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      12-04-2012, 05:53 PM   #4
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Originally Posted by Ilia@IND View Post
The thought here is that while a chassis is new and few people have experimented with wheel sizing, knowing which sizes work and provide a great look gives a wheel manufacturer a competitive advantage. The manufacturer that can provide you a great look, fit, and tire size recommendation has knowledge that others don't.

This is an especially large factor with more expensive and rare cars. Because getting an SLR McLaren is costly and difficult, for example, the wheel manufacturer that has good sizes in their database has a legitimate advantage over their competition who might not know where to begin with a wheel order.

At IND our view is that sharing any and all available data is always beneficial not only to the consumer, but to the performance parts industry as a whole. Keeping wheel sizing a secret slows down development, and ultimately simply delays forward progress.

That is why we have openly discussed offsets and tire sizing in each thread displaying one of our own or our client's project cars, along with any other details of note. The more the community knows, the more quickly we'll all see better parts and better cars as a result.
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