Anybody ever end up putting the new Fit Sport 16" rims on an Insight 2? I know the bolt pattern is the same for both. Visually they seem to me very similar, like siblings, because unlike what an earlier commenter said, they both have 7 hollowed-out spokes. Here's the Fit wheel:
and the Insight's:
I think though that each is sold with the wrong car. The Fit's wheels look too big to me on the Fit and Insight's wheels look too small on the Insight. The Fit Sport's rims are 16"x6" with a 53mm offset and wear a 185/55r16 tire, while the Insight's are 15"x5.5" with a 45mm offset and wear a 175/65r15 tire. When you compare the two tires with an online comparison tool like here:
Wheel / tire size calculator / comparer - WWW.RIMSNTIRES.COM there's virtually no difference to the car as far as wheel circumference. There's less than a twentieth of a percent difference, which means you'll be going 85.1 mph when your speedometer says 85mph, and your car would have traveled an extra 157 miles before your odometer would show 100,000. Supposedly there's an even greater change in a tire's diameter over its life as it's rubber wears away. The real question is, would the Fit's wheels push in too far into the body of the Insight2? As a rim's offset number increases, the effect is to move the wheel towards the center of and under the car. There's an 8mm difference in offset between the Fit's and the Insight's rims, meaning the Fit's rims push the wheel 8mm closer to the center of the car. The Fit's tire is 10mm wider, which adds 5mm to each side. So, in total, 8mm+5mm=13mm closer on the inside, which is roughly 1/2". I assume any problem would show up when turning the front wheels to either extreme. Maybe some type of spacer could be used if there were clearance issues, but maybe there's enough clearance without any spacers. On the outside, the Fit's wheel is pushed in 8mm, but then the tire is 5mm wider on each side, which means (8mm-5mm) the tires stick out less than before by 3mm, or about an 1/8 of an inch. Has anybody tried this? I googled around and haven't seen anybody who's actually done it.
