Rough ride? or pretty close to stock? Looking to buy them soon.

 

They will be a stiffer ride and they will bend more easily.

 

You'll be buying/replacing the wheels about every 3 months due to damage unless the roads you drive on are perfectly maintained. There won't be enough rubber between your wheel and the road for even small pot holes. Your fendor gap will be huge btw, and just about any set of springs will cause your wheels to rub. Don't go any higher than 18's man, its just not worth the effort or expense.

 

Don't post usless information, it does no good and clutters the forum. If you don't like how 19's look fine, but don't say things as if they are solid fact when you have no experience in the topic matter.

Depechek here is what I have learned about using 19's, experiences will vary:
The ride on 19" wheels will be stiffer, that's a kind of a given, but I don't think it is as bad as most people think. The few people who have 19's on the board don't seem to mind it, and most of the rest have never tried it. How they fit and how well they hold up really depends on the quality of the wheel. I don't know where he got the idea it will change fender (not fendor) gap, but it should not change if the wheel is the proper fit for the car. Springs depend on what you go with, but you could probably lower an inch (which is just enough to close the gap between fender and tire) with little to zero rubbing. Basically, just go with what you like and not with what the fashion nazi's want you to like.

My experience with 19 inch wheels reaches back about a year and a half. The roads in Hawaii are some of the worst I've ever seen because the heavy rains out here tear the crap out of them, and the local goverment needs some schooling on basic road construction. I didn't have to get any repair work done until some lady tried to run me off the highway a couple weeks ago. I took them off the car about every other month to clean, inspect, and polish so yeah I kept an eye on them. I have the Eibach Pro-Kit springs on my car and have only heard light rubbing while doing heavy cornering with an incline on Tantalus, which is a twisty mountain road popular with sports cars and drifters out here. My tires are sized 265/30/19 in the rear and 235/35/19 in the front. I had Nitto 555 tires but I am switching to Goodyear Eagle F1's for the improved wet traction. My wheel and tire combo weighs the same as the stock wheel tire combo, I proved that with 2 different scales. A bathroom scale said they were the same and a postal scale said the 19 inch combo was 1 pound heavier. This is because they are forged aluminum and not cheaply made. I tell you this so you know that not all 19 inch wheels are heavy. Physics says you will have a power loss anyways because you have pushed the rotational mass outward, but it isn't noticable to me and probably only equals a fraction of a percent. Have fun shopping and hope you find what you like. Here are some pics of mine if your interested. Despite how the pics might look they are only polished, not chrome.