Keith Tanner wrote: By that measure, my 17x7s with a 205/40-17 are stretched.
Huh? I'm pretty sure if you lay 9" 6ULs with 225 RS3s on them, the aluminum will not touch the ground.
Keith Tanner wrote: By that measure, my 17x7s with a 205/40-17 are stretched.
Huh? I'm pretty sure if you lay 9" 6ULs with 225 RS3s on them, the aluminum will not touch the ground.
The 225 R888's on my 9's(tissue paper keizers) keep leaking at the rim and debeading....for sure its tough to stack more than 2 up as they ONLY touch wheels and the slightest bump means tires and wheels rolling around the shop.
In reply to kevlarcorolla:
If you buy mounted tires and wheels from Tire Rack, they come strapped with large diameter cardboard rounds between them. They are awesome for stacking tires like that where the rim extends past the tire. They are also awesome for stacking when they don't, prevents letter imprinting from one tire to the next.
As a canuck I can't afford to buy from the tirerack or any other USA anything.....my dollar is worth about .06 cents right now
ProDarwin wrote:Keith Tanner wrote: By that measure, my 17x7s with a 205/40-17 are stretched.Huh? I'm pretty sure if you lay 9" 6ULs with 225 RS3s on them, the aluminum will not touch the ground.
You can say huh if you want, but stop by and I'll demonstrate. I'll also do the same with bone stock MSM wheels (same wheel/tire size), 15x9s with 225 Toyo RRs, Nitto NT-01s or Toyo RA1s and 15x10s with 245/40-15 RC-1s.
It could be that RS3s have rim protectors, which are just lumps of rubber designed to take the brunt of soccer mom parking jobs. I don't know, I don't run RS3s very often.
kevlarcorolla wrote: As a canuck I can't afford to buy from the tirerack or any other USA anything.....my dollar is worth about .06 cents right now
The Canadian moaning about the dollar kicks in at about 85 cents, according to my 15 year study.
Haha,right now I'd be pretty happy if it was 85 cents.
Keith Tanner wrote:ProDarwin wrote:It could be that RS3s have rim protectors, which are just lumps of rubber designed to take the brunt of soccer mom parking jobs. I don't know, I don't run RS3s very often.Keith Tanner wrote: By that measure, my 17x7s with a 205/40-17 are stretched.Huh? I'm pretty sure if you lay 9" 6ULs with 225 RS3s on them, the aluminum will not touch the ground.
Probably the case, they do have them. The only other 225/9 combo I've run is the R1R on the TRM wheels, and it would be close. Might touch the rim, might not. But either of those is going to be way more 'stretched' than a 205/7" combo, so I'm surprised your wheel would still touch.
ProDarwin wrote: Probably the case, they do have them. The only other 225/9 combo I've run is the R1R on the TRM wheels, and it would be close. Might touch the rim, might not. But either of those is going to be way more 'stretched' than a 205/7" combo, so I'm surprised your wheel would still touch.
It depends on the tires, as the sizing isn't all that exact. Some 205s will look super skinny, while others will seem much more meaty. I've seen different tires of supposedly the same width stacked next to each other and had one stack be several inches taller than the other (4 tires in each stack). Even once they were mounted, one set was still wider (and that was the set on narrower wheels!)
Tire sizes, like treadwear ratings, are numbers subject to interpretation by whoever is making the tire...
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