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      06-20-2013, 02:57 PM   #1
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Will 16-inch wheels fit on the X1?

As the title says.. Getting ready to put together a winter set as early as now.. I have been researching about it and the internet says that 17 inch wheels are the minimum but I just need to make sure from the real X1 experts.. Let me know..
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      06-24-2013, 04:37 PM   #2
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Don't think it will fit, unless you remove those things behind the brakes (what are they for?)
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      08-10-2015, 11:55 AM   #3
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Bump to this old thread, has anyone ever test-fit 16" wheels over the brakes?
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      08-11-2015, 03:34 AM   #4
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16" wheels must look tiny! I think my 17's are to small. Surely you can pick up a cheap set of 17" BMW wheels..
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      08-28-2015, 10:26 AM   #5
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I had one of the few sets of 16" wheels (mille miglia) that would clear the rotors on my E36 M3 (315mm front, 312mm rear). The xDrive35 rotors are 348/336mm. I'm seeing sizes of 330 or 312 front, 300 rear on the xDrive28 and 312/300 on the sDrive28 (via PelicanParts). So they may fit on some E84s. I would test-fit, but I need a new floor jack
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Just asked a local tire shop, they said 16" wheel will not clear.
However, they also said "anything that is taller or shorter will throw off your 4WD system", referring to my 215/60R16. Given that the actual circumference difference between 225/50R17 and those are about 1%, which I mentioned to them, I don't see how it would influence 4WD.

Basically I think they're making an uneducated guess, so I'm a little doubtful they've actually tried to fit 16" wheels to X1. Will ask my mechanic, I guess.
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      09-08-2015, 10:39 AM   #7
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17's are so cheap, why you want 16's is beyond me.
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      09-08-2015, 11:12 AM   #8
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17's are so cheap, why you want 16's is beyond me.
Because a full set of 17" winter tires will cost around $1000, and I already have a set of good winters from my previous car?
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      09-08-2015, 11:22 AM   #9
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Sell the old ones and pick up a used set of winters on 17's. Done.
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      09-08-2015, 11:24 AM   #10
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17's are so cheap, why you want 16's is beyond me.
As a general rule, looks aside, you want to run the smallest wheels that will fit over the brakes. Less unsprung weight and/or reduced moment of inertia, cheaper wheels, cheaper tires, better ride (tire dependent) etc.

While certainly not for everyone, there are many more reasons to run the smallest wheels possible than there are to not.
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Just asked a local tire shop, they said 16" wheel will not clear.
As posted above, might depend on which size front rotor you have (I think we determined a couple weeks ago that there was a change to larger front rotors at some point). If they're 330s, a 16 is going to be tough, but if they're the 314s (or whatever the smaller one was), you might be OK. E90 328s with a 300mm rotor run 16s easily, and you'd only need 5-8mm of clearance.

I'd search on the E90 forums a bit more for insight.

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However, they also said "anything that is taller or shorter will throw off your 4WD system", referring to my 215/60R16. Given that the actual circumference difference between 225/50R17 and those are about 1%, which I mentioned to them, I don't see how it would influence 4WD.

Basically I think they're making an uneducated guess, so I'm a little doubtful they've actually tried to fit 16" wheels to X1. Will ask my mechanic, I guess.
The shop is wrong. You can run larger or smaller overall diameters front and rear with no affect at all on the AWD system.

More generally, IIRC, BMW's xdrive can also tolerate front/rear diameter differences, which not all systems can. But regardless of that, running the same (larger or smaller) size front and rear is 100% fine.
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Sell the old ones and pick up a used set of winters on 17's. Done.
Why would I want to go through a trouble of finding a buyer for my tires, then looking for another set of used tires with unknown history, if I can fit my tires, which I know are good?
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'Cos they don't fit and unless you're running a MASSIVE profile tyre the ABS and AWD is going to be all fucked up as the running circumference is going to be way off.
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'Cos they don't fit and unless you're running a MASSIVE profile tyre the ABS and AWD is going to be all fucked up as the running circumference is going to be way off.
"'Cos they don't fit" - we don't know that yet, do we? That's exactly the point of this thread.

"running circumference is going to be way off" - I mentioned this above. The circumference (of 225/50R17 vs 215/60R16) is different by about 1", or 1.1%. I don't think this qualifies as a "way off".
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'Cos they don't fit and unless you're running a MASSIVE profile tyre the ABS and AWD is going to be all fucked up as the running circumference is going to be way off.
No, no they aren't. Stop talking out of your ass.

The only "negative" effect would be the speedo being off one way or the other (but who cares, the factory speedo is intentionally inaccurate anyway). His ABS/TC and AWD are 100% fine. All the tires are still the same diameter all around.
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OK fine I should have read other posts. You really wanna run that small a wheel and that much tyre, gonna look freaky, like it's 1981 or something.
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Are you going to swap the tires from the wheels they're on to a set of 16" BMW wheels? Can't you try the wheels you have and go from there or do you know for sure they won't fit (small ID, wrong bolt pattern, etc...)?
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Super necrobumping this to confirm that 16s do fit in the front of non-sport models

....but they don't fit on the rear, or the offset on these is wrong. Either way in the rear I'm hitting the suspension knuckle. Front clears fine though
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16" wheels come standard on non M models.
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Will not fit

Unfortunately 16" will not fit. I have tried.

17" is the minimum! www.wheelsnearme.ca has a good fitment guide for your reference
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