Tire Questions

As most of you know, it's becoming harder and harder to find 15" tires that are anything other than all-season, low noise, low grip tires. I have a set of 15" wheels on my project Volvo 242 that I want to keep for awhile, but they need tires. What would you all recommend for a decent, performance oriented tire in a 205/60-15 size? (I know I can get Azenis in a 205/50, but stock size is a 195/70-14 and the tires on my wheels right now are a 195/60-15, so dropping down to a 205/50 would be a HUGE diameter change.)

Thanks in advance, fellow car nerds!

-Ben

I was about to argue with you about 15" availability, but the 205/60-15 does seem to be a different story...

At the far other end of the spectrum from all-seasons, Tire Rack's got Yokohama Advan A048s in that size :)

Yea, 205/60 is a strange size, I wound up losing the extra half inch in height for much wider availability going to 205/50 instead.

Being a 1" difference from 195/60 to 205/50 .. I don't know if I'd call it huge, I guess that depends on how low you sit already.

I have star specs on the e30's 15s for street driving. And Alimax Arctics for the winter.

Well other than the Yokohama ADVAN A048 in that size on tire Rack, it's all junk tires if you care about performance...

If you went with 17" wheels and 205/45-17 tires they would be righ around the correct diameter, weigh the same, and you would have tons of high performance tires to choose from... just a thought.

There's also 225/50-15 tires...~23.7" diameter. Mainly specced in track tires though...

There is also the maxxis and rs4 available in 245/45/15.

Revs per mile. find something close.

A 1" smaller diameter tire will lower the car 1/2".

I'm in a similar sitch now. E36 with 195/60/15 stock wheels. It's for HPDE so I don't seem to have any choice other than make the 50 aspect tires work.

195/55/15 opens up some choices for you