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I have a set of 7" Allycats which I want to put on my car.
Am looking to put 185 or 195 width tyres on. Does anyone have any idea if a 185 will be stretched too much over a 7"?
Ideally I would like to use 185 on the fronts and 195 on the back, but if 185 will give too hard a ride because they are stretched then I should go 195 all around (if they fit under the arches).
Cheers
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2009 8:53:46 GMT by cobblers
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stretch is like soo last year..... lol
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I reckon that a 185 on a 7"should be fine...very little stretch, if any. Here's some 185/60 on a 7x13:    None of those look like they're going to be detrimental to ride quality to me! |
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CIH
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stretch is like soo last year..... lol good |
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stueyt
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stretch is like soo last year..... lol Never did get the idea/point of that. Cheers, Stu. |
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stealthstylz
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Are they 13s? If so you'll either have to go with 185s all round or 195's all round - the reason is because the smallest 185 you can get is a 185/55, and the only 195 tyre in 13" is 195/45. Hence if you put 185/55 on the front and 195/45 on the rear the rear tyre will be a lot smaller in diameter so will look daft.
Matt
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Apr 21, 2009 10:53:42 GMT
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Are they 13s? If so you'll either have to go with 185s all round or 195's all round - the reason is because the smallest 185 you can get is a 185/55, and the only 195 tyre in 13" is 195/45. Hence if you put 185/55 on the front and 195/45 on the rear the rear tyre will be a lot smaller in diameter so will look daft. Matt Can you not get 195/55 R13s any more? They were standard fit on R5GTTs IIRC. EDIT: Mytyres throws up a 195/55. |
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Last Edit: Apr 21, 2009 10:54:43 GMT by Adam
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stealthstylz
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Apr 21, 2009 11:09:13 GMT
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Oh I thought they'd been discontinued. Might be OK then.
Matt
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Loxlee
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Apr 21, 2009 11:37:45 GMT
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a uniroyal rallye 340 and a semperit sport life are the tyres they do in that size, anybody ever used them? ive never heard of semperit
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Apr 21, 2009 11:42:13 GMT
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ive heard of em... sound like cheapo rubber to me
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Apr 21, 2009 11:45:21 GMT
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Semperit are continentals "cheap" brand, decent enough tbh.
Uniroyal are also supposed to be quite decent.
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Apr 21, 2009 15:00:11 GMT
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They are indeed 13" rims, sorry forgot to mention that.
185/60's seem to be about right I think. This will give only a 4% drop in rolling circumfurance from the 175/70 on there at the moment, and not risk taking anything away from the handling by adding too much width.
Not going for the stretched look, purely because they sound a bit dangerous for proper driving, they are alright if you just want to cruise but funnily, I want to drive my car like it was designed for.
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