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Originally Posted by FAME2002
I have absolutley no sterring wheel shake at all even at 100mph, Im sure this is de to the fact that we had custom billet spacers made for the car, as regular spacers make the wheel shake badly so this may be why I have such a better ride than alot of you with 22"s. But the only thing I notice with my 22"s is when I hit a reflector or somethng like that I feel it maybe slightly more but thats it.
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Fame I had no intention in making you feel as if you were misleading people. I was only relaying my own experience after reading all the positive feedback from 22" Wheel ride quality posts. Again this is my own opinion, I DO feel much difference.
If your wheel shop or custom shop mounted spacers on your wheels/tires, I would avoid them completely. A proper wheel and tire combo needs no 'finesse' to work. They should fit the car without spacers and without modifying the suspension in my opinion. If you were to take a poll of the users with 22" Wheels here you would find not many are using spacers except those whom purchased the wrong offset or extreme widths such as GSHUG's 10" width. Wheels and tires should be chosen with the proper offset.
It surprises me after all the negative experiences you had with your 300c, you would allow such a shop to modify your vehicle. A shop that needs to use custom spacers to fit wheels and tires on a vehicle is either hiding the fact that they ordered the wrong offset, or simply are unaware of what they are doing. Gshug's car is running a 10" wide wheel and requires such an offset/spacer. Your wheels and tires don't have such an extreme width and should not require spacers to correct offset. If this is the same shop that insists they have no problems mounting up a 23" or 24" wheel to the 300c without A-Arm modification I would be VERY cautious.
The feeling you are describing when hitting something as SMALL as a reflector is exactly what I am trying to convey to people whom have not ridden in a 300c with 22"s. A reflector is not supposed to jerk your wheel so violently.
Either way your car looks great and I have NOT rode in it. I guess readers of this thread will be able to decide for themselves. I will gladly provide video footage of steering kick on my wheels. If anyone is interested I will have a friend grab some footage of the kick on a bump Im familiar with.
