Hey folks!

I have been looking *drooling* on wheels now for a few days, and I want to end up with something that makes me happy.

I do NOT want a wheel that sticks out (meaning sticks out beyond the flairs. I have found the Helo black's in a 20X10 with a -12mm Offset. Trouble is, I have not a clue what offset I need to be looking for. Any ideas?

Here are the stock sizes...Wheel size 17x8.5
Wheel offset +18mm / 5.5" rear spacing. Do I need to match the offset with aftermarket 20's...and if I go 20, the wheel is 2 inches wider...acks...wtf Let me know what you all did...and toss a pic up.

Hey folks!

I have been looking *drooling* on wheels now for a few days, and I want to end up with something that makes me happy.

I do NOT want a wheel that sticks out (meaning sticks out beyond the flairs. I have found the Helo black's in a 20X10 with a -12mm Offset. Trouble is, I have not a clue what offset I need to be looking for. Any ideas?

Here are the stock sizes...Wheel size 17x8.5
Wheel offset +18mm / 5.5" rear spacing. Do I need to match the offset with aftermarket 20's...and if I go 20, the wheel is 2 inches wider...acks...wtf Let me know what you all did...and toss a pic up.

this is cool.

http://www.barretire.com/wheel%20offset.htm

Helped me understand what offset was better.

anyone...anyone...

I would think that if you ran a 10 inch wide wheel with enough backspacing to keep it from sticking out, you'd get some rubbing on the steering components.

whats the offset on your wheels?

OIC...

I have never really put too much thought into it before, and I am pretty anal with the way I would like to have it. I suppose I can toss some bigger flairs on it if I need to. I see rodster did something like that.

maybe I will end up sticking with a damn 17 and some other tires. I just like the look and feel of slightly larger rims. (18"-20")

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whats the offset on your wheels? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

4.5" if I remember correctly.

thanks TX!

Anyone want to post some pics of their aftermarket wheels...please do! I am more confused than when I started.

Nice shot, Phil. 15.50 is a w-i-i-i-de tire.

My tire/wheel combo along with the wide flares is a perfect fit (and that was lucky 'cause I sure didn't plan it that way). Flares and tire outboard edges are nearly identical.

37x13.50x18 tire on 18x9.5 rim with 4.25" backspace, -24 offset.

Here's a pic taken before the fender flares, which shows how much the tires stick out.

wow guys, this is exactly the info I have been looking for. I am pretty visual type of guy! Keep 'em coming.

right now - these two are my fav's. These just looks kinda weird with that BIG hub cover.

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right now - these two are my fav's. These just looks kinda weird with that BIG hub cover. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I hear you on the BIG hub cover. When my new wheels arrived and I saw the caps I thought, whoa, we have smaller cereal bowls in the house! But once mounted, they're proportionate to the wheel/tire size and look okay. The size of the cap on the black and chrome wheel you posted likely looks bigger because the top is chrome. But I still imagine once you mount a tire it'll look right.

Shopping for tires and wheels is a mind bender (or at least it was for me). Offset, backspace, rim width and diameter coupled with some tires are sized in metric, some in non-metric . . . bah! Add to that the fact that not all tires come in sizes to fit all wheels and the whole thing gets pretty confusing real fast.

You might consider choosing your top two rims and your top two tires. Then see which combinations between them are possible. Could be that exercise will make your decision for you.

I've saved quite a few rim and tire pics to see what I think, IMO, looks the best. I've come to the conclusion that I'm going with 20x10" with 37x13.50's. 22's look sweet but I'm afraid of rim damage if I decide to go wheeling or run over a curb. I don't want to have to worry about that. I figure with 37's on 20's you have the same amount of sidewall as you do on a stock rim and tire.

37" Nitto Mud Grapplers on 20" Lexani's.

Same rim but 3pc and in black. My personal fav right now.

Asanti rim. Picture shows 5 lug but they do make an 8 lug for the H2.

USA Forged Patriot in black chrome

I can't remember if this one was gunmetal or black chrome.

Boze Stinger rim

Milano rim

USA Forged Havoc

Akuza Rigid - I like the look of this one as well.

That USA Havoc is a dead knock-off of the Weld Velociti (what I have).

Stomp, you still have the pics I sent you of how much my tires stick out (37x13.5 on 18x10 wheels), right?

TX - no I don't still have them. I have a dead link that goes no place on blades.

Thanks for the pics guys! Keep 'em coming. I love the look of the 20's...but I am trying to talk myself down to 18's.

damn...funny when tires are more than the rims!

Go with the 20's. Youll be happy with the look. I have Kaotik nt-1(20x10) and procomp xtreme all terrain 35x13.50 and i think it looks very nice---the rims have a negative offset which makes them stick out and the tires are wide for 35's so it gives a much more aggressive stance IMO.

I still think these are one of the coolest out there. Black Chromed of course...

can you use stock H2 caps with those ya think?

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can you use stock H2 caps with those ya think? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

I let you know when I test them. I sent my OEM's to be black chromed as well, so I only have the ones that came with these. I'm positive though since it looks like they will be ok. I'd like to use the OEM's because they have the HUMMER written on them.

What size did you go with? I bet that will look great!

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What size did you go with? I bet that will look great! </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

These are 22". The thing is, that they look really awesome with limited edition BFG's.





I just got the tires too. And they are really bad ass...

Did you buy them already? whoa...22" might be too big for what I am thinking about...I thought they might be 20s. Are you getting them from the site/Jason?

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Did you buy them already? whoa...22" might be too big for what I am thinking about...I thought they might be 20s. Are you getting them from the site/Jason? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>

No, I got the wheels at eBay, tires at Discount tire. Black chroming was done by a shop in California. Yes, I do have everything. I was going get 20's before, but I saw a one with 22" and it wasn't that bad. These tires 37" tall so they actually have more rubber around the wheel that what you usually see (hope they don't rub too much) and they really look awesome. I like a good combination of big wheels and big tires. Altough, we have to have the tire inside the fenders, these might stick out a bit, but hopefully not so much that cops will pay any attention to it. Wheels have 5" backspacing (5.5" OEM) and the tire is 335, when OEM is 315, so I'm calculating that these will be around 1 1/4" more out than stock, which should be ok.