Stance wheel and tire questions.

[aspro]

If youre looking for old school 80's look then you would have to keep the rims small and have a good amount of sidewall on the tire. Don't go higher than 16's. Plus, the yaris drives like crap with bigger heavier wheels. Personally, I'd go 15x8 BBS style rims (kind of like the 80's BMW m3 rims) and slam it, If you're going for a throw back look. In the 80's, 14" and 15" were the norm on almost every car with the exception of a few running 16's.

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by aspro

If youre looking for old school 80's look then you would have to keep the rims small and have a good amount of sidewall on the tire. Don't go higher than 16's. Plus, the yaris drives like crap with bigger heavier wheels. Personally, I'd go 15x8 BBS style rims (kind of like the 80's BMW m3 rims) and slam it, If you're going for a throw back look. In the 80's, 14" and 15" were the norm on almost every car with the exception of a few running 16's.

In my 8 yrs on this forum, this is not the first (and won't be the last) time I've heard the "Yaris drives like shit with bigger than 16s" argument, but my mileage, again, over the last 8 yrs, has shown that not to be true at all.

If we were on a track comparing lap times, sure, maybe. Out in the daily driven world, my car handles insanely good and I can't count the number of compliments I've gotten, many of which where from folks who thought my car came stock with the wheels I have on it. In my opinion, the gains you get in looks from 17s far outweigh the supposed drop in handling (which again, I've never even experienced). Not to mention that my car felt like shit at highways speeds on the stock wheels and sat down big time after installing 17s.

[aspro]

I'm just speaking from experience. I've run 17's, 16's and 15's all on the same car. 17's were horrendous, 16's weren't that bad but I could still feel a loss in power, braking (and these were 'lightweight' 16's).

Everyone's threshold for negative or positive change in the vehicles dynamic is different. We have a difference in opinion - that's all. Doesn't mean I shouldn't give the OP a heads up from my own personal experience.

[ern-diz]

Originally Posted by aspro

I'm just speaking from experience. I've run 17's, 16's and 15's all on the same car. 17's were horrendous, 16's weren't that bad but I could still feel a loss in power, braking (and these were 'lightweight' 16's).

Everyone's threshold for negative or positive change in the vehicles dynamic is different. We have a difference in opinion - that's all. Doesn't mean I shouldn't give the OP a heads up from my own personal experience.

Absolutely, we agree there. No hard feelings or anything personal either, it's all good. I just have a distaste for the many, many comments I've seen over the yrs about how bad the car handles on 17s and I just don't find it to be true on city streets. I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt that the car got infinitely better on 17s than the stock wheels and tires it came with, so I feel like it's all relative. It might gain a little with 15s, but I feel it comes at a significant visual loss, unless you're one of those folks that likes how the car looks on 15s with more rubber showing, in which case, more power to you.