Wheels

[Ameer Antar]

Definitely check out the tire specs if you can find 'em, but actually, I don't think it's that bad. I was just looking at the min. wheel width for my Goodyear tires, and the ratio is about 68.1% for a 55 series tire. 225 on a 6" wheel is about 67.7%, so I don't think it's really dangerous. I have heard of lot's of people going beyond 70% minimum, even under 60%. That's way over-board, but anything close to 70% should be OK, as evidenced by Goodyear's ratings.

After looking at the Yokohama site, they do say that the smaller the wheel you use, the more comfortable the ride, but you loose cornering ability, steering response, ie. performance. So yes, obviously it's not good to be near the extremes of tire/wheel width ratios, but I don't think it's inherently unsafe. 

Also Audi sold their A4's with 225's on 7" wheels, so 7.5" is for added performance. 

-Ameer

----Original Message----
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:36:58 GMT
From: "l.leung at juno.com" <l.leung at juno.com>
Subject: Re: Wheels
To: bwpearre at alumni.princeton.edu
Cc: quattro at audifans.com
Message-ID: <20041021.093729.518.8088 at webmail13.lax.untd.com>
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6J means 6" width between the beads.

This is NOT a safe combo, although you can see if the tire
is listed as availible on TireRack's website, click on that
particular tire, and then click on the "Specifications" section
for that tire to see if this is a recommended combination (I'm
pretty sure it's not, as I recall, the minimum width for a 
typical street tire of 225 width and 60 series or lower is
around 7.5", competition tires an exception). 

HTH,

LL - NY


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