Brother was smart and bought himself a 2009 P71. From Yellowstone National Park. He's looking for wheels. I looked around here (Chicagoland.) I found these on Milwaukee Craigslist.
18x8 Sport Edition with BFG Comp 2 tires
This is the ad description :
Black painted sport edition wheels and tires are from a 2015 Mustang
Tires are P255/45R18 BF Goodrich G-force comp2
2 tires have 5/32 left
2 tires have 6/32 left
TPMS sensors installed
bolt pattern is 5 x 4.5 (5 x 114.3)
wheel dimensions are 18 x 8
Sensors will link to 2015 and older ford products
Wheels are in perfect conditon, no scratches or curb rash
Asking $500
Will a wheel that fits a 2015 Mustang fit the Vic? Tire Rack site has 18x8 wheels with an offset ranging from +38 to +48 fitting. I'll try to contact the seller asking for an offset, but I'm not expecting miracles.
Also, is this even worth it?
IIRC, it's S197 wheels that fit 05+ CV's perfectly. These are S550.
Different offset? Wrong bore size? Different wheel stud size? Found a few on CV.net running 15 and up wheels.
Unless something massively changed (which I'm pretty sure it didn't) P71 wheels are much closer to zero offset. I recall ET+6 being common and most aftermarket choices were zero.
Those look like very high offset.
Measure what he has on the car stock.
Both the Mustang and the Crown Vic will have 70.6mm centerbores, but I'm certain those aftermarket wheels will have much larger bores for a universal fit.
In reply to Curtis73 :
79-02 Panther chassis use the near-zero offset wheels.
03+ had a redesigned suspension and used modern high-offset wheels.
Tire rack had 18x8 size, same as the ones in question, fitting with offsets ranging from +38 to +48. That's a pretty wide range. Waiting on a reply from the seller on the wheel's offset. That will help determine things a bit better.
Javelin said:
In reply to Curtis73 :
79-02 Panther chassis use the near-zero offset wheels.
03+ had a redesigned suspension and used modern high-offset wheels.
Ah. I knew there was a suspension change in there somewhere, just didn't know it included an offset change.
Should be alright on an 03+ car. As they are generic wheels, a set of hub-centric rings may be required but those are cheap.
This is the best resource I found when I was looking for wheels to fit my P71.
https://www.crownvic.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1061930