245s.... anyone done it?

[r5gtt]

They're essential on these cars for aggressive driving!

Get those done first, and a Gripper diff 

+1

[pudding]

Diff on public roads is 98.5% waste of time. Great for the 1.5% but a lot of money for those moments.

Lol, so is a GTI. Remind us why you have one again?  Seems like you're anti every mod and people asking questions these days.

[rich83]

Diff on public roads is 98.5% waste of time. Great for the 1.5% but a lot of money for those moments.

Lol, so is a GTI. Remind us why you have one again?  Seems like you're anti every mod and people asking questions these days.

Just the voice of reason mate. I have driven a GTI with a diff and it didn't make me think "ohhh I must spend 2000 quid getting one fitted"

If I was tracking my GTI then it would be a no brainier.

[chigmuss]

Little bit of google...potentially you can go to a max of 245 on an 8" rim. Your options are the 235/40/18 or 245/35/18 both of which give a 1.2% difference in rolling diameter which is liveable with in terms of your speedo, don't know if this would upset the ABS sensors or not. SO you could go 10mm wider on a 235, and 5mm inner/outer increase shouldn't give you rubbing issues. Kinda expensive experiment though.
Thank god stretching ridiculously under sized tyres on 10" wide rims has faded away, they've probably all written off their cars.