honestly, this topic bores me to death. There's at least 5 members on this forum running style 5's on their ti's. I've been running e39 wheels on my e36's since e39's first came out. It's the same story whether you're running style 5's, style 19's, style 32's, style 42's yada yada yada. The wheels are 17x8 et20. They have a center bore of 74.1mm. Yes you need to run a 215/40/17 tire or smaller. Yes you need to run hubcentric rings. Yes you need to roll your rear fenders. If you run your rear at stock ride height with stretched skinny tires, your car is going to look retarded because of the wheel gap. All BMW's after the e30 were 5x120 bolt patern. Myself, Wolferj, Bobbak, Philly, 3.2TI, Marcus2116, FMD, Angel318ti and probably many other either have run or are running e39 style 5's on our cars. There's many others running e39 wheels with the same specs on their ti's. I admit the search feature on this forum isn't the greatest. But if you'd spend a little time searching, I'm sure every question you have has been answered atleast a dozen times. Pics can be found in the photo gallery, as well as the "wheels on cars" thread. If you want to see about a hundred different e36's with e39 style 5's, check out bimmerforums.com's "rides and styling" section. I get about 2 or 3 PM's a week from people asking me about wheel fitment. Most of them don't even end up running any of the wheels they ask me about. My advice is usually to wait until you get a car and figure out what suspension setup you're going to run. Then figure out which wheels you want, then figure out which tires you need to make those wheels fit. Otherwise, JUST BUY WHEELS THAT WERE MADE FOR THE E36. I don't know why people are so afraid to roll fenders. The answers are out there, you just have to look.
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