widening steel rims

[mercutio]

how legal is this
is it at all legal if it isn't is it easy enough to get it done am thinking of getting my spare set of 16" rims widened and if i have to will use them for off road only

[coxsy]

a old song, had it done on my rims of the mach 1 15x6 to 15x8 , they cut your centres out and refit them to new rims easy stuff

[Sadam_Husain]

Why do you want to widen them, the wider they are the less the beads seal and the easier it is to pop the beads on the tyres as in the sample photo below

If you want to get the rims sticking out further to increase the track you can have the centres cut out of the rims and shifted

[nstg8a]

a old song had it done on my rime of the mach 1 15x6 to 15x8 , they cut your centres out and refit them to new rims easy stuff

sometimes they cut the rim and insert a steel band into it. i had some sigma steelies that were widened this way.

[coxsy]

the cut and insert was done on the rims of my wifes 66 notchback , then chromed , they rusted out

[86-surf]

33x12.5s wont fit on standard 5 or 6'' rims.... I cant remember what width they were.

[Taz]

a old song had it done on my rime of the mach 1 15x6 to 15x8 , they cut your centres out and refit them to new rims easy stuff

sometimes they cut the rim and insert a steel band into it. i had some sigma steelies that were widened this way.

Car of the year in 1987!

[De-Ranged]

legally you are allowed to move the center even add expansion strips
The requirement for cert is that they are done by a professional welder in a place of buisiness that speciallises in this sort of thing & it is a visual inspection of the welds
In reality unless the welder is known by the certifier, more often than not they will specifiy a welding ticket, the one commonly asked for is 4711 for some strange reason
A common one I get asked for if your changing the offset is to flip the rim so the flat side with the nasty beadlock is on the outside.... this is a good way of stopping them getting pushed off, but if you do this make certain that there is going to be enough room to clear the callipers
Another issue is the more offset you put in the greater the scrub radius on the front steering (how much the tire swings forward and back) this can effect manual steering and can also hit gards

[mercutio]

Why do you want to widen them, the wider they are the less the beads seal and the easier it is to pop the beads on the tyres as in the sample photo below

makes it easier to fit 33"s on a rim wider than 5.5"s

[safari_mulisha]

why cant you redrill a wider set of rims? or weld your center into some 8 inch wide mangels