Originally Posted by glt4392
You don't see many people lowering their cars and keeping the stock 15s with /65s on do you? It just does not look right. Also putting too big a profile on big rims takes away from the sporty look or at least the look most go for with low profiles now days. They would just look like a bigger version of the stocks and will actually raise the car if you go too big on the tire profile.
I see quite a few cars in person and on forums rolling on stock size rims. If you think about it, having the stockies with the bigger profile tires enhances the drop because the wheel gap is considerably smaller than the sidewall and takes up less percentage of the distance from the edge of the rim to the fender. With bigger rims and lower profile tires, the wheel gap becomes a greater percentage of that distance, so the drop *looks* smaller when it is more than likely the same. I experienced that when going from my stock 15s to 17s.
Originally Posted by glt4392
Best thing to do is know what you are going for, compare to others to see what they did and what you like in places like
www.cardomain.com and you will make the right choice.
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Originally Posted by skabone69
as for the spedo being a little off a good way to think about it is that the spedo will read that you are going a little faster than what you are really going. the spedo will be off by 1mph, which is not too much of a difference. that's not a bad thing, if anything its a little bit of piece of mind. If you pass a cop on a 65mph speed limit road and your spedo is reading 70 for example, your real speed will be 69 ish so if a cop were to radar you, you would only be going 4 over, and you would most likely be ignored.
I think that statement is backwards, assuming you're talking about stock vs a wheel with a bigger diameter. The larger overall diameter will lead to your speedo reading slower than your actual speed. To move the same distance, a wheel with larger diameter has to rotate less than a wheel with a smaller diameter. Try that tire calculator that I linked to. My new rims with 215/45/17 tires are 24.6 inches in diameter vs 24.2 inches for my stock 195/60/15. My new tire results in a reading that is 1.7% too slow, so my speedo will read 60 when I'm really going 61. If you're talking stock vs smaller diameter, pretend I didn't say anything.