Hi Micheal,
Lovely car- well wear.
Definitely think the 18" alloys would be a good choice. Fill out the wheel arches nicely.
Don't think you shoud worry about the small difference the bigger wheels will make to the rolling circumferece.
I've added pics of mine to my garage, check em out. I have 18" alloys, they look great (S-Line has lowered sports suspension) but youo have to be eagle eyed to avoid pot holes.
I too had a passat before my A4, I put 17" alloys on it so I know what it's like to dent and crack them on the 3rd world style Irish roads.
They did set the car off nicely though. I bought them from a guy in Scotland, they are genuine VW alloys designed for the passat 4-Motion. Looking to sell them now - know anyoe who would be interested?
When driving easy (long journey, in steady traffic at 60mph) my one gets up to a 50mpg average. I drove a "fast" 100 mile journey from Wexford to Cork the other day and still averaged over 45mpg!
They say that the cars improve with mileage.
at 80k km, your car is still very fresh, that's only 50k miles!
J
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