Winter tires and wheels (new-be)

[WolfWings]

Oddly, I've had no issues, and I'm dropping significantly more than a half-inch when I swap to the 14" wheels: I run Goodyear TripleTreds on my 15" rims for my 3.5-season tires, 195-60/15's, since when I started using TripleTreds they didn't make anything in the 185-60/15's the car comes with, so I'm going from 24.2" down to 23" but I've never had an issue with ground clearance in winter with how curved the nose is: I just plow through the same either way, but have better grip with the Blizzak's than I did with the TT's.

[MUSKOKA800]

Originally Posted by WolfWings

Oddly, I've had no issues, and I'm dropping significantly more than a half-inch when I swap to the 14" wheels: I run Goodyear TripleTreds on my 15" rims for my 3.5-season tires, 195-60/15's, since when I started using TripleTreds they didn't make anything in the 185-60/15's the car comes with, so I'm going from 24.2" down to 23" but I've never had an issue with ground clearance in winter with how curved the nose is: I just plow through the same either way, but have better grip with the Blizzak's than I did with the TT's.

Perhaps the our sedan rides lower than the LB? It never was equipped with 14's like some LB's were born. Mine is TRD lowered so more drop due to tires isn't good. We had a few major storms here last winter. More than once the front lip was launching snow up and over the car as I drove. And again, snow plow berms are big problem as they block streets and ramps while the clean-up is in progress. They're hard on the lip too.

[WolfWings]

Originally Posted by MUSKOKA800

Perhaps the our sedan rides lower than the LB? It never was equipped with 14's like some LB's were born. Mine is TRD lowered so more drop due to tires isn't good. We had a few major storms here last winter. More than once the front lip was launching snow up and over the car as I drove. And again, snow plow berms are big problem as they block streets and ramps while the clean-up is in progress. They're hard on the lip too.

Well, snow flying over your car isn't a bad thing, but yes, it does definately add a lot of extra load on any kind of trip-lip your car came with. But AFAIK the sedan was available with 14" wheels same as the liftback, it was just rare as hen's teeth. I know they never asked me what model of Yaris I had when I went to buy another steel wheel one time, just asked if I needed the 14" since it'd be a week or so for one to arrive versus the 15" they kept in stock.