Suspension Upgrades

[Phil Rose]

At 3:37 PM -0700 4/15/05, Emy wrote:
>  235/45/17 fills the wheel well
>beautifully!!!

Sorry, but I've never quite understood the significance of that 
commonly made assertion to the effect that some tire and wheel size 
"fills the wheel well beautifully". The 235/45x17   has a tire height 
that is not more than 0.15" larger than the 215/60x15 stock size. So 
overall size cannot account for what is meant by "fills the wheel 
well beautifully". I guess this exuberance must be motivated by the 
sight of that additional alloy? Does this mean that a 20" wheel/tire 
could fill that space even more beautifully (!!!) or is there some 
magic proportion to strive for? ;-)

Phil

P.S. I like the looks of Ingo's car, too.
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Phil Rose
Rochester, NY
mailto:pjrose at frontiernet.net