Like if i want to put bigger tires on a vehicle, can you do that?
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Yes you can, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless it’s an off-road vehicle. Engineers spend a lot of time sizing tires properly for the car. Changing your tire size will affect your speedometer reading, fuel economy, and most importantly, handling. Why are you wanting to do this?
Yes you can, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless it’s an off-road vehicle. Engineers spend a lot of time sizing tires properly for the car. Changing your tire size will affect your speedometer reading, fuel economy, and most importantly, handling. Why are you wanting to do this?
If you have the room in the wheel well yes. Just be aware the speedometer is set up for the factory tire size and depending on how much bigger you go will no longer be accurate unless you have it reset to match the newer larger diameter tires. Best way to accomplish would be take the car to a local shop that specializes in modification and has a high customer satisfaction rating.
Yes you can, but I wouldn’t recommend it unless it’s an off-road vehicle. Engineers spend a lot of time sizing tires properly for the car. Changing your tire size will affect your speedometer reading, fuel economy, and most importantly, handling. Why are you wanting to do this?
If you have the room in the wheel well yes. Just be aware the speedometer is set up for the factory tire size and depending on how much bigger you go will no longer be accurate unless you have it reset to match the newer larger diameter tires. Best way to accomplish would be take the car to a local shop that specializes in modification and has a high customer satisfaction rating.
If you have the room in the wheel well yes. Just be aware the speedometer is set up for the factory tire size and depending on how much bigger you go will no longer be accurate unless you have it reset to match the newer larger diameter tires. Best way to accomplish would be take the car to a local shop that specializes in modification and has a high customer satisfaction rating.
Yes you can.
The wheel rim plus the tyre sidewall is what the speedo is calibrated to.
Rim size is the diameter in inches. The width of the tyre is in mm and the ratio of one to the other is the height of the tyre from road to rim. Simple right? /s
So a 225/50R17 tyre for example has a 17″ diameter wheel rim, with a 225mm width tyre and a sidewall of 50% of that 225mm (or 112.5mm) from road to rim.
If you want bigger rims and keep the speedo semi accurate you have to maintain the circumference to a certain degree.
If the car came with the wheel size as above but you want 19″ rims then the sidewall has to drop to maintain the overall (rim + tyre) circumference.
This site will tell you what size tyres to get for the rims you want based on the size you currently have. https://tiresize.com/calculator/
Yes you can.
The wheel rim plus the tyre sidewall is what the speedo is calibrated to.
Rim size is the diameter in inches. The width of the tyre is in mm and the ratio of one to the other is the height of the tyre from road to rim. Simple right? /s
So a 225/50R17 tyre for example has a 17″ diameter wheel rim, with a 225mm width tyre and a sidewall of 50% of that 225mm (or 112.5mm) from road to rim.
If you want bigger rims and keep the speedo semi accurate you have to maintain the circumference to a certain degree.
If the car came with the wheel size as above but you want 19″ rims then the sidewall has to drop to maintain the overall (rim + tyre) circumference.
This site will tell you what size tyres to get for the rims you want based on the size you currently have. https://tiresize.com/calculator/
Yes you can.
The wheel rim plus the tyre sidewall is what the speedo is calibrated to.
Rim size is the diameter in inches. The width of the tyre is in mm and the ratio of one to the other is the height of the tyre from road to rim. Simple right? /s
So a 225/50R17 tyre for example has a 17″ diameter wheel rim, with a 225mm width tyre and a sidewall of 50% of that 225mm (or 112.5mm) from road to rim.
If you want bigger rims and keep the speedo semi accurate you have to maintain the circumference to a certain degree.
If the car came with the wheel size as above but you want 19″ rims then the sidewall has to drop to maintain the overall (rim + tyre) circumference.
This site will tell you what size tyres to get for the rims you want based on the size you currently have. https://tiresize.com/calculator/
Sure. Just change the gear box and differential to match the new tire size. Those are assembled with specific size in mind, and will not work correctly with the wrong size.
If your car model doesn’t have bigger wheel version. You’ll need to rebuild or make the gear box and differential yourself.
This has been done, by car people… however… no one actually does it.
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