doing is moving your tire's contact patch too far out from the steering axis which gives the bumps &amp; pot holes more leverage to twist the wheel back on contact. Not to mention the extra load &amp; shock on suspension parts and especially the wheel bearings plus the extra offset throws mud all over the side of your car. With the 17" rims my car was absolutely scary driving over R.R. tracks, I took them off after 3 days and made $300 selling them on Craig's list --- GOOD RIDDANCE. ~ John Buchtenkirch

P.S. Sorry for not posting lately, I picked up a 97 super duty Ford with a power stroke diesel and have been working on that like 70 or 80 hours a week for the last 5 weeks so I've been kinda burnt out, the only attention the Audi has gotten has been adding gas.

In italian we call it "to follow the road" more than the steering wheel :)
Next week I'm going to replace the shocks and springs with an apex-koni racing kit ("racing" is only in the name of course).
I'm curious to see if something changes.

With a FWD 2.8 V6, between tramlining and torque steering, I often wonder who is really in charge while I drive... just kidding.