One of my friends just put stye 32s on his E36 with a stretched 255 tire all around. It fits albeit some rubbing. Other than the fact that it looks funny as hell sticking out like that, is there a safety issue here? I know the 5 series hub is a larger diameter than the 3 series hub, so I am fairly confident that a hubcentric ring is needed to make the car safe. Does anyone even make a ring that large? Or, is just a regular hubcentric ring like the ones I have for my Type IIIs big enough to fill the gap?

They will stick out of the wheel well and they are not hub centric. If you can live with rubbing and a vibration they will work.

Keyword "friend." ;)

Thanks for the reply, Jim. So, it is just gonna be vibration, and not a wheel falling off at high speed? Good to know. As for the sticking out, it looks horrible IMO and so as not to sound racist, I will refrain from example usage. :)

One more question, would a regular hub-centric ring like the ones I use with my ACS Type IIIs solve the vibration problem?

We do have a ring for the wheel at 3.00 each.

i need to fit e36 wheels on my e39

i need to fit e36 wheels on my e39

The E36 hub is smaller. Unless you can find a 20 mm spacer that fits the E39 hub and has a smaller hub to mount the wheel to, you can't do it. I don't know if anyone makes such a thing. I suppose you could use a flat 20 MM spacer, but that doesn't sound too safe. Maybe you can have the hub bored out on the E36 wheel so a regular E39 spacer would fit?

No matter how you look at it, it's going to be hokey. I would sell the wheels and get proper wheels.

The E36 hub is smaller. Unless you can find a 20 mm spacer that fits the E39 hub and has a smaller hub to mount the wheel to, you can't do it. I don't know if anyone makes such a thing. I suppose you could use a flat 20 MM spacer, but that doesn't sound too safe. Maybe you can have the hub bored out on the E36 wheel so a regular E39 spacer would fit?

No matter how you look at it, it's going to be hokey. I would sell the wheels and get proper wheels.

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It can "work" by boring out the E36 hub bore to E39 spec and then running the appropriate size E39 hubcentric spacer and correspoding longer wheel bolts. It's a lot of hassles though, and the spacers are not exactly cheap. You'd also be introducing more chance for vibration, etc.

No it does not work. The wheel does not have enough load capacity for the E39 and boring the wheel out to fit would take even more load capacity out of the wheel.