Understand wheel offset once and for all. Learn all the specifics of positive and negative offset, track width and scrub radius and how they affect the handling of your FWD or RWD car. - Honda ...

And a wheel with a negative offset has a hub mounting surface that is on the suspension side of the wheel's centerline. If the offset is not correct for the vehicle in question problems will almost ...

Most stock wheels have a positive offset. When you go to a larger tire, the wheel backspacing needs to change so that the bigger tire won't contact the aforementioned items.