Should I buy new wheels as well?

[sh0rtlife]

Originally Posted by Compeer

15" tires are quite a lot cheaper and lighter than 16" tho and give you little bit lower gear ratio. Tire prices and the fact that every tire shop stocks the 15's and not the 16's sells it for me. I used to run 16's on my old Lantis type R and the 16's were more expensive then the 17's in same tire.

Those wheels do look fire tho.

wrong...also weirdly enough...assuming you have various wheels you can often go up a wheel size and save a few bucks on rubber just because its a more popular size so its cheeper.....its one of the reasons im on 195s and not 205s the 205s jump the price 50$ a tire, unless i went to a 15 and then they would be 10$ cheeper a tire in a 205...the 205/50/15 is VERY common around the world thus making it cheeper..where the 196/60/14 is also common its just becomeing "less" common in "cheep" tires..when you get into performance based rubber, they are both very similaryly popular due to vintage cars


13, 14, 15, 16, 17..makes no differance on "gear ratio" and neither does 175, 185, 195, 205 etc

its all about the middle number IE 195/"60"/14..60% of the width"195" is the total height of the tire..thats why the middle number is called the aspect ratio
195/60/14=23.2
175/70/14=23.6
225/45/15=23......way wide but still the same ratio
195/55/15=23.4
295/35/15.....10 inches wide but still the right height for the ratio LOL
205/45/16=23.3
196/40/17=23.1


i could go on and on...
https://tiresize.com/calculator/